192 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sp. 2. Pisi. Alis anticis riij'o feri-ugincoqiie variis, striga Jlavescenie nndatii 

 ad margin em posticum, macuhique ad angvlam ani. (Exp. alar. 6 — 8 lin.) 



Ph. No. Pisi. LinnL Wilkes, pi. vii. — Ma. Pisi. Stejih. Catal. part ii. p. 83. 

 JVo. 6215. 



A beautiful and extremely variable species : head and thorax ferruginous-red : 

 anterior wings the same, but variegated, and sometimes with yellowish or 

 fuscous clouds; the ordinary strigiP sometimes obscure, at others yellowish 

 with dusky margins : the stigmata rather large, pale, sometimes clouded in 

 the centre with whitish or yellowish, at others plain; towards the hinder 

 margin is a very distinct, much waved and angulate-dentate yellowish striga, 

 varying a Uttle in intensity, being occasionally of a sulphurous hue or nearly 

 white ; towards the anal angle it is dilated into a large maculieform patch : 

 ciUa ferruginous-red, interrupted with yellowish : posterior wings ochreous 

 brown, with a lunule, the nervures and margin dusky, the latter with a paler 

 striga near the anal angle: behind the middle is occasionally a transverse 

 dusky striga, and the wings are sometimes entirely of the latter hue: the 

 posterior striga is sometimes interrupted. 



Caterpillar slender red-brown or ferruginous, with yellow longitudinal stripes: 

 it feeds on the dock, vetch, pea, broom, and other papilionaceous plants, in 

 the autumn : the imago is produced in the following June. 



Very common in certain years in the larva state at Coombe- 

 wood, on Hampstead Heath and in Epping Forest : also found 

 in other places near London, and I believe pretty generally distri- 

 buted over the south of England. " Dublin."— ^^r. J. Buhner, 

 who kindly supplied me with beautiful varieties. " Matlock." — 

 Bev. F. W. Hope. « Newcastle."— TF. C. Hewitson, Esq. " Ep- 

 ping." — 3Ir. H. Douhleday. 



Sp. 3. splendens? Alis anticis rnfo-fuscis, strigis iribiis satitratioribns, externa 

 alho terminatd, stigmatibus pallidioribus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 lin.) 



No. splendens. Hilhner? — Ma. splendens.!* Steph. Catal pari ii. p. S3. N't). 

 6216. 



Rather less than the last ; which it resembles : head and thorax rufous-brown: 

 anterior wings the same, with three darker transverse stiigir, the exterior one 

 terminated by an interrupted white hue ; the stigmata rather small pale red- 

 dish-ash, the anterior immaculate, the posterior with dusky cloiuls ; the cilia 

 interrupted with cinereous : posterior wings ochreous-ash, with the margin, 

 an interrupted transverse striga, central lunule and nervures dusky; ciha fla- 

 vescent. 



A single example of a moth, which answers to Ochsenheimer's 

 specific description of Ma. splendens, was taken in Cumberland in 

 July, 1827, by Mr. Weaver, and is in my cabinet : it is the only 

 one I have seen. 



