300 H AUSTELL ATA. LEl'lDOI'TER A. 



Anterior wings whitish^ with the base ashy, a fuscous streak before the middle, 

 bordered externally with two yellowish spots, delicately edged with black; 

 beyond is another reniform yellowish spot, edged on both sides with black ; 

 then a waved fuscous streak, bordered externally with a white one, beyond 

 which is an irregular and interrupted fuscous fascia, and the extreme margin 

 is white, with a row of interrupted black dots : posterior wings ashy-white, 

 with a dusky border; cilia white. 



Extremely abundant in woods and copses witliin tlic metropolitan 

 district, throughout the summer months. 



Sp. 5. tristrigella. Alts anticis alhis, strigis t) ibus undatisfuscis, vuiculisque 

 duabusjlavescentibus. (Exp. Alar. 7| — 9 lin.) 



Eu. tristrigella. Steph. Catal. ii. 214. No. 7419. 



Anterior wings white, with the base fuscescent; an oblique waved fuscous 

 streak before the middle, attached to which externally is a yellowish spot; 

 in the middle is a second fuscous streak, also placed obliquely, and vanishing 

 on the inner margin, with a flavescent spot near the costa ; on the hinder 

 margin is a third very distinct uninterrupted, but irregular, fuscous streak, 

 edged on each side with white, with a fine waved whitish line, adjoining 

 some minute brownish spots on the hinder margin itself; cilia ashy, with a 

 dusky line at the base : posterior wings ashy, with the margin darker. 



Less abundant than the foregoing : found within the metropolitan 

 district in June, and also in the New Forest. 



Sp. 6. pallida. AUs anticis brevis, latis, fusco-albidis, linea postica, maculisque 



fuscis, posticis albidis. (Exp. Alar. 6 — 7 lin.) 

 Eu. pallida. Curtis.— Sieph. Catal. ii. 214. No. 7417. 



Anterior wings short, broadish, pale brownish-white, with a distinct white 

 streak on the hinder margin, and two obscurer ones on the disc, one before, 

 the other behind, the middle, between which are three rather distinct 

 blackish dots or spots, two basal, one posterior : towards the hinder margin 

 is a row of black dots ; cilia ashy-white, with an interrupted fuscous line at 

 the base : posterior wings whitish. 



The two spots on the disc towards the base are sometimes drawn out into a 

 shortish black line. 



Taken in the neighbourhood of Whittlesea Mere in June ; also 

 in Monk''s wood. 



Sp. 7. lineola. Alis anticis cinereis nebulis saturatioribus, sti-igis tribus albidis 

 niacidisque nigris, posticis cinereis, lineola pallida. (Exp. Alar. 8 — 9 lin.) 



Eu. lineola. Curtis.— Steph. Catal. ii. 214. No. 7424. 



Anterior wings pale ash-colour, with paler and dusky clouds; an irregular 



