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Somewhat resembling Ha. satura, but less^ of a more beautiful tint, and with 

 paler and more distinct strigse, &c. : the head and thorax nearly as in that 

 insect, but of a rich chocolate-brown hue, with some ashy points, and a deep 

 blackish streak on each side at the base of the anterior wings, which latter -are 

 of a rich chocolate-brown with a rich purplish-brown tinge, with a pale patch 

 at the base, bounded towards the inner edge by a deep black lineola, the 

 usual anterior striga obsolete, the second and third distinct, pale, and edged 

 with brown, the fourth, on the hinder margin, rather suddenly curved at its 

 origin near the costa, thence to the anal angle nearly straight, except a very 

 distinct biangulated portion, forming the letter W, which is crowned by three 

 acuminated black streaks : the stigmata are edged with black, and a striga 

 of similar hue connects the second and third ordinary striga;, as in other 

 species of this genus : posterior wings cinereous, palest at the base. 



A handsome and by no means rare insect ; found througliout the 

 metropolitan district; in Devonshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, 

 &c. ; and I believe pretty generally distributed. " Epping." — 

 Mr. H. Douhleday. " Alderley, Cheshire." — Rev. E. Stanley. 

 «' Netley, Salop."— Ect;. i\ W. Hope. " Bottisham."— iJc-t;, L. 

 Jenyns. 



Sp. 7. Genistae. Alls anticis subdenticulatis argenteo-albis nebulosis, lineola basi, 

 liturd medio, maculisque duahus versus strigam posticam nigris. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 7 — 8 lin.) 



No. Genistae. Bork. — Ph. dives. Don. x. pi. 352. f. 2. — Ha. Genistse. Sieph. 

 Catal.part \i. ji. 81. No. 6201. 



Of a paler hue than the foregoing species: head and thorax pale whitish or 

 hoary-ash, the latter with a deep-black anterior and lateral line: anterior 

 wings pale silvery white, or hoary, with a clear basal spot on the costa, as 

 in the last-mentioned insect, followed at a short distance by the ordinary 

 second striga, which is of a pale hue and bounded with black posteriorly; the 

 third striga is rather obsolete towards the costa, and is composed of a series of 

 arcuated lines, the points of which extend along the nervures ; the space be- 

 tween these strigfe is clouded with brown and bears the stigmata, which are 

 rather large and pale; and behind the third striga whitish, and followed by 

 the usual undulated striga, formed nearly as in the last species, with two 

 distinct black streaks crowning the W : posterior wings whitish-ash, with the 

 margin dusky. 



The first sight of this very elegant species seems to remove it 

 from the rest of the genus ; its elongated body and more deeply 

 arcuate anterior wings giving it the habit of another group, espe- 

 cially of the XylophasIcC : but its predominant characters seem to 

 point out the present as its proper genus : it is not very common ; 

 but is found throughout the metropolitan district and in Devon- 



