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or two tints oC ificcii, pale brown, reddish brown, or even dark brown ; the 

 raised band is dotted with white on a black or reddish ground, according as 

 the ground-color of the caterpillar is dark or liglit. There is a niedio-dorsal 

 stripe of a reddish tint, and an olive-green stripe in the region of the spiracles. 

 It feeds on the whortleberry {Vaccinium vit/s-idaa), and in confinement it 

 will thrive on sallow. For these few jiarticulars we are indebted to Mr. 

 Hellins."— Newman's British Moths, 191. 



Petrophoea diversilineata Hilbner. Plate 8, figs. 53, 54. 



Pelroplwra (tiirrsiliiicala Hiiliu., Samml. Exot. Scbiu., i, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1806. 

 Eiiphiia diva-silincata Hiibn., Vevz., 336, 181S. 

 Ckhria dinrsiliiieata Guon.! ! ! , Phal., ii, 475, 1857. 



W:ilL-. ! ! ! , Lep. Br. Mus., xxv, 1389, 1862. 

 Cidariii ijrac'di mata Giieri., Pbal., ii, 476, 1857. 



30 c? and 10 9 . — Palpi long. Fore wings falcate ; outer edge almost 

 angular. Hind wings slightly scalloped. Body and wing.s of a uniform 

 ochreous-yellow; palpi dark in front of the liead, tipped with dark-brown. 

 Fore wings unitbrmly ochreous ; a curved, basal, rust-brown line, denticu- 

 lated on the veins; beyond, two parallel, nune distinct, concolorous Hues, 

 the inner a little wavy, directed obliquely to the inner edge; the outer makes 

 a right angle in the submedian space, crosses the inner line, forming a broad, 

 triangular enclosure on the inner edge of the wing; beyond is a broad 

 space, just beyond the middle of the wing, usually filled in with a purplish- 

 brown tint, disappearing before reaching the costal space; sometimes there 

 are two central lines in this space, converging a little below the median vein 

 and firming large ringlets ; this mesial space is bounded externally by a 

 (lark, rust-brown line, which ends at the same distance from the base of the 

 wing both on the costa and inner edge; in the first median space it forms a 

 large, sharp projection ; beyond is another concolorous line, which curves 

 inward to where it is usually (not always) interrupted by the projection 

 of tlie other line, and thence goes straight, though zigzag in its course, to the 

 inner edge of the wing; a similarly-colared, more or less zigzag, oblique, 

 apical line extends to the middle of the wing, opposite the projection; the 

 edge beyond the lines either clear-yellow or filled in with lilac-brown ; a 

 ^mall discal dot. Hind wings clear, a little jialer 1 ban the fore wings, with 

 a faint discal dot, sometimes absent; in the outer third of the wing an 

 ungulated, faint, violet -brown line, edged externally with silver, a heavier, 



