Superior wings purplish-brown with a large black button and a few small tufts 

 at the anal angle ; a bright ferruginous line from the button towards the apex, 

 softened into the costa, head, thorax, and a large patch at the base of the inner 

 margin white. Curt. 



8. vittana Brit. Ent. 1st Edition. 



Ash-grey, superior wings with a purplish tinge, an oblique anterior space 

 more ochreous, ferruginous towards the costa, inner margin lurid-ochreous ; 

 tuft black with 2 small ones towards the apex, and several at the anal angle. 

 Autumn, New Forest and near London. 



9. spadiceana Haw. 



Ash-grey, superior wings bright bay at the base and purplish-brown towards 

 the extremity, divided obliquely and deep ferruginous at their union, inner 

 margin purplish-grey, button and minuter tufts at the posterior margin black. 

 End of Sept. to Feb., Coomb Wood, and white-thorns, Hants. 



10. subcristalana Bent. 3ISS. 



Palpi, head and collar ash-colour, superior wings beautifully variegated and 

 similarly marked to No. 11, but entirely brown, the broken angulated fascia 

 at the base and the button are very dark brown, the curved semiloop on the 

 costa is pale purplish brown, and at the apex is a lead-coloured spot. Curt. 



b. Button ochreous or orange. 



11. cristalana Do}i. S. pi. 77. f. 1. 2. — cristana Goda. 



Superior wings livid brown, clouded, piceous at the base, with a white angu- 

 lated fascia, bearing a piceous spot towards the inner margin which it does not 

 reach, and the angle uniting with an oblique white stripe reaching the costa ; 

 button ochi-eous ; palpi head and a stripe down the thorax white. 

 Beginning of August and end of September, Coomb, Birch, and 

 Darent Woods and New Forest. 



12. fulvovittana Brit. Ent. \st Edition. 



Superior wings livid brown clouded with darker marks, piceous at the base, 

 bounded by an angulated grey fascia, whitish at the costa ; inner margin bright 

 yellow-ochre ; button, palpi, and head dull white inclining sometimes to ochre. 

 Autumn, Greenhithe and New Forest. 



13. sequana Bent. MSS. 



Similar to No. 12, but smaller and having no white in the superior wings, which 

 are purplish-brown and variegated ; an angulated brown space at the base 

 spotted with black, button large and ochreous at the apex, with a short black 

 streak beyond it, the semiloop on the costa purplish-grey, apex lead-colour, 

 inner margin ochreous ; palpi, head, and centre of thorax pale ash-colour. 



14. cnnsimilana Brit. Ent. 1st Edition. 



Palpi, head, and centre of thorax white ; superior wings purplish-brown, with 

 a streak from the base, including the button, deep orange, inner margin 

 marked by one or two white lines. 

 Autumn, near Brockenhurst. 



15. sericana Hiib. Tort. pi. 14./. 83. — Desfontainana Haw. 



Cinereous-lilac ; superior wings with an orange stripe from the base including 

 the button, the oblique space above ferruginous-brown, palpi and head white. 



Autumn, pathways in Coomb and Birch Woods and Hants. 



16. Desfontainiana Eab. — fulvocristana Step. 



Cinei'eous-lilac, superior wings with an orange stripe from the base including 

 the button, the oblique space above ferruginous brown, inner margin yellow- 

 ochre : palpi and head white, centre of thorax yellowish-white. 



This is the Fabrician species, distinguished by the yellow inner- 

 margin, and taken in the Autumn near Brockenhurst. 



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