104- HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



base, two undulated pale strigae near the base, margined on each side with 

 black, two other arcuated pale strigas beyond the stigmata, followed to- 

 wards the hinder margin with a whitish waved streak, arising from three or 

 four more or less confluent black spots on the costa, near the apex ; on the 

 hinder margin is a series of dusky or black spots ; the anterior stigma is pale, a 

 little clouded with dusky ; the posterior dusky in the middle, with a pale 

 margin surrounded with black or dusky : the posterior wings bright luteous, 

 with a narrow submarginal waved band, attenuated towards the inner margin ; 

 fringe luteous. 



No two specimens of this inconstant species are found precisely similar, it would 

 therefore be fruitless to attempt to describe its varieties : it may be observed, 

 that the ground colour of the thorax and anterior wings is sometimes very pale 

 griseous, with a few darker markings, and the reniform (or posterior) stigma 

 conspicuously dark in its centre; — the space between the stigmata, and a 

 triangular spot between the anterior one and the base of the wing, are some- 

 times deep black, at others concolorous with the wings, as are the stigmata 

 themselves ; the hinder margin is occasionally destitute of the row of black 

 spots, and is sometimes darker than the rest of the wing, at others lighter. 



Caterpillar greenish or brownish, with two rows of interrupted black streaks on 

 each side, and a pale dorsal line: — it feeds upon the roots of various plants, 

 especially of the primrose, violet, auricula, cabbage, &c., hiding itself by day, 

 beneath stones, clods, &c., and coming out in the evening to feed : it is found 

 throughout the winter ; and in the spring, about April or May, it changes to 

 an elongate reddish pupa, which emerges in its final state in the beginning of 

 June, or as late as the middle of July. 



One of the most abundant of the indigenous Lepidoptera, at 

 least throughout the south of England ; and, I believe, far from un- 

 common in other parts ; frequenting hedges and gardens. " York 

 and Newcastle." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



Sp. 4. innuba. Alis anticis hepaticis, margine antici ihoraceque concoloribus , 

 posticis luteis, strigfi suhniarginali nigra, (Exp. alar. 2 unc. — 2 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Tr. innuba. Ochsenheimer. — Steph. Catal.pt. n.p. 63. No. 6067. 



Differs from the preceding by having the head, thorax, and anterior wings con- 

 colorous, without a pale anterior streak, as in that insect : these parts are in 

 general of a very deep fuscous, or rusty-brown, but the markings are throughout 

 similar in their dispositions to those of Tr. proimba, though usually they are 

 more obsolete, and in some examples nearly obliterated: the stigmata are 

 mostly dark, with a pale ring ; and, as in the last named insect, the anterior 

 one varies considerably in form : the posterior wings are similar to those of 

 Tr. pronuba. 



This is equally variable with the foregoing species, and sometimes occurs nearly 

 ferruginous. 



Ochsenheimer gives this as a distinct species from the preceding; but I think with 

 Boisduval, that it is a mere variety of that insect, as the only diflference between 



