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dark brown bar connecting the first and second cross lines; not 

 infrequently there is a black mark on the inner margin below 

 the bar, and a black mark or two in the cell above. These 

 marks are sometimes supplemented by others, and so form a 

 more or less complete black central band. The reniform and 

 orbicular stigmata are often only outlined in paler brown, but 

 they may be whitish and very distinct. Y^x,gueneei, Doubleday, 

 is pale ochreous brown, with the first line pale, interrupted, and 

 terminating in a black dot on inner margin ; and the second 

 line made up of white-edged black crescents ; the reniform 

 distinctly edged with white, and there is a slender black line 

 above the inner margin between the first line and the base of 

 the wing. Hind wings pure white, with black marginal 

 lunules. 



The caterpillar is pinkish ochreous ; usual dots not in evi- 

 dence ; skin much wrinkled and glossy ; spiracles pink margined 

 with black; head and plate on first ring pale brownish yellow. 

 Robson (Cat. Lep. of Durham, etc.) states that the caterpillar 

 feeds on grass roots, and adds, " I have known it abound in 

 the grass tufts at the foot of palings around a large mill." The 

 moth is out in August and September. At night it flies freely 

 to light, but is not known to visit any of the usual floral attrac- 

 tions or the collector's sugar. Generally distributed and often 

 common. 



Dumerirs Luperina {Lupcrina dinncrilii). 



Fore wings ochreous grey or brown, two brownish streaks 

 represent the basal line ; the space between the first and second 

 cross lines darker, and there is a darker band on the outer 

 margin ; the stigmata are i)ale inclining to yellowish, and the 

 veins below them are white. Hind wings whitish tinged with 

 darker on outer margin. Ab. dcsy/lcsi, Boisd., has almost 

 unicolorous fore wings, and this form, according to Staudinger, 



