34 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



fuscous, tinted with green and red: and occasionally they have the inner 

 margin, the stigmata, and a fascia at the apex nearly pure white, and a 

 striga of the same on the hinder margin, in which is a row of hlack lunular 

 spots : this last variety is very rare, and appears to resemble the No. Protea 

 of Hubner: an insect which Ochsenheimer places in his artificial genus 

 Hadena. 

 Caterpillar dirty-green, with various dusky and paler stripes and dusky clouds: 

 it feeds on the oak : the imago comes forth at the end of September. 



Not uncommon: occasionally in the greatest profusion at Darentli- 

 wood in the larva state : also found at Birch-wood, Coombe, Hert- 

 ford, Ripley, &c. ; and throughout the metropolitan district. 

 " Epping." — i¥r. H. Douhleday. " Netley." — iJ^f. F. W. 

 Hope. 



Sp. 13. Chi. Alls canis, anticis cinereo-subnebulosis, x nigro notatis. (Exp. 



alar. 1 unc. 5 — 6 lin.) 

 Ph. No. Chi. Linne. — Don. xii. pi 406. — Po.? Chi. Steph. Catal. part ii. 



p. 91. No. 6274. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen hoary, speckled with minute cinereous dots : an- 

 terior wings hoary, clouded irregularly with cinereous and fuscous ; with the 

 usual stigmata hoary : behind the posterior one an obsolete whitish striga, 

 composed of lunular spots; and towards the hinder margin another striga of 

 pale ochraceous spots, having a few smaU black trigonate ones on its inner 

 edge; between the stigmata and the inner margin of the wing is a hlack 

 character, resembling the letter x, '• posterior wings of the male white, with 

 the nervures dusky, and margin fuscous ; of the female fuscous, with a dark 

 margin. 



There are considerable varieties in colour in this insect, some examples being 

 much darker and more strongly marked than others. 



Caterpillar green, with two white lateral lines : it feeds on the Aquilegia viU- 

 garis, Sonchi oleraceus and arvensis, Arctium Lappae, Lactuca sativa, &c. : 

 — the imago appears in July, and frequents barren districts. 



Not hitherto found near London, but in plenty in all the northern 

 counties, especially Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Cumberland, &c., also 

 on the mountains of North Wales ; concealing itself in the stone 

 walls which are so common in those districts. " Allesley." — Rev, 

 W. T. Bree. " On Stonehenge."— iJeu. G. T. Rudd. " New- 

 castle, common." — W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



Genus CXXII. — Apatela, Hubner. 



Palpi rather short, porrected, clothed with hair-hke scales, the terminal joint 

 sUghtly exposed ; basal joint about half the length of the second, rather stouter 



