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ochreous tinge, thickly and finely streaked with fuscous. The costa 

 is geminated throughout ; the geminations are much produced, par- 

 ticularly beyond the middle ; sometimes merging into lustrous blue 

 lines. At the anal angle is an ocelloid patch, edged anteriorly and 

 posteriorly with pale lustrous scales, the interspace marked with 

 longitudinal black lines, which are more or less present. The re- 

 maining portions of the wing are streaked transversely, most appa- 

 rent on the dorsal margin. Apical scales glossy, umbreous, with 

 drab tips. Cilia very glossy, brownish drab. Posterior wings glossy, 

 grey, with a pearly tinge, merging into fuscous at the apex. Mar-: 

 ginal scales fuscous, with paler bases. Cilia pale drab. Legs pale 

 fuscous. Abdomen glossy, leaden colour, the apex drab. $ Exp. 

 al. 4J lin. Marked like the <?, but richer in colour; the posterior 

 wings are darker, somewhat umbreous ; the scales coarse. Marginal 

 scales pale umbreous, with drab bases. 



Taken on the coast near Deal, in July, by Mr. Bouchard ; 

 also a single instance was captured by Mr. Edwin Shepherd, in 

 company with G. Hypericana, he thinks, near London. 



6. Wimmerana, Treits. Alis anticis albis ; nebulis maculaque fusco- 

 cinereis; costa postica strigulis cinereis; macula ocellari ro tun- 

 data, atomis atris ; posticis griseis. tf Exp. al. 8 lin. 



Head and face white. Eyes black. Palpi longer than the head, 

 white. Antennae drab, the base white. Thorax and patagia white, 

 approaching cream-colour. Anterior wings dull, white, with faint 

 drab clouds and fuscous markings ; the costa before the middle 

 narrowly pale fuscous ; beyond, with darker fuscous, short, oblique 

 streaks (sometimes produced), with broad, pale geminations between. 

 At the middle of the base is a lanceolate fuscous mark, longitudi- 

 nally placed, dilating in width and deepening in colour posteriorly ; 

 its apex well denned ; a fainter, similar- coloured mark is on the 

 dorsal margin, towards the base. At the anal angle is a fuscous 

 cloud surrounding the ocelloid patch, which is roundish, white, and 

 bearing two or three black lines posteriorly. The apex white, with 

 a fuscous patch below ; the pale portions of the wing clouded with 

 drab, especially on the dorsal margin. Apical scales drab, with the 

 apices narrowly fuscous. Cilia drab. Posterior wings grey, soften- 

 ing into pale fuscous at the margins, especially at the apex. Marginal 

 scales slightly fuscous, bases whitish. Cilia whitish. Abdomen 

 fuscous, the edges of the segments fringed with long, glossy, drab 

 scales ; the caudal tuft drab. $ Exp. al. 8 lin. 



A coast species, and tolerably constant in size and colour. It 

 was first added to the British list by Mr. J. W. Douglas, who 

 captured it in 1842. The G, lacteana, Treits., of the Museum 



