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Head shining yellowish-brown ; face paler, more or less yellow- 

 ish ; palpi yellowish-brown, the base of the terminal joint and the 

 apex whitish ; antennae brown, with grey annulations ; thorax 

 yellowish-brown, beneath spotted with sulphur; abdomen grey, 

 beneath whitish. The four anterior legs have the femora and tibiae 

 dark brown, the tarsi at the base snow-white, otherwise brown, 

 and the end joints with the brown prevailing more over the white ; 

 the posterior legs have the femora at the base externally sulphur 

 yellow, otherwise brownish, tibiae and tarsi grey, with the basal 

 halves of the joints white. 



Anterior wings rather pale yellowish-brown, with hardly the 

 slightest tinge of lilac colour. The markings consist of four 

 sulphur yellow spots, margined with dark brown. The first 

 costal spot is before the middle, and is narrow, rounded, obliquely 

 placed, and reaching half across the wing ; the second costal spot 

 before the apex is shorter, and is less obliquely placed; beyond 

 the apex there appears in the cilia a very faint, pale spot. The 

 first spot on the inner margin lies nearer the base than the first 

 costal spot ; it forms a blunt triangle, and has its longest side on 

 the margin. The second lies near the anal angle, almost midway 

 between the first and second costal spots ; it is triangular pointed, 

 and with its apex rather turned towards the hinder margin. The 

 cilia round the apex of the wing are traversed by several dark 

 shady- lines, and have the ends brown, those of the inner margin 

 are grey. 



Posterior wings rather broad, pointed, not long-pointed, grey, 

 with paler cilia. 



The above description is compiled from that of Zeller, in the 

 Linnaea. 



The only British specimen yet known is that in Mr. Stephens's 

 extensive collection, found by Mr. Stephens " in June, 1827, at 

 Ripley." 



Zeller says that it " occurs in Bohemia, near Reichstadt ; in 

 Silesia, near Glogau ; and in Livonia, near Kokenhusen ; every- 

 where scarce. 1 have hitherto only taken five specimens ; one of 

 these on the 18th June, amongst mixed bushes, towards sunset. 

 I found a dead male, in a box in which I had furnished the larva 

 of Tortrix Wahlbomiana, with a leaf of Cirsium lanceolatum ; 

 whether the larva had lived on it I know not, since the leaf had 

 already been thrown away before I observed the dead Gracilaria. 

 Madame Lienig took the species in May, on the margins of fir 

 woods." 



As Mr. Stephens and Herr Zeller concur in giving June as the 



