122 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



sect; the stigmata are large and pale ash; the anterior one is round, and the 

 space between them is sometimes dusky ; the third stigma is dusky, with a 

 black edge ; on the hinder margin is a slightly varied palish striga ; the margin 

 itself has a row of minute black spots ; the fringe is pale-brown : posterior 

 wings of the male whitish, with the margin brownish ; of the female pale- 

 ashy, with the margin dusky : abdomen pale cinereous. 



As in the rest of the genus, scarcely two specimens occur precisely similar. 



Caterpillar pale gray, with paler longitudinal lines : it feeds on corn in May, and 

 the imago appears in June or July. 



Decidedly an uncommon species, especially near London. " Whit- 

 tlesea-mere in July last." — ]\1?\ Weaver. 



Sp. 15. Hortorum. Alts ayiticis cinereo-nigricantibus, stigmatibus ordinariis 

 rujescentibus nigro-marginatis, posticis fuscescentibus, margine venisque sa- 

 turioribus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 5 lin.) 



Ag. Hortorum mihi. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 67. No. 6098. 



■Closely resembling the last : anterior wings deep dusky-ash, with four transverse 

 paler strigse, the three anterior of which are edged with dusky, placed nearly 

 as in that insect, but the posterior one is less undulated, and has a row of 

 elongated dusky or black streaks attached to the anterior edge as in A. cu- 

 neigera : on the hinder margin is a row of minute black spots : the usual 

 stigmata are faintly rufescent, margined with black, the third is very slender, 

 and the black margins alone are visible : the posterior wings are fuscous, with 

 the nervures and margin darker : body deep fuscous. 



The darker posterior wings and brown abdomen at once distinguish this from 

 the preceding, unless it should prove to be a mere suflfused variety, which I 

 think probable. 



The only specimens I have observed of this species were taken in 

 August last, at Whittlesea-mere : they seem very distinct from the 

 preceding species, which they most resemble. 



Sp. 16. ocellina. Alls anticis nigricantibus, vittd longitudinali abbreviata cine- 

 rascenti, maculis duabus atris, strid arcuatd alterdve posticd dentatd, cine- 

 rascentibus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 



No. ocellina. Wien. V. — Ag. ocellina. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 67. No. 6095. 



Somewhat less than the foregoing : anterior wings dusky, or rufescent, with a pale 

 abbreviated longitudinal streak at the base; an undulated black transverse 

 striga before the anterior stigma, an incvirved pale one behind, and a dentated 

 one near the hinder margin, the latter accompanied anteriorly with some black 

 streaks ; the stigmata slightly rufescent in the middle, with a narrow pale- 

 ashy margin : fringe rufescent : posterior wings dusky, with the base cinereous 

 in both sexes, palest in the male. 



Also a variable insect, but less so than its congeners. 



Once captured at Darenth-wood, and I believe a single specimen 



