184 HAUSTELLATA. — LKIM DOPTEUA. 



shire : I luivo taken three or four specimens near Hertford, and a 

 few at Daren th-wood, in different years. 



Sp. 8. contigua. Alis anticis rubro cinereoque nebulosis, strigd externd dentatd 

 albidd ; posticis alhidis fusco venosis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 7 lin.) 



No. contigua. Wien. Verz. — Ha. contigua. Steph. Catal. part ii. p.S\. No. 

 G202. 



A variable and beautiful species : head cinereous : thorax the same, varied with 

 hoary and brown, with an anterior striga and an obUque lateral line black : 

 anterior wings prettily varied or clouded with cinereous fulvous and brown, 

 with a whitish spot on the costa at the base and a larger one towards the 

 inner margin, then an oblique white streak arising from the anterior stigma 

 and terminating in a bifid apex near the third striga, and nearly adjoining a 

 larger patch of similar hue near the anal angle ; the posterior portion of the 

 wing is pale or cinereous, with a dentated white striga as in the other species 

 of the genus, the angulated posterior crowned with three or four deep black 

 arrow-shaped streaks : posterior wings whitish, with the nervures and hinder 

 margin fuscous. 



The colour of this beautiful insect varies greatly : in some examples the an- 

 terior wings are adorned with a brilliant purplish tint, and in others the paler 

 marks are elegantly shaded with yellowish. 



Catei-piUar green, with the head and two spots on the anterior segment of the 

 body brown ; stigmata black : it feeds on various plants, but appears to prefer 

 the broom or ragwort : it occurs in August or September, and the imago in 

 the following June. 



Found in considerable abundance in certain years in the larv^a 

 state on broom, in the neighbourhood of Coombe-wood. 



f Sp. 9. obscura. Alis anticis cinereo-fuscis, stigmatibus ordinariis, maciiUsqm; 



hasi pallidioribus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 7? lin.) 

 No. obscura. Haworth.—Ka,. obscura. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 81. No. 6203. 



" Greatly allied to Ha. remissaand its affinities, and probably a variety: anterior 

 Avings more obscure, or of a fuscous ash, with a large pale spot at the base of 

 the costa, having deep-black lineohe adjoining internally: towards the pos- 

 terior margin is a very obsolete undulated slightly pallid striga: posterior 

 wings ashy-brown." 



The above is nearly Mr. Haworth's description of this obscure insect, which, 

 from an inspection of his specimen, evidently appears to differ from either of 

 the other species, although its characters are perhaps too closely approximating 

 to determine the point satisfactorily, without the occurrence of other speci- 

 mens. 



Of the locality of this species I am not aware. 



