98 HAUSTELLATA. LEl'l DOPTER A. 



Caterpillar unknown, that of Th. Malva? having been given in lieu of the 

 proper one. 



An elegant, variable, and far from nncommon insect ; frequenting^ 

 woods, commons, dry banks, and meadovv^s, about the end of May: 

 it is plentiful on Hertford-lieath, near Bickendon and Bengeo, 

 Herts, in Coombe-wood, at Ripley, Darentli, Epping- forest, &c. 

 " In plenty near York." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. " Near New- 

 castle, common." — G. Wailes^ Esq. " CoUingbourne-wood, Wilts." 

 —Rev. G. T. Rudd. " Hartly-wood, Essex."— il/i5.s Jermyn. " In 

 the fens of Cambridgeshire, plentifully." — Rexu L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 3. Tages. Alis dcnficulatis fiiscis suhtiis griseis, jvinctis aJbidis ulbijKjiie- 



nnmerosis obsoletis utrinque. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 4 lin.) 

 I'a. Tages. Linnc. — Levin , pi. 45. /'. 3, 4. — Th. Tages. Steph. CataJ. 



All the wings above brown, more or less obsoletely clouded with ashy-gray, with 

 several obsolete scattered whitish dots, and a marginal series of white spots : 

 cilia brown, with the base gray : beneath griseous, with a few very obscure 

 whitish dots towards the hinder margin. Male of a deeper colour than the 

 female. 



Jn fine specimens the gray markings on the anterior wings above are disposed 

 in bands of zigzags, and are very distinctly marked : the costa has also a 

 bright white spot towards the tip, anterior to the band of zigzags. 



CaterpiUar bright green, with a brown head, and yellow dorsal and lateral stripes- 

 dotted with black : it feeds on the Field eryngo fEn/ngium campesfrej, and 

 Bird's-foot lotus (Lotus cornicuJafus). — The chrysaUs has the anterior part 

 tlull green, the posterior reddish. 



Not a very abundant species, frequenting dry banks, wastes, 

 commons, heaths, and woods, about the end of May and the middle 



+ Sp. 2. Malvae. Alis dentatisfuscis, cinereo undatis; anticis j)unctis fcnestratis^ 



posiicis subtus pundis albis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Pa. Malvae. Fahnci us.— Stewart. — Don, xvi. pi. 567. — Th. Malva?. Siejjk, 



Cutal. 

 Th. Malvse has considerable resemblance to Th. Tages, but is easily known by 



its dentated wings : its upper surface is brown, with waving cinereous hnes> 



and six transparent spots on the anterior wings : beneath, the posterior wings 



are dotted with white. 

 Caterpillar gray: head black, with four sulphur- coloured spots on the neck: it 



feeds on the common mallow Cllalvas^lvestris J, and Ma.rsh•msLllo^v (Althea 



rosea). — Chrysalis bluish. 

 This species has doubtless been introduced into the indigenous Fauna by 



Stewart, owing to the unfortunate misappropriation of the Linnean name of 



Pa. Malva; to Th. Alveolus by his predecessors : of the true Pa. Malvaj I have 



not seen an indigenous example, and therefore do not believe that it has ever 



been captured in England. 



