4.» HAQSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



cinereous and fulvous-brown, and bears the ordinary stigmata, which are' 

 bounded by white, the posterior one having a white centre ; and behind 

 them, towards the anal angle, the wing is most delicately pencilled with 

 numerous slender cinereous and fuscous' zigzag strigae ; the costa is white, 

 with a few fulvous spots within and black spots on the margin; on the 

 hinder margin is a white striga, composed of connected elHptic arches; 

 posterior wings fuscous, with a paler central cloud; the posterior margin 

 and ciMa somewhat ochreous. 

 Caterpillar greenish-yellow, with dusky-brown spots and black lines : the imago 

 appears at the end of July, or beginning of August. 



Not very uncommon, though usually esteemed rare ; specimens 

 occur occasionally at Darenth-wood ; and the insect has been taken 

 in Epping Forest, near Hertford, and in other places within the 

 metropolitan district. " Teignmouth, Devon." — Rev. W. T. Bree. 

 " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



Sp. 2. batis. Alls anticis olivaceo-fuscis maculis subrotundis guinque sesquialtera 

 incarnatis, posticis fuscescentibus, striga pallida. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 7 hn.) 



Ph. No. batis. Linne. — Th. batis. Curtis, ii. pi. 72. — Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 94. 

 No. 6297. 



Head gray-brown, thorax the same, transversely varied with pale ash, and tinted 

 posteriorly with rosy : anterior wings ohve-brown, with an irregular large 

 pale rose-coloured spot at the base, in which are some pale fuscous clouds ; 

 a second small one near the middle of the inner margin ; two, nearly united, 

 at the apex of the costa, the apical one rather irregular in form ; a larger spot 

 on the anal angle, which is generally fuscescent in the centre, and a minute 

 one adjoining it in the posterior margin, which latter, in fine specimens, has 

 a series of rosy lunules, bordered with fuscous anteriorly : posterior wings 

 fuscescent, the base palest, and a transverse pale slightly waved striga behind 

 the middle; cilia flavescent. 



The rosy spots are sometimes clouded with fuscous, and are sometimes white 

 on the margin. 



Caterpillar dusky or ferruginous, the back gibbous, the sides with a pale zigzag 

 streak, the third segment with a bifid tubercle : — it feeds on the bramble, and 

 the imago is found from the middle of June to the end of July. 



A beautiful insect, usually esteemed rare, but improperly, as it 

 occurs annually in several districts, especially at Darenth and 

 Coombe-woods, and in Epping Forest. " Coleshill." — Rev. W. T. 

 Bree. " Norwich.''' — W, C. HewUson, Esq. " Epping, not very 

 uncommon."" — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



Genus CXXVII. — Eriopus, Treitschke. 



Antennae shghtly pectinated on the inner side, and rather pubescent beneath in 

 the males, simple in the females : thorax crested: abdomen rather slender: 



