124 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Anterior wings dusky, with three obscure pale, transversely waved, strigae, mar- 

 gined with brownish or black, and an undulated streak of whitish spots on 

 the hinder margin; the ordinary stigmata are pale with a darker edge, the 

 posterior one is sometimes obliterated, and the teliform one is nearly indi- 

 cated by its black margin : the posterior wings are whitish, with the margin, 

 or lunule, in the middle, and the nervures dusky. 



Var. /3. Steph. Catal. I. c. — With the anterior wings pale immaculate reddish, 

 the posterior whitish, with a dusky margin. 



Var. y. Steph. Catal. I. c. — Posterior wings rufous, with very obsolete strigae, 

 the posterior stigma entirely obliterated. 



A most variable species; sometimes nearly rufescent, with all the markings 

 very obsolete ; at others nearly black, with the strigae more or less evident. 



There is frequently a quadrate dusky spot between the stigmata, and a tri- 

 angular one adjoining the anterior one : the series of whitish spots on the 

 hinder margin is frequently obliterated, and sometimes the spots are united 

 into a waved striga. The ordinary stigmata are not unfrequently edged with 

 yellowish. 



Caterpillar glossy-brown, spotted with black, with a yellowish lateral line : it is 

 found in June, and the imago appears towards the end of July or beginning 

 of August. 



Not uncommon in gardens in the vicinity of London. " Whittle- 

 sea-mere in July last." — Mr. Weaver. 



Sp. 20. fumosa. Alls nigricantibus stigmatibus duabus ordinariis Jlavo cinctis. 



(Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 

 No. fumosa. Wien. V. — Ag. fumosa. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 67. No. 6100. 



Anterior wings dusky or blackish : marked nearly as in the last, but the striga? 



more obsolete, and the third stigma wanting ; with the two ordinary ones 



distinctly margined with yellowish. 

 Probably a dark variety of the foregoing variable insect, from which it differs 



chiefly in wanting the third or teliform stigma ; a character which varies 



greatly in this genus, and can consequently be scarcely regarded as a specific 



difference. 



Taken with the preceding insect at Whittlesea-mere, and found 

 also, but rarely, near London. 



Sp. 21. obeliscata. Alls rufo-fuscis macula atra trigond ante, alterdque tetra- 

 gond inter stigmata pallida. — Haworth. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 lin.) 



No. obeliscata. Haworth.— h^g. obeliscata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 67. No. 

 6101. 



Similar to some of the numerous varieties of the last ; but the anterior wings 

 with scarcely a rudiment of strigae ; they are rufous, with a trigonate black 

 spot before the anterior stigma, and a quadrate one between it and the pos- 

 terior one ; the stigmata pale cinereous, with the teliform one elongated and . 

 margined with black ; the hinder margin of the wing is irregularly edged with 



