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. which the posterior margin is rusty-brown, with an undulated pale striga ; 

 in the margin are a few triangular darker spots ; the cilia are blackish-brown, 

 with paler spots : the posterior wings are dusky, with pale cilia. 



This is also a rare insect, at least near London ; two examples 

 only having been taken in the metropolitan district : these were 

 found by Mr. King at Coombe-wood, in June, about fifteen years 

 since. The insect, however, appears to occur, though sparingly, 

 near Sheffield, and in other parts of Yorkshire. I am indebted to 

 Mr. Chant for a fine specimen taken by him near the place above 

 mentioned. 



f Sp. 9. rectilinea. Alis anticis griseo-cinereis fascia lata centrali margineque 



postico fusco-hrnmieo. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 lin.) 

 No. rectilinea. Hiibner? — Xy. rectilinea. Steph. Cafal. pf. ii. p. 80. No. 6194. 



Head and thorax grayish-ash, with the sides and anterior margin of the latter 

 brownish : anterior wings pale griseous-ash, with a broad centra! transverse 

 dusky-brown fascia in the middle, being narrowed towards the inner margin, 

 and bordered on each side with a darker undulated striga ; at the base, oil 

 the inner margin, is a geminated streak of similar hue, with a paler edge, 

 and towards the hinder margin some marmorated spots of similar hue, with 

 a pale waved striga at the anal angle : cilia cinereous, with darker spots : 

 posterior wings fuscous, with the margin dusky, and the cilia pale. 



Hiibner 's figure of this beautiful insect appears to differ a little from the one 

 I have referred to in my Catalogue, from the Papillons d'Europe, and which 

 corresponds most admirably with the only example I have hitherto seen, 

 which is in the possession of my friend, T. Marshall, Esq., who informed me 

 he had seen other specimens in the collections in the north :— it must not be 

 confounded with the No. rectilinea of Haworth, which belongs to the follow- 

 ing genus. 



Hitherto found only in the north of England. " Trafford Park, 

 Lancashire." — T. Mars //all, Esq. 



Genus CVII. — Hadena, Schraul-. 



Palpi short, rather slender, slightly ascending, clothed with hair and scales, tri- 

 articulate; tenninal joint rather exposed, short, subovate; the basal joint 

 curved, in genei-al rather shorter and stouter than the second, which is a little 

 attenuated towards the apex ; terminal subovate, obliquely truncate : maxiliie 

 about the length of the antennse, AntemuB short, rati:ier stout, in general 

 simple, with the under side ciUated in the males, or obscurely subserrate, with 

 a distinct fasciculus of hair on each joint within : head small, Avith a dense 

 frontal crest ; eyesl&xge; globose, sometimes pubescent : ^/io;«.r slightly crested : 

 body stout, rather elongate, very acute in some females : wings slightly deflexed 

 during repose ; anterior obscuiely denticulate on the hinder margin: in general 



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