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HAUSTELLATA. LEPlDOrTERA. 



Sp. 11. advenella. Alis anticis badio ccesioque nebuhxis, capite rujo. (Exp. 

 Alar. 8 lin.) 



Ph. advenella. Zinc. Sommers. — Steph. Catah ii. 215. N'o. 7430. 



Anterior wings red-brown at the base, with a whitish streak before the 

 middle, and another flexuous one behind, the space between chestnut- 

 brown, clouded with dove colour, thence to the apex red-brown; cilia 

 reddish : posterior wings grey-brown, with whitish cilia : head and palpi 

 bright-red. 



Rare : found at the end of June at Darenth wood and in the New 

 Forest. 



Sp. 12. marmorea. Alis anticis cinei-eis, fascia nigra inter strigas duas rufes- 

 centes albo adnatas. (Exp. Alar. 9 — 9§ lin.) 



Ph. marmorea. Haworth. — Steph. Catal. ii. 215. No. 7440. 



Anterior wings ashy, with a very straight red streak in the middle, white 

 posteriorly, scarcely touching the costa, and produced externally into a 

 black waved fascia, becoming furcate towards the costa; this fascia also 

 terminates in a waved white streak, and beyond this, near the hinder 

 margin, is another slender waved red streak : on the disc is an obscure 

 dusky crescent ; cilia shining lead-colour : posterior wings brownish, with 

 darker cilia- 

 Taken, but rarely, at Coombe and Darenth wood.g towards the 



end of June and beginning of July. 



Sp. 13. Porphyrea. Alis anticis badio ccesioque variis, macula triangulai'i 

 saturate costali, strigd basalt valde obliqua, lineola apicis albis. (Exp. Alar. 

 8i lin.) 



Ph. Porphyrea. Curtis?— Steph. Catal. ii. 215. No. 7441. 



Anterior wings varied with bay and dove colour, with a dark triangular 

 spot towards the middle of the costa, a very oblique (slightly curved) white 

 streak near the base, and a short white line at the apex, whence a palish 

 waved line proceeds to the hinder angle ; on the disc are two dusky points ; 

 cilia reddish : posterior wings fuscous, with palish cilia. 



Found in Epping Forest about the middle of June, and also in 

 the New Forest. 



Sp. 14. consociella. Alis anticis purpurea cinereoque nebulosis, strigd transversa 

 baseos arcuatd nigra. (Exp. Alar. 8 lin.) 



Ti. consociella. H'ubner. — Ph. consociella. Steph. Catal. ii. 215. No. 7437. 

 — Nephopteryx, Hubner. 



Anterior wings clothed with purple-brown and deep ash-colour, with a trans- 

 verse curved black streak towards the base, edged interiorly with whitish. 



