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Sp. 4. lubricepeda. AHs Jlavcscentihus strig.^i ohliqwi fract2 punctorum atro- 

 n/m, ihorace anoque hdeis. (Exp. alar. $ 1 imc. 6 — 9lin. : $ 1 unc. 8 — 10 

 lin.) 



Ph. Bo. lubricepeda. Linne. Don. xvi. pi. 568. — Sp. lubricepeda. Steph. 

 Catal. No. 6029. 



Antenna; black : male with the head, thorax, and abdomen pale bufF colour, the 

 latter with one dorsal and two lateral lines of black dots : anterior wings yel- 

 lowish or buff-colour, with a slight transverse band, of black spots near the 

 base, an oblique interrupted striga from the apex to the inner margin, where 

 it becomes rather expanded, three or four black dots on the hinder margin, 

 and a few on the centre of the costa: posterior wings rather paler, with a few 

 black spots. Female pale or whitish, with the spots on the wings somewhat 

 obsolete. 



Var. /5. Wings reddish buff, with the margins and cilia deep sanguineous, the 

 markings as usual. 



Both the colour and markings of this species vary exceedingly : in some speci- 

 mens the former is of a rich orange-buff, in others paler, and some whitish ; 

 the striga? and dots are sometimes nearly obliterated, at others they are so 

 broad and deeply marked as to become fascia; : occasionally the oblique striga 

 ceases a little beyond the middle, and becomes incurved towards the costa : 

 the posterior wings are sometimes immaculate, at others they have a central 

 waved transverse striga of interrupted dots, and several marginal spots. 



Caterpillar greenish, with pale fulvous hairs : it feeds on various herbaceous 

 plants, in the autumn, and in June the imago appears. 



A very common insect, I believe, throughout England, fre- 

 quenting gardens and shrubberies, even in the centre of the metro- 

 polis itself. "York and Newcastle." — W. C. Hciaitson, Esq. 

 " Kimpton." — Rev. G. T. Rudd. " Cambridgeshire, common." 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. 



t Sp. 5. radiata. " Alls anticis nigris macula magna lohatd variisque Jlavican^ 



tihiis." — Haw. Ent. Trans. 

 Be. radiatus. Haworth. — Sp. radiatus. Steph. Catal. No. 6030. 

 Anterior wings black, with a large lobate spot, and the nervures yellowish. 

 I regret not having it in my power to give a more detailed account of this species 



at present, but I hope in my Appendix to make amends for the omission. 



I have seen one specimen only of this species, which somewhat 

 resembles var. ^ of Sp. Menthastri : it is in Mr. Haworth's cabinet, 

 and was taken in Yorkshire. 



Genus LXXIII. — DiArnoRA* miUi. 



Pulfji moderate, descending, triarticulate, the two basal joints very hairy, the 

 terminal squamous, all of nearly equal length, cylindric, the basal one in- 



• A(«(po{<s differentia. 



