186 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTEIIA. 



head glossy black ; it feeds on the Dandelion (Leontodon taraxicuni) : — the 

 imago is found in June. 



Not uncommon in the neighbourhood of London, and in several 

 other parts ; and at Dover, Brighton, in Devonshire, Norfolk, near 

 Birmingham, &c. " Kimpton." — Rev. G. T. Mudd. " Epping." 

 — Mr. H. Douhlcday. " Alderley, Cheshire."— -ffez;. E. Stanley. 



Sp. 12. leucostigma. Alls anticis cinereo-albicantihus area obsoleto ex maculis 

 suhfulvis composiia, in quo stigmata tria albicantia, iiifinio Jisso. (Exp. alar. 

 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 



No. leucostigma. Hawortli. — Ha. leucostigma. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 81. 

 No. 6206. 



The propriety of continuing this as a distinct species is extremely questionable : 

 it agrees with the foregoing variable insect, as Mr. Haworth says, " in almost 

 every thing, except being much lighter coloured; and in being fulvous or 

 subfulvous, or rusty-flavous, in every part where that is brown or black." 



Taken in Coombe-wood, and in other places with the preceding 



insect. 



Sp. 13. ochracea. — Plate 23. f. 3. Alis anticis ochraceis strigis stigmatibusque 

 ordinariis pallidis ; posticis albido-fulvescentibus, fimbrici fuscescente. (Exp. 

 alar. 1 unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 



No. ochracea. Haworth. — Ha. ochracea. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 81. No. 6207. 



Body and anterior wings ochraceous ; the latter with the ordinary stigmata 

 pale or whitish, frequently edged with a narrow black line; there is also a 

 third stigmata, as in Charaeas Graminis, which is usually pale fuscous, with a 

 black edge : the ordinary strigae, which are placed as in the two last-mentioned 

 species, are pale, but are very frequently accompanied with a series of lunular 

 black spots, as in the figure ; the fourth, or posterior one, being considerably 

 waved, with two or three elongate-trigonate dusky or black streaks towards 

 the centre of its anterior edge ; in the margin is a series of lunato-trigonate 

 spots of a dusky or black hue ; ciUa pale luteous : posterior wings fulvescent- 

 white, with a dusky border, and an obscure dusky transverse streak a httle 

 behind the middle ; cilia luteous. In some examples the wings are nearly 

 immaculate. 



Neither this nor the two preceding and the following species properly associate 

 with the true Hadena;, neither do either of them seem allied to the Polise, to 

 which genus the present remarkable and very variable species has been lately 

 removed : the singular cleft pale patch on the anterior wings is however 

 closely analogous to that on the same wings of Ha. contigua and others. 



This rare species has been occasionally taken near London, and 

 at Brighton ; and I am indebted to my friend J. Scales, Esq. for 

 a beautiful series captured by him about ten years since (in June), 

 near Beachamwell, Norfolk. 



