of the superior, characterize Clostera, of which the following 

 species are natives of this country. 



1. curtula Linn. — Wood, pi. 6.f. 12. — anachoreta Esp. 

 Reddish gray ; head and thorax with the disc intense brown; 



superior wings with 4 whitish transverse lines and a large 

 chocolate-coloured space at the apex. 



Larvae the end of September on poplars and willows; the 

 moth appears the end of April on the trunks of those trees at 

 Wanstead and in the neighbourhood of London. May, on 

 Durdham Down in abundance, Mr. House; end of May, 

 Clapham Park Wood, Bedfordshire, Mr. Dale, and Lyme 

 Regis and Brightwell Bertis, Dorset. 



2. anachoreta Vill. — Cu7't. Brit. Ent. pi. 715 cJ. — curtula Esp. 

 The larva, which is copied from Hiibner, is found upon the 



different species of sallows and poplars from June to October. 

 The moth appears in spring and summer near Paris, where it 

 is common, although it is very rare in. England ; the only spe- 

 cimens I have seen being in the British Museum, one of which 

 I have figured : they were taken near Salisbury by the late 

 Mr. Spratt. 



3. reclusa Esp. — Don. v. 4-. pi. 124'. S)- pi. 129. J] 4. — Wood, 



Superior wings cinereous, with 4 pale transverse anasto- 

 mosing lines, and a white costal spot, with a large ferruginous 

 spot at the apex: inferior wings fuscous. 



Larvae on the trembling poplar the end of September, and 

 the moth the end of May on the trunks of that tree at Epping, 

 Darent and Birch-woods, also at Burghfield, Berks, and near 

 Dublin. I took the larvae full grown on a sallow in the Isle of 

 Arran the beginning of August. Captain Blomer found them 

 on the young shoots of the white poplar in June and July, and 

 bred the moth in May and August ; and Mr. Blunt detected 

 the caterpillars under the bark of willows and poplars in Pem- 

 broke Hall Garden, Cambridge. 



4. suffusa Step.— III. pi. 16./ 1. 



Larger : superior wings with the 3rd striga united obliquely 

 with the 4th on the interior margin; inferior wings pale cine- 

 leous, with two transverse angulated fuscous strigae. 



It is not stated where this specimen was taken in the Illus- 

 trations. 



Popidiis Trcmulo, the Aspen-tree, is figured with the in- 

 sects. 



