132 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



and margined with black and yellow ; the posterior^ as usual, reniform, yellow, 

 with the middle generally cinereous, and a black patch in it towards the 

 middle of the wing ; behind the stigmata is an obscure submoniliform rufo- 

 brunneous striga, followed by abroad slightly undulated deep purplish-brown 

 fascia ; the hinder margin rufescent ; the cilia rufous : posterior wings of a 

 rufous-brown, with a dusky central spot ; ciUa bright rufous. 



In some examples the anterior wings are of a bright rosy-brown, with the 

 markings more or less obliterated : but in all the posterior stigma is yellow. 



Caterpillar brown, spotted with white, with a bluish lateral Une and black head, 

 the latter with two white streaks : it feeds on the Pea (Pisum arvense) : the 

 imago appears toward the end of July, or beginning of August. 



Also found at Coombe and Darenth-woods, and in other places 

 throughout the metropolitan district, not uncommonly. " Netley, 

 Salop."— i^^rt;. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 9. candelisequa. Alis anticis griseis glauco pruinosis, strigis atris, extimd 

 dentatd, aJteruque posticd pallida subundulatd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 hn.) 



No. candelisequa. Wien. V. — Gr. candelisequa. Stepk. Catal. part ii. p. 69. 

 No. 6116. 



Head and thorax griseous: abdomen whitish-gray: anterior wings griseous, 

 with a glaucous hue, and several black transverse strigse, of which the basal 

 one is abbreviated, the second undulated before the middle, the third rather 

 broad, arising from the costa, and passing between the stigmata, where it 

 becomes abruptly angulated, the angle pointing outwards, and terminates 

 about the middle of the inner margin ; beyond the posterior stigma is a faint 

 striga which is externally dentated, and between this and the posterior margin 

 is a very slightly waved pale yellowish-brown striga : the anterior stigma is 

 of an irregular form, and rather obsolete, the posterior reniform ; there is a 

 minute black spot in the place where the teliform stigma of the Agrotes is 

 situated ; cilia rufo-griseous : posterior wings dusky-ash, with pale rufescent 

 cilia. 



Caterpillar dusky-brown, with reddish and white streaks, and a reddish-yellow 

 head. 



My specimen of this species was taken in the larva state at 

 Darenth-wood, in May, and appeared in July, many years since. 



Sp. 10. tristigma. Alis anticis fusco-hrunneis, macula rhomboided inter stig- 

 mata altera triangulari tertifique baseos irregulari atris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 6—8 lin.) 



Go. tristigma. Ochsenheimer. — Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 69. No. 6117. 



Allied to the following : head, thorax, and anterior wings deep fuscous-brown, 

 the latter strigated as in Gra. brunnea, with a large quadrate black patch be- 

 tween the stigmata, a triangular one at the base of the anterior stigma, and 

 a third of an irregular form and variable in size and intensity, at the base of 

 the wings near the inner margin ; towards the hinder margin is an undu- 



