64 LEPIDOPTERA. 



EUBOLIA MJENIATA, Scopoli; (see frontispiece, 

 fig. 3*). A specimen of this is in the collection of Mr. C. 

 S. Gregson, who "obtained it from Mr. Reeves of Carlisle, 

 many years ago, along with a poor depuncta ; Mr. Reeves 

 told Mr. Gregson he took it himself on one of the high hills 

 near Baron Wood." The larva feeds on broom at the end 

 of May, the moth appearing in July. Readily distinguished 

 from our other British species ; it comes nearest to mensu- 

 raria, but the blueish-slaty colour of the anterior wings, the 

 straightness of the anterior margin of the central fascia, the 

 large projection from the middle of its posterior margin, and 

 the yellow outlines of these margins, would readily enable 

 any one to recognize it. 



SIMAETHIS PARIETARLE, Stainton, n. sp. At 

 the end of July, Mr. Harding found a small larva feeding 

 on the Parietaria officinalis at Deal, and forwarded some of 

 them to me for examination ; I had no conception, however, 

 that they would have produced a Sima'ethis, but anticipated 

 a species of But alls. In the month of August, the perfect 

 insects made their appearance, and are so excessively like 

 S. Fabriciana, that I have not yet been able to detect any 

 essential character in the markings ; it is, however, a de- 

 cidedly smaller and darker insect, and the costa of the 

 anterior wings is a little more bowed. From this circum- 

 stance, and the unusual food-plant, I think it better to an- 

 nounce the species as distinct, thereby calling attention more 

 prominently to it, and leaving it to future observers to decide 

 on its specific distinctness. 



EUDOREA ATOMAL1S, Doubleday, n. sp.; taken 

 by Mr. Weaver, in Scotland; expands 8| lines; it is allied 

 to E. ambigualis, but rather smaller and darker. The 

 anterior wings are fuscous, with darker markings, and with 

 some scattered whitish scales towards the base, on the disc, 

 * Expands If inch : the figure is a little magnified. 



