32 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Devonsliire, I believe by Captain Blomer, about six years since, and 

 a third at Birmingham in October, 1825. 



Sp. 9. flavocincta. Alis anticis Jusco cinereoque variis, atomis aurantiis adspersis. 



(Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 — 10 lin.) 

 No. flavocincta. Wien. V. — Don. x. pi. 334. — Po. flavocincta. Steph. Catal. 



part ii. p. 90. No. 6270. 



Head and thorax cinereous varied with fuscous^ and a few fulvous atoms: anterior 

 wings hoary, obscurely fasciated with fuscous, and strigulated with white and 

 dusky, with irregular fulvous or orange-coloured spots : the stigmata are large, 

 rather indistinct and obscure ; near the posterior margin is a faint striga of 

 fulvous spots, each with a fuscous spot attached anteriorly : posterior wings 

 whitish-ash, with a crenated fuscous striga behind the middle, and a cinerascent 

 marginal fimbria : eyes naked. Some specimens are much darker than others, 

 and are more strigulated with dusky. 



Caterpillar green, with a pale dorsal and lateral line: it feeds on various plants, 

 such as the dock, currant, gooseberry, lettuce, wiUow, bird-cherry, &c.: — the 

 imago appears in the autumn, towards the end of September^ and frequents 

 gardens and hedges. 



For several successive years, I captured this insect in a garden at 

 Hertford, but for these last eight or ten years I have not seen a 

 single living example: the insect is, however, not very abundant. 

 " York, in a fir plantation." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. " Epping." 

 — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



Sp. 10. dysodea. Alis anticis cinereis atomis undique fulvo-aurantiis, fascia 

 media nigricante strigisque duabus lunulatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 5 lin.) 



No. dysodea. Wien. V. — Po- dysodea. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 90. No. 6271. 

 — Ranunculus Moth. Wilkes, pi. 1 ^.Jig. inf. 



Head and thorax cinereous, varied with fulvous and rosey : anterior wings 

 cinereous, with a white striga at the base, edged anteriorly with fulvous; a 

 second before the middle, with one or more fulvous spots ; a third composed of 

 white lunular spots, each margined anteriorly with dusky, behind the middle, 

 and considerably arcuated, the colour between these two strigje being some- 

 what fuscous, and bearing the ordinary stigmata, which are cinereous, and 

 more or less bounded and spotted with fulvous: near the hinder margin is a 

 series of fulvous spots : cilia tessellated with fulvous and fuscous : posterior 

 wings cinereous, with a fuscous border. 



Caterpillar dark-green, with dusky spots on the back, and a yellowish lateral 

 line : — it feeds on lettuce, wormwood, &c. : — the imago comes forth towards 

 the middle of July, and affects gardens and hedges. 



Not very uncommon, and certainly more abundant than the fore- 

 going species : I have taken many specimens at Darenth-wood, and 

 at Hertford and Ripley. " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



