144 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



if such a proceeding were not contrary to rule, the varieties being so con- 

 siderable that Var. y. has been lately placed, as a distinct species, in the second 

 division of the genus. 

 Caterpillar yellowish, with three sulphureous lines ; the head blue : it feeds 

 on the oak, elm, beech, hme, poplar, cherry, &c. in the summer; and the 

 imago appears at the beginning of April. 



A very common insect, found throughout the metropolitan di- 

 strict, and in other parts of the country. " Epping." — Mr. H. 

 Douhleday. " Netley."— i?f?t;. F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 8. miniosa. Alis anticis rufesceniibus, strigis tribus undatis maculisque 

 miniaceis ; posticis roseo-albidis, puncto medio strigdque subobsoletd pone 

 medium fuscescentibus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 6 lin.) 



No. miniosa. Wien. V. — Or. miniosa. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 72. No. 6136. 



Head, thorax,' and anterior wings pale ashy-red, with a mixture of gray; the 

 latter with the base and posterior margin palest, leaving a deep-coloured central 

 fascia (in which the stigmata are situated), broad on the costa, and gradually 

 narrowing towards the inner margin, and bordered anteriorly and posteriorly 

 by a paler striga, accompanied by a fuscous one ; between this and the hinder 

 margin is a slightly undulated pale striga, having a series of rufous spots on its 

 anterior margin ; the hinder margin itself has a row of minute reddish or 

 fuscous dots ; and the fringe is reddish-ash ; the stigmata are fuscous, with 

 pale rufous margin : posterior wings rosy- white, with a dusky central spot, and 

 in the females particidarly, an interrupted fuscous striga beyond the middle, 

 and a series of reddish lunules on the margin itself: the cilia deep rose colour. 



This handsome insect varies less than its congeners; there is, however, consider- 

 able diversity in the colour of different species, and the strigse vary in in- 

 tensity, and slightly in position. 



Caterpillar black, with an interrupted yellow lateral hne, the head with three 

 strigse : — it feeds on the oak and birch in May and June ; the imago appears 

 about the end of March. 



This delicately pretty species is certainly rather uncommon : I 

 have taken the larva occasionally at Daren th-wood, and once in 

 Epping Forest. " Leatherhead." — W. Raddon, Esq. 



Sp. 9. cruda. Alts anticis rufo-cinereis, atomis nigricantihus tindique adspersi.i, 

 stigmd reniforme ohscuriore griseo cincto, (Exp. alar. 11 lin. — 1 unc. 

 3Un.) 



No. cruda. Wien. V. — Or. cruda. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 72. No. 6137. 

 Albin, plate 74. J", a — e. 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings rufous-ash, the latter sprinkled throughout 

 with fuscous atoms, the spots at the base largest ; the ortUnary strigje very 

 obscure, but the bent one behind the posterior stigma most evident and 

 composed of minute fuscous dots ; between which and the posterior margin is 

 a somewhat undulated paler one, frequently composed of detached reddish 



