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purplish brown, with a velvety appearance. Palpi drab at base 

 above, grey at the apex and beneath. Antennae brown. Thorax 

 fuscous, with a reddish gloss. Patagia same colour as the thorax, 

 dull at the base, the apex shining. Anterior wings glossy cream- 

 colour, with fuscous brown and brick-red markings, with a pale 

 blotch on the dorsal margin. The base is occupied by a patch, ex- 

 tending one-third the length of the dorsal margin, from which it 

 proceeds with a slightly oblique, nearly straight edge, to the middle 

 of the wing ; at the dorsal margin and external edge its colour is 

 umber-brown, becoming paler towards the base and the costa. At 

 the centre of the costa commences a deep ferruginous brown fascia, 

 which attains the anal angle, dilating inwardly along the dorsal 

 margin ; the costal fold is dull drab, marked with oblique brown 

 streaks. Beyond the central fascia the wing is suffused, and streaked 

 with deep ferruginous brown, somewhat paler. On the apical portion 

 of the costa are four cream-coloured geminations, all directed to a 

 point in the apical margin below the spot at the apex. The ocelloid 

 patch is suffused in its upper and lower edges with dull leaden 

 brown, and at its sides with somewhat lustrous golden clouds ; the 

 centre brown, bearing from three to five longitudinal black streaks ; 

 the dorsal blotch is streaked with brown. Apical scales deep brown, 

 with pale bases. Cilia iron-grey, with occasional streaks of brown, 

 becoming fuscous at the anal angle, and iron-grey beyond it ; the 

 apical scales and cilia both interrupted by a cream-coloured streak 

 below the apical spot. Posterior wings glossy, deep brown, darkest 

 at the apex, clothed with coarse scales. Marginal scales deep brown, 

 with pale bases. Cilia shining, pale grey, with a fuscous tinge. 

 Abdomen fuscous ; the caudal tuft dull drab. $ Exp. al. 6-7 lin. 

 Marked like the $ ; in colour a trifle more sombre. 



Like the preceding species, very variable, both in the colour 

 and in the intensity of its markings : it is somewhat similar in 

 appearance to Anticlea trimaculana, but is readily separable from 

 it by a light-coloured mark in the middle of the dorsal margin, by 

 the basal patch being abbreviated, and not attaining the costa, and 

 by its straight posterior edge. Some of the paler specimens are, 

 however, more like Anchylopera Mitterbacheriana, with which it is 

 sometimes confounded ; but this latter species does not vary, and 

 has the apical portion of the wings more evenly coloured than is 

 the case with L. Penkleriana. 



The imago appears commonly among Oaks, Alder, Hazel, 

 especially the latter, in June and July. It occurs throughout 

 the south of England, in Cheshire, and at Belfast in Ireland. 



