308 HAUSTELT.ATA. T,FPI DOi'TKK A. 



I have a specimen of this very distinct species, wliich a Httle 

 resembles the foregoing, which I took at Darenth wood in June many 

 years since, and another found at Ripley in 1827- 



Sp. 18. formosa. Alls anticis cinereo-rufis, strigis duabus suhgeminatis, literaque 

 I interjecid, nigris. (Exp. Alar. 10 lin.) 



Ph. formosa. Haworth.—Steph. Catal. ii. 216. No. 7444. 



Anterior wings ashy-red, the base of a purplish tinge, and immaculate ; 

 towards the middle is a deep black slightly waved streak, widened into a 

 blotch on the costa, and narrowed on the inner margin ; this is divided, as 

 it were, into two, by a pale waved line, which becomes of a bright snowy 

 hue on the inner margin : near the hinder margin is a second, but narrower, 

 waved black streak, also divided by a pale one into two portions; between 

 these fasciae is a short black streak, resembling a Roman J, placed a little 

 obliquely, and on the hinder margin are a few black dots ; cilia and poste- 

 rior wings fuscous. 



Slightly variable in tint, some specimens being of an extremely beautiful hue. 



Taken in the lane opposite the entrance to Darenth wood at the 

 end of June and beginning of July, on the whitethorn. 



Sp. 19. obtusa. Alis anticis nigricantibus, strigis duabus sesquitertiis albidis, 



posticis albido-cinereis. (Exp. Alar. 95 lin.) 

 Ti. obtusella. Hiibnerf—Vh. obtusa. Steph. Catal. ii. 216. No. 7445.— 



PiMPELiA, Hiibner? 



Anterior wings broadish, dusky, with darker atoms, sometimes tinged with a 

 pale reddish hue, with a flexuous whitish streak near the base, and another 

 obliquely-placed and waved one near the hinder margin ; between these on 

 the costa is an abbreviated one, terminating on the middle of the disc : on 

 the hinder margin is a row of fuscous dots : posterior wings whitish-ash. 



Very rare : I have an example which was taken at Darenth wood 

 in June. 



Sp. 20. obscura. Alis omnibus fuscis, anticis atomis saturatioribus strigdque 



posticd obsoletissimd albida. (Exp. Alar. 9 lin.) 

 Ph. obscura. Steph. Nomen. 2d edit. 



Wings all dark fuscous, especially the posterior; the anterior with minute 

 darker atoms, and some very obscure whitish ones, with an almost obsolete 

 whitish waved line a little behind the middle, and on the extreme edge some 

 dusky dots ; on the disc behind the middle is an obscure ashy dot, encircled 

 .with black : cilia all fuscous. 



Also very rare : my specimen was taken within the metropolitan 

 district in June. 



