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Sp. 2. reclusa. Alls ant ids glauco-cinerascentibus, strigis quatuor albidis 

 svbanastomosantibus, macula apicis ferrugined punctoque vnarginali albo, 

 posticis fuscis. (Exp. alar. $ 1 unc. — 1 unc. 2 lin. : ^ 1 ^"c. 1 — 3 lin.) 



Bo. reclusa. Fabricius. — Ph. anastomosis. Don. iv. pi. 124. — CI. reclusa. 

 Steph. Catal. No. 5954. 



Brown : anterior wings of a glaucous, or brownish-ash, with four subinterrupted, 

 anastomosing, whitish strigae, with a white spot on the costa, at the origin of 

 the fourth, and a reddish-brown patch adjoining, which does not reach to the 

 apex; hinder margin with an undulated series of dusky spots: posterior 

 wings dark brown : centre of the thorax anteriorly dusky-chocolate ; sides of 

 the thorax cinereous : abdomen plain brown, with the anal fascicles chocolate 

 at the apex. 



Var. (8? Plate 16. f. 1. — Rather larger, the posterior wings pale glaucous- 

 ash, with two angulated fuscous transverse strigae : the anterior wings with 

 the third striga united obliquely with the fourth on the interior margin. 



Caterpillar brown, with a broad dorsal line, yellowish at first, but after the last 

 moult whitish, the sides with a catenated series of yellow circles : head and 

 taU yeUow, or rufescent, legs black : it is found in September, and feeds on the 

 aspen {Populus tremula) : pupa brown, with the abdomen paler. 



Not a common species ; taken occasionally at Darenth and Birch 

 woods, at the end of May. " Epping, rare." — Mr. Doubleday. 

 " Once taken in Cambridge, by Mr. Dale." — Rev. L. Jevyns. 

 " Dublin."— i?^!). J. Bidzoer. 



f Sp. 3. anachoreta. Alts griseis strigis albidis, maculd apicis fusco-ferrugined 



lined undatd albd. (Exp. alar. $ 1 unc. 3 lin. ^ 1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Bo. anachoreta. Fabricius. — CI. anachoreta. Steph. Catal. No. 5955. 



Anterior wings griseous, with four whitish striga;, the third anteriorly abbre- 

 viated, the fourth flexuous, nearly white, and extending to the anterior margin; 

 the apex with a large obconic rusty-brown spot, extending to the margin of 

 the discoidal areolet, and divided by the posterior white flexuous striga; 



f Sp. 1. anastomosis. Alis griseis Jerrugineo fuscoque variis, strigis tribus 

 . albidis subanastomosantibus, thorace Jerrugineo. (Exp. alar. 1 unc 8 — 10 



lii:.) 

 Ph. Bo. anastomosis. Linne. — Stewart, ii. 252. (!) — Ch. anastomosis. Steph. 



Catal. No. 5953. 

 Wings griseous, varied with ferruginous and brown, with three whitish sub- 

 anastomosing striga; ; the apex with a rusty spot : the thorax with a ferruginous 

 central patch. 



Stewart introduces this fine species as an indigenous insect; but I presume 

 that his only authority for its admission rested upon the erroneous appropriation 

 of the name to CI. reclusa, as I have never seen an example in any British col- 

 lection. 



