40 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPl'EUA. 



a red collar ; it feeds on the Purple Trefoil ( Trifolium pratense). Yellow Medick 

 {Medicago Julcuta), and Plantain: it appears early in the summer^ and spins 

 a loose web, in which it changes to a yellowish-brown pupa, in a hard reddish- 

 yellow foUiculus ; the imago is found in July and August. 



Rare near London : it was formerly taken in tolerable plenty by 

 the late Mr. Levvin, in some chalky fields, near Darenth-wood, 

 though of late years it has not occurred in that neighbourhood: but 

 the modern specimens have been found in the New-forest, Hants, 

 where the insect appears to be not very uncommon. 



Sp. 3. Medicaginis. A lis luteo-cinereis, anticis puncto albo fasciisque duabus 

 albidis,posticis strigdobliteratd albidd. (Exp. alar. $ 2unc.2 — 4lin. : ^2unc. 

 4—7 lin.) 



Bo. Medicaginis. Borkhausen. — La. Medicaginis. Curtis, iv. pi. 181. — Steph. 



Catal No. 5988. 



Antennae pale ochraceous, with a yellowish shaft : head, thorax, abdomen, and 

 wings dull rusty-chestnut, paler in the female : anterior wings with a central 

 white spot, and two whitish or ochraceous fasciae, the first abbreviated and 

 sinuated near the base, the other beyond the middle, a Uttle flexuous and ob- 

 scurely denticulated on the interior edge, the hinder margin of the wing pale 

 castaneous : posterior wings rather darkest at the base, with an obscure whitish 

 bent striga passing through the middle. 



Caterpillar ochraceous-yellow, with the incisures blackish-blue, and oblique white 

 streaks on the sides : it feeds on various kinds of Medick (Medicago), in 

 June, and in July changes to a brownish pupa, with a greenish abdomen, in 

 a brown folhculus : the moth appears in August. 



Whether this (or rather whether the indigenous specimens which are presumed 

 to be synonymous with the La. Medicaginis, Ochs.) be truly distinct from 

 the preceding, I am not, from experience, prepared to affirm ; but my friend, 

 Mr. Ingpen, decidedly bred a single example from a number of larvae obtained 

 in July, 1827, from near Brockenhurst, which did not differ in the slightest 

 degree from each other. Further observations are therefore requisite before 

 we arrive at the truth. 



I obtained a pair of this species from the collection of the late 

 Mr. Francillon ; and there are several specimens in the British 

 Museum, which were captured near Bristol: others are in the ca- 

 binets of Messrs. Stone and Ingpen, from the New-forest; those 

 in the former collection were found in the larva state near Lynd- 

 hurst, in company with La. Trifolii. 



Sp. 4. Quercus. Alis maris suturate brunneis, foemincE luteo-brunneis, fascid 

 interne arcuatu Jlavfx pone medium, anticis puncto medio albo, liturSque Jlavd 

 ad basin. (Exp. alar. $ 2 unc. 6 — 10 lin. : $ 3 unc. 1—3 hn.) 



Ph. Bo. Quercus. Linnc.~Lsi. Quercus. Sicj^h. Catal. A'^o. 5989. 



