120 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



with white, with a longitudinal black arrow-shaped line at the base ; the an- 

 terior stigma is rather elongate-ovate, whitish, with the centre pale ashy- 

 brown ; the posterior griseous in the centre, margined with dusky and white ; 

 the space between, as well as at the base of the anterior stigma, deep fus- 

 cous ; the teUform stigma is rather elongate, and has a slender black streak 

 extending from it ; on the hinder margin is an angulated pale striga, having 

 a few dusky wedge-shaped lineolae within; the margin itself has a row of 

 minute black dots ; on the costa, near the apex, is a fuscous spot, in which 

 are three white dots : the posterior wings are whitish, with the margins dusky. 

 The male has the posterior wings milk-white. 



My specimens of this species were taken in the neighbourhood 

 of London. 



Sp. 11. vitta.* Alts anticis rufescente-suhfuscis, margine crassiori, stigmatibusque 



albidis, strigdque posticd lineolarum nigrarum. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4^ lin.) 

 No. vitta. Hubner? — Ag. lineolata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 66. No. 6091. 



Allied to the foregoing, but smaller : head and thorax reddish-brown ; the latter 

 with one or two pale transverse streaks in front : anterior wings also reddish- 

 brown, with the costa from the base to beyond the middle whitish, its extreme 

 margin being however dark-brown, interrupted with whitish ; the central 

 nervure of the wings is whitish from the base to its union with the reniform 

 stigma, which is also whitish, with the middle ashy ; in common with the an- 

 terior one ; between the stigmata is a quadrate dusky spot, and a triangular 

 one of similar colour at the base of the anterior one ; the inner or teliform 

 stigma is very small and sometimes wanting : it arises from a pale transverse 

 waved striga ; the hinder margin is clouded with cinereous, with one or two 

 dusky longitudinal streaks, an undulated whitish striga, and a row of small 

 wedge-shaped spots on the extreme edge; the cilia ashy: male with the 

 posterior wings whitish, with a dusky fimbria ; of the female dusky, with the 

 base cinereous. 



This species varies much : in some examples the anterior wings are nearly all 

 fuscescent, with merely a vestige of the whitish costa and longitudinal streak ; 

 others have them more or less strigulated with whitish at the base, and some 

 are destitute of the posterior undulated striga : and others have the margin 

 behind the transverse striga deeper in colour than the rest of the wing. 



Caterpillar gray and shining ; found beneath stones in June. 



Rare ; but occurring in the metropolitan district : — I have taken 

 it at Darentli-wood, about the middle of August. " Near Dublin, 

 not unfrequent." — Rev. J. Bulwer. 



Sp. 12. pupillata. Alls fuscescentibus stigmatibus ordinariis subocellatis, stig- 



mateque tertio teliformi sesquialtero. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 lin.) 

 No. pupillata. Haworth. — Ag. pupillata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 66. No. 6092. 



Rather larger than the last: head and thorax as in that insect: anterior wings 



