314 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Pa. Cardui. Haworih.— On. Cardui. Steph. Catal. ii. 217, A'o. 7453 — 

 Myelois, Huhner ? 



Anterior wings glossy, snow-white, with a black dot at the base, two others 

 placed transversely before the middle, one beyond on the disc, then two 

 more a little behind the middle near the costa, followed by a repanded 

 series of smaller ones, and on the extreme hinder margin is a second series 

 of very minute ones : posterior wings fuscous, with the base and inner 

 margin white ; cilia all of a bright silvery white- 

 Variable, but from the consequence of age, some examples have the apex 

 of the anterior wings dusky, and the posterior wings whitish, with the costa 

 and hinder margin dusky. 



Rather rare : I have frequently taken it on thistles in August near 

 Kentish Town and Hampstead ; also at Hertford. 



Sp. 2. carnella. Alis anticis sauguineis, margine tenuiorejlava, posficis fuscis. 

 (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. 1 — 2 lin.) 



Ph. Ti. carnella. Linne. — On. carnella. Steph. Catal. ii. 217. No. 7454. — 

 EuRHODOPE, H'ubner. 



Anterior wings bright blood- or rosy-red, with the inner margin more or less 



broadly yellow or bufF-colour, nearly to the apex ; cilia brilliant rosy-red: 



posterior wings fuscous. 

 Slightly variable in some specimens ; the red of the anterior wings is slightly 



suffused with fuscous; sometimes only the costa; but all intermediate 



shades occur. 



Rare near London, but abundant in the vicinity of Dover : it 

 occurs at Darenth wood and Hertford in July. 



Sp. 3. sanguinella. Alis anticis sanguineis costa alba aut pallida, plagd lata 

 Jiava marginis tenuio?'is. (Exp. Alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 



Ti. sanguinella. Hvhner. — Ph. Ti. carnella. Donovan, v. v. jil. 153. f. 5. — 

 On. sanguinella. Steph. Catal. ii. 217. No. 7455. 



Anterior wings bright rosy- or blood-red, with the costa white or pale, and the 

 inner margin with a broad, but indefinite yellow splash, not extending to the 

 hinder angle : posterior whigs fuscous, with the margin darker. 



Also slightly variable, the anterior wings having frequently a brownish tint on 

 the red, and the costa being much less broadly white in some examples than 

 in others. 



Probably a variety, but certainly not the other sex, of the preceding species, 

 as I have both sexes of each kind. 



Rather local, but abundant where found, especially about Dover, 

 in the South Foreland and Castle INIeadowS;, in July and August. 



