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lated fuscous striga; the margin itself is immaculate and the fringe is 

 dusky : the posterior wings are dusky, with the base rather palest. 

 Caterpillar dusky, with a whitish dorsal line and a slender lateral white one, 

 with a rufescent streak beneath : it feeds on the Dandelion (Leontodon Tara- 

 jcicum), and is found in May; the imago in July. 



Not common ; found however at Darenth and near Ripley. 



Sp. 11. triangulum. Alls anticis griseo-purpurascentibus atro maculatis, macula 

 nigra costali versus apicem, posticisfuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 7 — 8 lin.) 



Ph. triangulum. Hufnagle. — Gr. triangulum. — Steph. Catal. part ii. p- 69. 

 No. 6118.— Ph. No sigma. Don. xvi. pi. 562. 



Head and thorax anteriorly cinereous ; the latter posteriorly, and anterior wings 

 griseous-purple or fuscous, with four pale transverse strigae as usual, the 

 first abbreviated and basal, with a black spot at its origin on the costa, and 

 two or three at its termination towards the inner margin ; the second oblique, 

 scarcely undulated, also arising from a black costal spot, and edged exter- 

 nally with the same colour ; the third obscure, placed behind the stigmata, 

 and margined on each side with dusky; and towards the hinder margin, 

 arising from an obhque black dash, near the apex of the costa, is the fourth, 

 which is considerably undulated and edged interiorly with fuscous spots; 

 the margin itself has a series of minute dusky lunules ; between the stigmata 

 is a large quadrate black spot, and a second between the anterior stigma and 

 the oblique transverse striga ; the abdomen and posterior wings are fuscous, 

 the apex of the former rufous. 



Caterpillar reddish-ash, with a dusky line on the back and a reddish one on 

 each side, with two brownish streaks on each joint; it changes in June to 

 a brown pupa, and the imago appears towards the end of July. 



More frequently captured than the foregoing species, but 

 nevertheless not very abundant; it is most commonly found at 

 Darenth-wood, but it occurs also at Coombe and Birch- woods ; 

 near Dover, Brighton, Hertford, and Ripley. " York and Suifolk." 

 — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. " Epping." — Mr. H. Doubleday. 



t Sp. 12. depuncta. Alls grisescentibus, laturis marginalibus nigricantibus, 

 strigdque postice punctata. 



Ph. No. depuncta. Linne. — Gr. depuncta. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 69. No. 

 6119, note. — No. depunctina. Haworth.{\) 



Anterior wings cinereous or grisescent, with two black spots at the base, then 

 two or three confluent ones towards the costa; anterior stigma ovate, posterior 

 reniform, followed by an obsolete dusky striga, and a row of minute black dots, 

 with the hinder margin of the wing dusky. 



This species is enumerated by Mr. Haworth in his Prodromus, but it is not 

 included in his valuable Lepidoptera Britannica, neither have I ever seen a 

 British specimen ; I therefore infer that it is not indigenous. 



