46 LEPIDOrXERA. 



named novelty, for the separation of which from its con- 

 geners he gives ample characters. 



After carefully describing the species, Mr. Barrett ob- 

 serves that it may be readily distinguished from its congeners 

 by its pointed wings, and distinct oblique and pointed dorsal 

 blotch (darkly margined and tringular in shape). In respect 

 to the last character, herbosana is closely allied to acumi- 

 natana^ from which, however, it may be known by its golden 

 brown or pale-drab colour. 



The species, which appears to be local, has been taken by 

 Mr. J. Sang, on grassy slopes near Darlington ; and on a 

 canal bank near Saltwick, Lancashire, by Mr. Hodgkinson. 



