10 LEPIDOPTERA. 



7. H. pauperana, Frqi. — Expanse \ to | inch (12-15 

 mm.). — Fore wings long, narrow and pointed, white clouded 

 with grey ; basal blotch very oblique, dark brown ; before 

 the anal angle is an erect pale brown triangular spot, 



Antennae, palpi, and head black-brown ; thorax similar 

 but dusted with white ; abdomen brown. Fore wings long 

 and narrow, costa nearly straight, apex sharply angulated, 

 hind margin very oblique and nearly straight ; white much 

 rippled with faint grey clouding ; costa dotted with the 

 same ; basal blotch large, extended on the dorsal margin, 

 grey-brown, its outer edge very oblique and sometimes 

 blackened ; before the anal angle is a pale brown triangular 

 spot, edged by two or three black dots ; of these a few more 

 lie in the hinder area; cilia grej^-brown. Hind wings pale 

 grey-brown with whiter cilia. Female similar. 



Underside of the fore wings grey-black, with two or three 

 whitish costal dots. Hind wings leaden white. 



It is stated by Mr. W. Warren that, in a perfectly fresh 

 specimen, the margins of the markings were marked by 

 slvjlithj raised scales, as in some species o^ Pcronea. 



On the wing in April and the beginning of May. 



Larva apparently undescribed. Herr Schmid says " In 

 June on field roses," and Mr. Thurnall suggests " In the 

 young fruit and flowers of wild sweet briar {Rosa ruhiyinosa)." 



This also is a species very scarce in this country, and of 

 which I have no personal knowledge in a living state. It is 

 taken rarely, in the late afternoon or early evening, among 

 wild rose on chalk-hills, and in lanes, but is said to have been 

 found flying in the early morning. Mr. B. A. Bovver records 

 the capture of about thirty specimens in the year 1891, 

 either by beating, or flying round rose bushes late in the 

 afternoon. Apparently confined with us to the south-east 

 corner of England — the counties of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, 

 and Essex — and in them exceedingly local ; but abroad, 

 though perhaps not very common, known to occur in Ger- 



