characteiized species of British Moths. 115 



size of P. fusca, Haw., but of a pale mouse-colour with a slight 

 ochreous tinge, and the upper wings are narrower wdth a pale 

 irregular transverse line, a little more than one-third from the 

 base, but it does not seem to reach the costa, and there is an in- 

 distinct blackish dot on the disc : the under-wings are pale smoky 

 with a nacreous silky surface : the antennae are very slender and 

 apparently simple, but it is a very old and imperfect male which 

 I took when residing in Norfolk. 



24. Genus 994, 6. Eudorea Portlandica, a name given to this 

 moth by Mr. Dale, from his finding it only in the Isle of Port- 

 land. It seems to me to be the E. phcBoluca^ described and figured 

 in the Linn. Entom. vol. i. p. 306. No. 15. fig. 13. 



25. 6^. E. concinnella, Curt. Cab., expands 7 lines, being 

 much smaller than E. Mercurella, Linn., which it most resem- 

 bles : it is however entirely of a dark brown ; nearly one-third 

 from the base of the upper wings is a curved whitish striga, and 

 intermediate between it and the shoulder is another ; on the disc 

 is an indistinct black Q , beyond it an obhque white line, sud- 

 denly curved near the costa ; a line of black dots at the base of 

 the cilia, forming a little black spot near the middle, surrounded 

 by gray scales, extending irregularly along the posterior margin : 

 under-wings pale brown, whitish at the base. 



I cannot remember where I took this distinct and unique spe- 

 cimen, unless it was at Bournemouth. 



26. 8. ^./meo/fl, Curt.Brit.Ent.fol. 170. It expands 8 lines, 

 is white, head, palpi and thorax grisly ; abdomen fuscous, edges 

 of segments white : superior wings rather narrow, clouded with 

 brown ; the base is brown with an oblique black and white costal 

 stripe, reaching only half across and forming on the costa, with 

 the next, a white patch ; this second line is white, very tortuous 

 and margined with black externally ; to the centre loop is attached 

 a black oval spot ; above it, but nearer the middle, is a small white 

 dot in a black ring, and beyond it a black p, white in the 

 centre ; towards the hinder margin is an oblique sinuose white 

 striga with a large curve, filled internally by a brown patch, and 

 externally at the costa and opposite extremity are two other 

 brown patches, the latter with a black arrow-head ; these leave a 

 semi-oval white space on the hinder margin, at the centre of which 

 is a small brown spot bearing black pointed dots extending along 

 the cilia, which is spotted black : under-wings fuscous-white, 

 with a transverse pale sinuated line nearly parallel to the mar- , 

 gin, as noticed in * Brit. Ent.' — Wood's fig. 1446 is not good. 



27. 9. E. Resinea, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 499. Mr. Stephens 

 having described this species under the above title in 1834, I 



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