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mixed ; face white ; antennae white, annulated with brownish ; 

 palpi white, with a greyish spot on the under side of the terminal 

 joint; the four anterior legs brownish, spotted with white, tarsi 

 white, with brown ends to the joints ; hind legs dirty yellowish- 

 grey, tarsi brownish, with the basis of the joints whitish. 



Anterior wings five times as long as broad, pale grey, intermixed 

 with white, especially along the inner margin ; along the costa are 

 numerous oblique white streaks, those nearest the apex gradually 

 become longer and less oblique, the five last are much more dis- 

 tinct than those which precede ; in the fold of the wing, beyond 

 the middle, is a darker brown spot, and another near the anal 

 angle ; at the apex of the wing is a dark ocellus-like spot (not 

 nearly so dark as in the following species) ; cilia whitish, with a 

 curved dark line from the apex to the inner margin, followed by 

 a second line beyond it, but only corresponding to the lower half 

 of the first line. 



Posterior wings six times as long as broad, gradually pointed, 

 grey, with paler cilia. 



This species will, probably, eventually prove common ; but at 

 present it is a scarce species with us. I have once or twice taken 

 it at Lewisham, but more frequently at West Wickham Wood. 

 It is not improbable that it is a birch feeder. It is, probably, 

 often overlooked as a pale specimen of our commonest species 

 Anglicella. It occurs in many parts of the Continent ; but 

 whether all the localities given by Zeller for this species really 

 belong to it, individually, is very questionable. 



Sp. 2. Devoniella, n. sp. 



Alis anticis ochraceis, dorso albido farinata, costae strigulis 

 numerosis indistinctis albidis, ciliis-externe ochraceo-cinctis, 

 puncto apicale atro. 



Readily distinguished from any of its known congeners by its 

 ochre-coloured anterior wings. A further point of distinction 

 between it and the preceding species is the deep black apical spot. 



Head and thorax whitish, with some ochreous hairs intermixed ; 

 face white ; antennae white, annulated with pale grey ; palpi 

 white, with a faint appearance of a dark spot on the under side of 

 the terminal joint ; the four anterior legs ochreous, spotted with 

 whitish, tarsi whitish, the ends of the joints ochreous ; hind legs 

 dirty ochreous, tarsi dirty ochreous, with the bases of the joints 

 whitish. 



