J90 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



pale streak, and a lateral white stripe : anterior wings fuscous, with the ner- 

 vures whitish, and interrupting the ordinary strigne, which are dusky : the 

 second and third geminated, the latter composed of lunules ; the ordinary 

 stigmata are placed between these, and are of a pale flavescent-ash, with 

 darker shades, the anterior is small and circular, the posterior rather slender, 

 and somewhat lunate : there is a third stigmatiiorm spot, as in Charseas Gra- 

 minis; this is produced from the second striga, and is slightly margined witli 

 cinereous with a black edge ; towards the hinder margin of the wing is a yel- 

 lowish sUghtly waved striga, accompanied on its inner edge with dark arrow- 

 shaped spots : cilia fuscous, with two pale lines : posterior wings whitish, with 

 a deep fuscous margin, a faint undulated transverse striga, and a minute central 

 spot of the same hue : cilia ochreous : abdomen fuscous, with paler margins 

 to the segments : the base and anterior segment clothed with long white or 

 cinereous hair. 



Taken abundantly in certain years near London ; and in other 

 parts throughout the metropolitan district. Also found near. 

 Royston, Herts, at Dover, and not very uncommon near Plymouth, 

 and in Cornwall : — the female is, however, rare. " Bottisham." — 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. " Netley, not uncommon." — Rev. F. IV. Hope. 



Sp. 2. leucophaeus. Plate 24. f. 1. Alis anticis suhdentatis griseo albo fus- 

 coque variegatis ; thorace antice fascid fuscS. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 lin.) 



No. leucophaea. Wien. Verz. — He. leucophaeus. Steph. Catal. part ii. 'p. 82. 

 No. 6213. 



Head and thorax anteriorly pale ochreous ; the latter posteriorly hoary white, 

 with a few dusky atoms intermixed, and separated from the ochreous portion 

 by an indistinct dusky line (of which the rudiments only remain in the spe- 

 cimen whence the accompanying figure, which is of the natural size, was 

 designed) : anterior wings variegated with griseous, wliite and fuscous ; the 

 ordinary strigae being very indistinct, excepting the second, which is somewhat 

 obvious and regularly waved ; the stigmata are large, but rather obscure ; 

 they are ashy-brown, with dull white or hoary margins ; the posterior mar- 

 gin of the wing is nearly white, a little clouded with dusky near the middle; 

 the cilia ochreous at the base, pale whitish ash or hoary at the tip, with a 

 dusky edge, and obsoletely dentate : posterior wings ashy- white, with a dark 

 fuscous central spot and transverse striga; and a faint dusky marginal border: 

 cilia as above. 



Of this very conspicuous insect I have as yet seen but two indi- 

 genous females, which Avere captured in July, 1816, near Bristol, 

 whence Dr. Leach received them, and to whom I am indebted for 

 my fine example. 



