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its posterior edge undulated and receding to the dorsal margin : this 

 patch is followed on the costa by a dark grey streaky cloud, more or 

 less produced in streaks and patches to the dorsal margin, leaving on 

 the latter a white space next the basal patch of greater or less ex- 

 tent ; the costa is streaked obliquely throughout its whole course 

 with deep fuscous to beyond the middle, the remainder with fuscous 

 and white ; the apical streaks produced ; at the apex is a ferru- 

 ginous brown eye-like spot, which is more or less continued down 

 the apical margin ; the anal angle is occupied by a large ocelloid 

 patch, enclosing two lustrous pale leaden-grey clouds, edged with 

 white, with three or four black spots between ; at the inner part of 

 this patch, near the dorsal margin, are two somewhat trigonate black 

 spots edged with white, with an interrupted, curved, and irregular 

 streak of same colour, forming its inner edge ; its exterior limit 

 towards the apex is indicated by other black spots, intermixed with 

 brown. Apical scales deep fuscous, with pale bases. Cilia brown, 

 Avith ochreous bases, both merging into white at the anal angle. 

 Posterior wings clothed with pale fuscous scales (darker towards the 

 apex) upon a grey ground. Marginal scales dark fuscous, with 

 straw-coloured bases. Cilia with the middle grey, base and apex 

 straw-colour. Abdomen shining fuscous, the caudal tuft dull straw- 

 colour. $ Exp. al. 8-10 lin. In general colour darker than the rf . 



A common insect, varying in size and in the intensity of the 

 colours of the markings. It resembles Pardia tripunctana, but 

 is closely allied to Sp. Roscecolana. From the former it may be 

 distinguished by the brighter colours and more speckled appearance 

 of the anterior wings, and from the latter by the straighter costal 

 margin, and the geminations upon it being coarser, and not so 

 regular. 



The imago appears in June and July, in gardens and hedges ; 

 common throughout the country, and in the vicinity of Dublin. 



The larva feeds in the shoots of the Sweet Briar (Rosa rubi- 

 ginosa), Rose, &c., and spins the terminal leaves together. 



2. Rosa3colana, Doubleday. Alls anticis albis, cinereo variegatis ; 

 fascia basi apicequc fuscis ; ad angulum analem macula ocellari 

 magna stibplumbea, punctis brunneis nigrisque omata; costa 

 arcuata albo nigroque strigata ; posticis griseo -fuscis. J Exp. 

 al. 8-9 lin. 



Head dull ochreous, inclining to brown. Face same colour as the 

 head. Eyes black. Palpi pale dusky ochreous, slightly paler be- 

 neath. Antennae fuscous ; basal joint clothed beneath with shining- 

 scales. Thorax deep fuscous, with two transverse bands of grey 

 across the vertex. Patagia deep fuscous at the base and apex, grey 

 in the middle. Anterior wings white and shining, with fuscous and 

 grey streaks and markings : the; basal patch is deep fuscous, streaked 



