58 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA.' 



Few insects are more decidedly local than this; yet it is found 

 in several places throughout the country : var. /3 I received from 

 Devonshire, where it was captured by Captain Blomer, who pre- 

 sented me with the specimen, accompanied with the information 

 that the insect was not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Teign- 

 mouth. Mr. Dale takes it near Glanvilles' Wootton, Dorsetshire ; 

 Mr. Hanson in Shirley-wood, near Billingbear, Berks ;^the Rev. L. 

 Jenyns at Fen Stanton and Rampton, Cambridgeshire, but says that 

 it is rare in the county. Mr. Wailes acquaints me that it occurred 

 in plenty during the past season near York, but that it has not 

 hitherto been seen near Northumberland; and the Rev. G. T. 

 Rudd, that it " occurs (sparingly) on the north-eastern rampart of 

 the ' Hiir at Amesbury, and is so local there as seldom to pass 

 round the corner, or to be found in any other part of the Hill ;"" and 

 that he found three or four specimens in Collingbourne-wood, 

 Wilts. I have caught it very abundantly in a heathy copse 

 adjoining the north end of Darenth-wood, and also near Dover ; 

 but I am not aware of a nearer habitat to London than the former, 

 although Petiver informs us, in a scarce little tract *, " that he had 

 observed it in a wood near Hampstead, in June and July ;" and Mr. 

 Witherington tells me that he has formerly taken it in plenty in 

 the lane leading from Peckham Rye to Oak of Honour-wood. la 

 Ray's time it was abundant near Braintree, in Essex. 



(1. AntenncB short ; club elongate, Jusiform. 

 1. Anterior wings somewhat triangular; posterior strongly dentated. 



Sp. 8. Tithonus. Alis disco luteo-fulvis, anticis ocello bipii pillato , posticis 



jnmctis duobus albis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 10 lin.) 

 Pa. Tithonus. Linne. — Leivin, pi. 14; f. 3, 4.— Hi. Tithonus. Steph. Catal. 



Above, the anterior wings are tawny-yellowish, with the base, anterior and 

 posterior margins, brown, with a bipupiUated ocellus towards the apex on 

 both sides ; beneath similar, but paler, especially on the hinder margin : 

 posterior wings brown, with a tawny-orange disc, and an obsolete ocellus to- 

 wards the anal angle ; beneath, the basal half tawny-brown, followed by an 

 irregular cinerascent central band, and terminated by tawny-brown clouds, 

 in which are from three to five minute white points : cilia brown, interrupted 

 by dusky : abdomen brown above, paler beneath : antennie tawny-brown. 

 The male differs in being more brilliant in colour, and in having an obhque 

 dusky patch on the disc of the anterior wings above. 



Var. H. Both sexes with a single black spot on the hinder margin of both sur- 

 faces of the anterior wings, between the ocellus and the anal angle. 



• Musaei Petiveriani centuria prima, &c. London, 1695. 



