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rbicular is oblong and oblique, the median 

 ring-ray on which they rest is quite white, 

 nd emits two white branches, there is also a 

 perfectly white wing-ray parallel with the 

 bind margin : the hind wings are extremely 

 ale wainscot-brown, slightly clouded towards 

 lie hind margin in the fema'e : the head and 

 liorax are testaceous brown ; the body pale 



iscot-brown. 

 Two specimens of the MOTH are said to have 

 een taken in the Isle of Portland by Mr. 

 eley ; one of them is in Mr. Bond's collec- 

 ,ion. (The scientific name is Luperina Du- 



lii. ) 



Obs. The specimen figured and described 

 one of a fine and valuable series from the 

 ontinent, kindly lent me by Mr. Doubleday. 



493. GUENEE'S LUPERINA. " Thorax pale 

 iseotis, mixed with white : body very pale : 

 wings pale testaceous, irrorated with black 

 d white atoms an indistinct interrupted 

 le striga before the middle then a second 

 uated striga composed of black lunules, 

 ged externally with whitish ; the first striga 

 inates in a rather conspicuous black dot 

 the inner margin of the wing, the ordi- 

 discoidal spots are placed between these 

 igfe, the reniform one being distinctly edged 

 ith white. Between the black dots on the 

 ner margin of the wing and the thorax is a 

 slender black line. Hind margin pale testa- 

 ceous, with an indistinct undulating pale line, 

 mmencing at a pale patch on the costa near 

 e apex. A distinct row of black marginal 

 miles ; fringe spotted with deep and pale 

 fuscous : on the costa near the apex are two 

 oblique white spots : hind wings pure white 

 in both sexes, with black marginal lunules ; 

 antennae of the male rather strongly ciliated. 

 " Three specimens of this insect were taken 

 in Wales in the autumn of 1862; it is closely 

 allied to Luperina testacea, L. Nickerlii, and 

 L. Desyttesi, but is apparently distinct from 

 either. The Rev. Henry Burney most kindly 

 sent me his pair for examination, and allowed 

 me to forward one of them to my valued 

 friend, M. Guenee, who informs me that it is 

 identical with a specimen in his cabinet taken 



in France, which is described in his works as 



i 'Luperina testacea, var. A,' accompanied by 



j a remark that it will probably prove a dis- 



i tinct species. In this remark I coincide, and 



with the consent of Mr. Burney, I propose to 



name it after my friend. 



" It differs from L. testacea in the thorax 

 and abdomen, being slenderer, in the peculiar 

 mottled appearance of the fore wings, and in 

 the absence of the three round white dots on 

 the costa, near the apex, whicli are so dis- 

 tinct in L. testacea and L. NicJcerlii. The 

 hind wings in both sexes are of a much 

 purer white than in L. testacea." 



Of this species I have no knowledge what- 

 ever bejond what is conveyed in Mr. Double- 

 day's original description, which I have copied 

 from the .Entomologists' Manual for 1864, p. 

 123. (The scientific name is Luperina Gueneei.) 



494. The Hedge Eustic (Luperina Cespitis). 



494. THE HEDGE RUSTIC. The palpi are 

 inconspicuous, they scarcely project beyond 

 the head ; the antennae are ciliated in the 

 male, simple in the female ; the eyes are 

 very hairy : the fore wings are ample, 

 straight on the costa, and blunt at the tip ; 

 their colour is opaque bistre-brown, the 

 discoidal spot clearly mapped out in white, 

 and there are three distinct transverse lines, 

 the first is before the orbicular ; the second 

 beyond the reniform ; and the third, which is 

 broken up into crescentic spots, is parallel 

 with the hind margin ; each of these lines is 

 double, that is, consists of two portions, the 

 one darker, the other paler than the ground 

 colour ; the first has the pale portion towards 

 the base, the second and third towards the 

 hind margin ; the hind wings of the male are 

 very pale, almost white, sometimes with one, 



