14, HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



it chiefly differs by tlie dinginess and uniformity of its colours, 

 especially of the hinder portion of the anterior wings. 



Sp. 5. humeralis. Alis anticis wqualiter antice fnscis, postice cinereo-albidh, 

 margine posticofusco; corpore elongato. (Exp. alar. 10 — 12 lin.) 



No. humeralis. Hiibner. — Mi. humeralis. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 86. No. 

 6243. 



Head and thorax cinereous or whitish : anterior wings from the base to beyond 

 the middle cinereous or fuscous, sometimes dusky; then a broad white or 

 pale ashy space, more or less clouded with fuscous, and bearing towards the 

 hinder margin of the wing an undulated pale striga, between which and the 

 hinder margin is irregularly clouded with fuscous : cUia cinereous with darker 

 clouds : body rather long. Anterior wings sometimes nearly of an uniform 

 pale ochraceous or whitish-ash, with the usual markings very indistinct ; at 

 others nearly of an uniform pale cinereous, with the posterior half rather 

 paler than the base : posterior wings in all the varieties pale fuscous, with the 

 margin darkest. 



Not very common round London, but in the utmost profusion 

 near Dover about the middle of August; also at Hastings, Brighton, 

 and Shoreham. I have occasionally taken it at Hertford and 

 Ripley. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 6. terminalis. Alis fusco-rufescentihus margine postico undatim nigricante. 



(Exp. alar. 10—13 lin.) 

 No. terminalis. Haworth.— Mi. terminalis. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 86. No. 



6244. 



Closely allied to some of the varieties of the last, but of a sombre hue, and 

 without the white posterior fascia on the anterior wings ; which latter are 

 scarcely clouded, but are of an uniform rufescent brown, with the hinder 

 margin slightly clouded with fuscous, and bearing an undated pale striga : 

 cilia cinereous : posterior wings deep brown, with ashy cilia. 



This also varies : in some examples there are a few dark scattered marks towards 

 the centre of the anterior wings, and the posterior are cinereous, with a dark 

 broad fuscous margin. 



Taken near London, about Walthamstow, Darenth and Coombe 

 woods ; not uncommon in the Isle of Dogs and near Stratford-le- 

 Bow ; and in Copenhagen-fields : rare near Dover, where the pre- 

 ceding abounds. 



Sp. 7. rufuncula. " Alis toto rujis, strigis trihus ohsoletissimis pallidioribus." — 



Haw. (Exp. alar. 10—12 lin.) 

 No. rufuncula. Haworth.— Mi. rufuncula. Steph. Catal.pt. ii. p. 86. No. 6245. 

 Thorax, abdominal tuft, and anterior wings rufous, the latter with two straight 



paler strigae in the middle, and another waved one towards the hinder margin. 



