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them appears to consist in the dissimilar colour of the head, and anterior margin 

 of the thorax and anterior wings, and in the usually deeper colour of the insect. 



Found equally common, and in similar places, with Tr. pronuba. 



Sp. 5. fimbria. Alls anticis griseis vel hepaticis strigis dilutioribus, posticis 

 aurantiacis, fimbria latissivid nigrd. (Exp. alar. 2 unc. — 2 unc. 3 lin.) 



Ph. No. fimbria. Linne. — Don. vi. pi. 208.— Tr. fimbria. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. 

 p. 63. No. 6068. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings concolorous, most frequently pale griseous, the 

 latter with two oblique dusky streaks towards the base, the anterior of which 

 is abbreviated, and the posterior reaches to the inner margin ; behind the 

 stigmata is an angulated pale streak, and between it and the hinder margin is 

 an undulated one, having one or two more or less conspicuous black dots at its 

 origin on the costa, towards the apex of which are three or four minute white 

 spots ; the stigmata are frequently conjoined, are dusky with a pale margin, 

 and are placed in a darker band on the wing: the posterior wings are light 

 orange at the base, with a very broad submarginal border, the fringe being 

 orange : abdomen also of the latter colour. 



The anterior wings vary much, being sometimes nearly black, and of all inter- 

 mediate shades to the above, with the usual pale markings. 



Caterpillar very stout, ochraceous, with the head reddish, a pale dorsal line, and 

 black spots on the stigmata : — it feeds also on the primrose, violet, potato, &c. 

 and occurs in the autumn and spring ; the imago appearing towards the end 

 of June, or beginning of July. 



Unquestionably a scarce, but a diffused, species, occurring in 

 Devonshire, Norfolk, Suffolk, Derbyshire and Yorkshire, and in 

 the vicinity of London. I once took a specimen at Darenth-wood, 

 and saw two captured in Norwood : in the former wood it has been 

 taken repeatedly. " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. " York, once." 

 — W. C. Heivitson, Esq. " Near Sheffield and Buxton." — Rev. 

 F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 6. interjecta. Alls anticis sordide ferrugineis punctato-strigatis, posticis 



luteis nigro-circumcinctis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 — 5 lin.) 

 No. interjecta. Hilbner. — Tr. interjecta. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 63-, No. 6069. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings generally of a duU ferruginous, the latter with 

 various obsolete waved dusky strigae, and a double streak of black spots to- 

 wards the hinder margin, posterior to the stigmata, which latter are very 

 obsolete ; the hinder margin itself is rather paler than the rest of the wing, 

 and at the base of the ciHa is an indistinct dusky hue : the posterior wings are 

 luteous, with dusky streaks at the base, and a broad undulated black sub- 

 marginal band behind ; fringe luteous. 



Less variable than the preceding species, though inconstant in its markings and 

 colour. 



