38 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



said to appear in May or the beginning of June, and in the autumn; I have 

 frequently taken it in July; and on the 2d ult. I found a specimen, in the act 

 of drying its wings, on a poplar at Kentish-town. 



Not very uncommon : I have frequently taken the insect at 

 Hertford and at Darenth. " Bottisham."" — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp, 2. Ligustri. Alls anticisfusco virescentique variis nigro subundatis, macula 



magna posticd albida; posticis fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 6 lin.) 

 No. Ligustri. Wien. F.— Ac. Ligustri. Steph. Catal part ii. p. 92. No. 6279. 



Head and thorax cinereous, varied with fuscous : anterior wings varied with 

 greenish and hrovra or dusky, with a geminated waved black striga before 

 the stigmata, and several rather less distinct between them; the anterior 

 stigma is round, brownish, with a white margin, and placed in an obscure 

 rather pale transverse fascia; beyond the posterior stigma, and forming part 

 of its hinder margin, is a large ashy- white spot, having a sort of a catenated 

 border, the exterior portion of which is formed of the arch of the ordinary 

 third striga ; adjoining to which on the inner margin, near the anal angle, is a 

 small pale lunule ; the hinder margin is cinereous, with fuscous spots ; the 

 ciUa ashy, interrupted with brown : posterior wings fuscous. 



Var. /3. With the anterior vsdngs almost entirely suffused with fuscous; the pale 

 margins being nearly obliterated : posterior deep fuscous. 



Caterpillar pale yeUowish-green, with three fine yellowish-white longitudinal 

 stripes and slender black hairs : — it feeds on the privet (Ligustrum vulgare): — 

 the imago appears at the end of June. 



Not common : I have taken the insect at Darenth-wood, and 

 have seen several from the neighbourhoods of Croydon andBrighton; 

 also from Devonshire, where it is found near Plymouth and near 

 Ashburton. " Epping."— J/r. H. Doubleday. « Matlock."— i2^t;. 

 F. W. Hope. 



Sp. 3. Alni. Alls anticis fusco-nigris, maculd magna basalt apiceque cinereis, 

 atro strigosis, posticis albis, margine Jusco. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 7 lin.) 



Ph. No. Alni. Linne.—Don. x. pi. 327. f. 2. — Ac. Alni. Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. 92. No. 6280. 



Head and thorax hoary, with a black lateral line : anterior wings with a large 

 subovate cinereous patch at the base, extending beyond the anterior stigma ; 

 and a larger blotch of similar hue, occupying the apex from the posterior 

 stigma, and stretching obliquely across nearly to the anal angle, which latter 

 is also cinereous ; the rest of the wing is suffused with deep fuscous-black, 

 with a broad intensely black line at the base, and another towards the anal 

 angle ; a dentate black striga, margined anteriorly with hoary, passes through 

 the cinereous apical patch, and an obscure undxdated pale one near the hinder 

 margin, interrupted by a longitudinal slender black streak towards the apex : 

 cilia hoary, interrupted with fuscous: posterior wings white, with a pale 



