36 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sp. 2. Bradyporina. Px,ate 26. JI 3. ^lis anticis albidisfusco irroratis punciis 

 lineolisque atris, posticis albis margine nigro punctata. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 5—6 lin.) 



Ac. Bradyporina. Ochsenheimer. — Ap. Bradyporina. Steph. Catal. part ii. />. 91. 

 No. 6276. 



Head and thorax dirty- white or cinereous : anterior wings whitish, thickly irro- 

 rated throughout with minute black atoms, with a black lineola at the base, 

 and other markings, as in the last; but the posterior dentate striga very 

 distinct, and nearly continuous from the costa, where it arises from a black 

 spot, and bends suddenly and considerably outwards, to the inner margin; 

 the hinder margin is very strongly spotted with black : posterior wings white, 

 with a row of dusky and black spots on the hinder margin: abdomen 

 cinereous. 



Caterpillar grass-green, clothed with long decumbent white hairs : it feeds on 

 the Prunus domestical the imago appears in the beginning of June. 



Far more rare than the last: it has been found at Birch and 

 Darenth-woods ; and in other places in their vicinity. 



Sp. 3. Aceris. Alls anticis cinereo-canis aut fuscis, lineolis undatis annuloque 

 nigris, posticis albidis fusco-venosis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 8 lin.) * 



Ph. No. Aceris. Linne. — Don. x. pi. 330. — Ap. Aceris. Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. 91. No. 6277. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen hoary, thickly sprinkled with minute fuscous dots ; 

 palpi laterally dusky: anterior wings hoary-ash, with a trifurcate black 

 lineola at the base, and several dusky obsolete waved strigge ; anterior stigma 

 formed by a black ring, posterior more or less obscure ; behind the latter is an 

 arcuated and considerably dentated whitish striga, bordered on the outside by 

 a fuscous band ; hinder margin pale hoary-ash, with a row of black spots on 

 the edge itself, each spot continued to the apex of the cilia, which are cine- 

 rascent in the intervals : posterior wings white or whitish, with the nervures 

 dusky at the apex, and sometimes a pale cinereous interrupted striga behind 

 the middle ; cilia cinereous, interrupted with fuscous. 



Var. (i. With the thorax, abdomen , and anterior wings dark fuscous, the latter 

 marked as in var. «: posterior wings sometimes white, at others cinereous, 

 with darker nervures and transverse striga. 



Caterpillar thickly clothed with long yellow hairs, with five red and yellow tufts 

 on the back, and a row of white catenated spots edged with black:— it feeds 

 on the horse-chestnut, maple (Acer), oak, ash, &c. in the autumn: — the 

 imago appears towards the end of June. 



Not uncommon; especially where the horse-chestnut abounds. 

 Var. /3. I have reared from the same batch of eggs which has 

 produced the ordinary state of the insect; it is therefore satis- 

 factorily proved to be merely a variety. " Epping." — Mr. H. 

 Douhleday. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Cambridge.'" — 

 C. C. Babmgtori, Esq. 



