nus of one of our species from the more ample wings and 

 smaller abdomen of the male ; it is named 



Phigalia. 



1 . pilosaria Hilb. -pi. S^.f. 1 76. — Wood 18. 465. — pi umaria Esp. 



— pedaria Fab. 

 Branches of the antennae long and fine in the male ; dull 

 white, head, thorax and abdomen cinereous; wings very 

 ample, freckled with brown, superior with 4 sinuated va- 

 riegated strigae ; inferior with 2 and much paler : 1 and | 

 inch to 1 inch 1 1 lines expanse. 

 End of March, trunks of trees and paling near London, 



Cheshire and Salop. The larva feeds on the oak, birch, black- 



and white-thorns, and the elm. 



Nyssia. 



2. hispidaria Fah. — Wood 18. 466. — Ursularia Don. 13. 447. 

 Antennae ochreous, head thorax and abdomen brown ; su- 

 perior wings paler, freckled, with a curved striga near the 

 base, another bicurved beyond the middle, with a spot or 

 indistinct striga between them, and a stronger denticulated 

 one near the cilia, which are spotted ; inferior wings pale, 

 with an obscure striga : expanse 1 5 lines. 



End of February, trunks of oaks and sallows ; 28th January 

 Mr. Raddon ; 10th March bred by Mr. Cocks of High Bick- 

 ington; end of September Weston on the Green, Mr. Mat- 

 thews; also at Birch and Coomb Woods and Richmond Park. 



The N. Tauaria Newm. Ent. Mag. seems to be merely a 

 variety ; it was taken in June at Leominster. 



3. zonaria W. V.—Curt. Brit. Ent. pi 615 S-^' ? • 



This beautiful addition to our Lepidoptera was first disco- 

 vered near the Black-rock, on the Cheshire side of the river 

 Mersey, in April 1829, by a friend of Mr. S. Carter, to whom 

 I am indebted for my specimens ; and he informs me that in 

 February 1832 a male was taken near Warrington, that last 

 March he found many pairs on the sands and resting on the 

 grass near the Black-rock. It is recorded also in the Ent. 

 Mag. that Mr. N. Cook took a male on rushes about half a 

 mile below the Black-rock, near Liverpool, in September 1832, 

 and several of both sexes the middle of the same month in the 

 following year: in February 1833 Mr. B. Cooke bred a fe- 

 male, and about the same time a considerable number of the 

 moths were found; and during the same month in 1834 they 

 were so abundant that he could scarcely walk without tread- 

 ing on them. 



The caterpillar lives principally upon the Achillea Millefo- 

 lium (pi. 19.), Salvia pratensiSf and Centaurea jacea, and I 

 hope that the figure of it from Hubner may lead to its disco- 

 very in this country. 



The Plant is Veronica hederifolia, Ivy-leaved Speedwell. 



