188 HAUSTELLATA, LEPIDOPTERA. 



the Lychnis dioica and Cucubalus bacci ferus : the imago appears towards 

 the middle of June. 



Far from a common insect : it has however been captured several 

 times at Darenth-wood, where I have twice met with it in the lane 

 leading from the village : it has also occurred in Bedfordshire, and 

 near Cheltenham. " Warwick and Allesley." — Rev. W, T. Bree. 



Sp. 16. capsincola. Alis anticis cinereo fuscoque variis, strigd posited dentaWi 

 alhd, stigmatibus albo vmrginatis. (Exp. alar. I unc. 3 — 4 lin.) 



No. capsincola. Wien. Verz. — Ha. capsincola. Steph. Catal. part \\. p. 82. No. 

 6210. 



Not very dissimilar to the preceding species : head and thorax pale ashy-brown, 

 with hoary spots, and transverse and longitudinal dark streaks; anterior wings 

 of an ashy-brown, with a greenish shade, varied with dusky ; the usual ab- 

 breviated striga at the base whitish; the second and third strigje pale- fuscous, 

 edged with dusky, with a whitish spot at their origin on the costa ; the fourth 

 or posterior striga white or whitish, slightly undulated and triangulated to- 

 wards the costa and near the middle; stigmata obKque, slender, margined by 

 a white line and rarely united; cilia brown, interrupted with pale ochreous- 

 ash : posterior wings fuscous-ash, with the margin and a slender central lunule 

 dusky ; cilia ashy-brown, with a pale streak at the base. 



Caterpillar greenish, with blackish spots, and lateral streaks, and a whitish line 

 beneath the latter; the head glossy-brown: it feeds on the Lychnis dioica: 

 the imago appears towards the end of June or beginning of July. 



Not uncommon in gardens, and weedy banks throughout the 

 metropolitan district : it also occurs in Devonshire, South Wales, 

 Norfolk, &c. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 17. Saponarise. Alis anticis rufescente-fuscis strigisgriseisreticulaiis, posticis 



ochraceo-fuscis fimbria fascci. (Exp. alar. 6 — 8 lin.) 

 No. Saponarist;. Borkhausen. — Ha. } SaponariiE. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 82. 



iVo. 6211. 



A very distinct species ; head brown : thorax ashy-brown, with darker stripes, 

 and yellowish or griseous tippets ; anterior wings brown with a rufescent tinge, 

 with the nervures and ordinary strigae griseous ochreous- white, the basal striga 

 deeply angulated, the second abruptly angulated close to the anterior stigma, 

 and then formed into an arch, the crown towards the base of the wing ; the 

 third striga placed as usual, and the fourth is rather abruptly angled near the 

 costa, and then runs nearly parallel with the hinder margin, tlie usual VV mark 

 being very slightly indicated ; on the margin of the wing itself is frequently 

 an interrupted row of dark or black lumdes: stigmata ashy-brown, with pale 

 margins : cilia brown, interrupted by griseous : posterior wings ochreous- 

 brown with a dusky margin : ciHa pale. 



