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striga, and on the margin itself a row of distinct black dots : the stigmata are 

 very large, pale/ clouded, more or less, with cinereous in the centre: and be- 

 tween the anterior one and the inner margin of the wing is a third, indicated 

 by a black margin, but very variable in size and colour : cilia cinereous, with 

 brown clouds : posterior wings fuscous-ash, with an obscure striga behind 

 the middle, and the hinder margin dusky. Female more obscure than the 

 male. 

 Caterpillar fuscous, with a waved pale reddish streak on the sides, and two pale 

 lines: — it feeds on the Verbascum Thapsus : — the imago Is found towards 

 the end of June. 



Not unfrequently captured near Darenth and Birch woods, and 

 occasionally at Coombe-wood, and in Epping Forest, resting upon 

 the trunks of trees, as well as in other parts of the metropolitan 

 district. " Alderley." — Rev. E. Sta?ilei/. " Epping." — Mr. H. 

 Doubleday. " Carlisle." — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. 



Sp. 4. occulta. AUs anticis fusco cineredque nebuJosis, posticisfuscis, ciliis albis. 



(Exp. alar. 2 unc. 2 lin.) 

 Ph. No. occulta. Linne. — Po. occulta. Curtis, vi. pi. 248. — Steph. Catal. part ii* 



p. 89. N'o. 6265. 



Head and thorax dark cinereous, with brown spots and clouds : anterior wings 

 clouded with hoary and fuscous, with a black line at the base, intersected by 

 an obsolete waved pale striga ; a second, and more distinct pale striga, con- 

 siderably waved, before the middle, to which the anterior stigma, which is 

 pale and heart-shaped, is united, and between the latter and the inner margin 

 is an elongate-ovate stigmatiform spot, also attached to the striga, the posterior 

 stigma is ear-shaped, clouded in the middle, with the margin pale, beyond it 

 is a whitish undated striga, between which and the hinder margin is a fourth 

 irregularly waved one, marked on its anterior margin with elongate dusky 

 streaks : on the hinder margin is a row of triangular black spots : posterior 

 wings fuscous, with the margin and a central lunule darker : cilia white. 



CaterpUlar black on the back, the sides fuscous, with ochraceous lines ; — it feeds 

 on the dandelion and lettuce : — the imago appears in July. 



An insect resembling this species is in the collection at the British Museum, 

 which, for the interests of science, it is necessary to state^ was captured in 

 Nova Scotia, but not in Britain. 



This conspicuous and large insect is still to be found in very few 

 cabinets : the first specimens which came to my knowledge were 

 taken by Mr. Hatchett in Epping Forest, many years since, and 

 others have occurred in the same place and near Dover. " Aider- 

 ley, Cheshire." — Rev. E. Stanley, who kindly presented me with 

 the only specimen he ever captured. 



Sp. 5. tincta. Alis anticis hepaticis cinereo-argenteis nebulosis, strigis variis 



