126 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



row of minute white dots, and several large spots of the same on its sides, 

 with two black ones at the base : antennae brown, with the tip white. 

 Caterpillar olive-green with a yellowish dorsal line, and on each segment, on 

 both sides, a large pear-shaped spot of light yellow edged with black ; the 

 stigmata are also yellow bordered with black, and below them is a yellowish 

 Une : the legs are black, the prolegs and tail of a rosy hue : it feeds on the 

 yellow lady's bedstraw f Galium verumj, wild madder (Galium niol/ugoj, 

 and dyer's madder (Rubia tinctoriumj. The chrysahs is dark brown. 



De. Galii has been occasionally found in the neighbourhood of 

 London. About twelve years since I saw a living specimen, which 

 was taken in the beginning of June on some palings in the City- 

 road, and a second was detected near the same spot a year or tw^o 

 back. M. Harris once found the caterpillar at Barnscray, near 

 Crayford, Kent, but mistook it for that of De. Euphorbise, not being 

 aware of the existence of De. Galii. It has several times occurred 

 in the west of England. " Near Penzance in Cornwall, and Kings- 

 bridge, Devonshire." — Dr. Leach. 



Sp. 3. hneata. Plate 12. f. 1. — Alis anticis virescentihus, fascia hngitudinuli 

 subundulatd, striisque obliquis albidis, posticis nigris fascid lata rubra nebulosu. 

 (Exp. alar. 3 unc. 3 hn.) 



Sp. lineata. Fabricius. — De. lineata. Steph. Catal. 



This species bears some resemblance to the last, upon a transient view; but its 

 distinction is sufficiently evident: the anterior wings are pale olive-brown, 

 with a narrow slightly-undulated ochraceous longitudinal vitta placed ob- 

 liquely from the inner margin to the apex, intersected obliquely with a series 

 of whitish hues following the direction of the nervures, and a subtriangular 



Sp. 4. Daucus. Alis anticis fusco-cinereis, fasci ft longitudinali rectfi ochraced, 

 striisque obliqnis albis, posticis nigris fascia angustd rubrd. (Exp. alar. $ 

 2 unc. 5 lin. : $ 2 unc. 9 lin.) 



Sp. Daucus. Cramer. — De. Daucus. Stepli. Catal. — Sp. lineata. Don, vi. pi. 

 204.. f. 1. 



Allied to, and hitherto confounded by English writers (except Dr. Leach, who 

 noticed the fact in the Edinburgh Encyclopedia) with the preceding insect, 

 but very distinct therefrom : the anterior wings are plain cinereous brown, 

 with a longitudinal straight ochraceous streak reaching nearly from the inner 

 base to the apex, which is obliquely cut by several slender white lines on the 

 nervures ; on the disc is a small whitish dot ; the hinder margin is of an ashy- 

 gray: the posterior wings black, the base and a broad hinder margin being of 

 that colour, with a narrow uniformly-coloured red central fascia: head and 

 thorax ashy-brown, with a white lateral line on each side ; the latter with four 

 other longitudinal white lines on its (Use, the two inner with an abbreviated 



