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grey. App. anal. sup. $ cylindrical, long ; the 



thickened apices bent outwards and upwards (Brauer, 



N. A. fig. 38). 

 Hab. England, coll. Steph. (mixed with P. grandis) ; 



coll. Curtis ; coll. Linne (but not the type specimen) ; 



coll. Banks. 

 Length 9 lin. ; exp. 18 lin. 



3. P. varia, F.; Steph. 111. 206,4; Curtis, B. E. 592; 



Walk. Cat. 5, 3. 



Antennas testaceous, annulated with black; thorax 

 piceous, above with grey and black hairs ; abdomen 

 testaceous; legs testaceous, tibiae and tarsi of the 

 anterior and intermediate legs strongly annulated with 

 black ; anterior wings grey, spotted with brown, witli 

 two white dots ; posterior wings grey, the margin 

 with a blackish border. App. sup. $ short, folia- 

 ceous, horizontal, bordered with long yellow hairs 

 {black beneath), the apex beneath black ; App. inf. 

 long, cylindrical, curved upwards, with a short tooth 

 before the apex (Brauer, N. A. fig. 36). 



Length 7 lin. ; exp. 14 lin. 



Hab. in June, not rare near London, Norfolk, Cam- 

 bridge, South Wales, Devonshire, Darenth, Bot- 

 tisham, Cumberland, Parley, Uggmere, and the 

 Trossachs in Scotland. 



f f The posterior branch of the ramus thyrifer of the 

 anterior wings simple in both sexes. Sub-genus Tri- 

 chostegia, Kolenati. 



4. P. minor, Curtis, B. E. 592; Steph. 111. 207, 5; Walk. 



Cat. 5, 1 ; P. mixta, Burm. ; P. tortriceana, Ramb. 

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