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brownish, with an abbreviated transverse striga at the base, an undulated one 

 before the middle, and an arcuated one behind, cinereous, margined with dusky 

 or black ; and on the hinder margin is an undulated one, with a conspicuous 

 angle at the costa, and two towards the middle of the hinder margin ; the space 

 between the second and third strigae is rather paler than the rest of the wing, 

 and bears the usual stigmata, of which the two ordinary ones are cinereous, with 

 the centre dusky, and the third dusky, with the margin black : near the base 

 of the wing is a dusky spot, and a few streaks of the same hue appear towards 

 the middle of the posterior undulated striga ; and the posterior of the wing 

 behind the latter is nearly of an uniform brown ; ciHa brown ; posterior wings 

 cinereous, with the hinder margin deepest ; in the male rather whitish at the 

 base. 

 The stigmata are sometimes rufescent, with the centre dusky: — I possess one 

 specimen, which may belong to a distinct species, with the usual stigmata very 

 large and rufescent, and having a large dusky-ferruginous subocellated spot 

 at the base of the inner margin of the anterior wings, as in Ag. valligera. 



Found near London in July, but very rarely : also in Devonshire 

 and at Whittlesea-mere, 



Sp. 13. aquilina. Alis anticis cinereis nigra strigosis, casta bast nigra, apice 



alba-punctatd ; posticis maris albidis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 lin.) 

 No. aquilina. Wien, V. — Ag. aquilina. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 66. No. 6094. 



Closely allied to the two last : the anterior wings cinereous, with three transverse 

 waved black strigae, between the two posterior of which the stigmata are 

 placed, the anterior of which is rather elongate-ovate, dusky-brown in the 

 centre, with a cinereous margin, the posterior the same, but with an outer 

 black edge ; on the hinder margin is an vmdulated whitish, or cinereous striga, 

 and the extreme edge bears a row of minute black dots ; the costa is spotted 

 with black at the base, and with white towards the tip ; the posterior wings of 

 the male are whitish, of the female ashy, with the base palest. 



This varies in the colour and intensity of the wings and markings. 



Caterpillar cinereous, sprinkled with dusky on the sides, the head reddish : it 

 feeds on the Bed-straw (Galium verum). 



Not common : found occasionally in the neighbourhood of London, 

 and in Glamorganshire : about the middle of July. 



Sp. 14. Tritici? Alis anticis cinereis stigmatibus ordinariis pallidioribus 

 undque nigricante, posticis maris albidis margine fuscescente. (Exp. alar. 1 

 unc. 4 — 5 lin.) 



Ph. No. Tritici. Linne ?— Ag. Tritici } Steph. Catal part ii. p. 67. No. 6094. 



Size of the last, which it greatly resembles : anterior wings cinereous, sometimes 

 a little tinged with reddish ; with a short dusky streak at the base, which is 

 slightly paler than the rest of the wing, a faint transverse ashy striga before 

 the anterior stigma, and a curved one behind the posterior, as in the last in- 



