64 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sp. 1. flavago. Alis anticis aurantiis, punctis maculis fascidque maculosa obliqua 

 pone medium purpurascentibus, thorace antice subfusco. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 3— 4lin.) 



No. flavago. Fabricius. — Xa. flavago. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 98. No. 6317. 

 Albin. pi. Ixviii./. a — d. 



Head and anterior portion of the thorax reddish-fuscous, tinted with orange ; 

 hinder portion of the latter orange ; anterior wings of the latter colour, with 

 a large spot at the base of the costa, a smaller flexuous one towards the middle, 

 and an oblique transverse fascia composed of numerous confluent spots to- 

 wards the hinder margin purplish ; there are also a few scattered spots of 

 the same hue on the disc, and towards the hinder margin a row of somewhat 

 fuscescent ones; cilia purpHsh; stigmata very obsolete, the posterior indicated 

 by a fuscous spot, and a minute purplish one towards the costa, situated on the 

 anterior margin of the oblique transverse fascia : posterior wings pale-yellow, 

 with an obscure transverse fuscescent striga behind the middle ; cilia yellow. 



Caterpillar brown, a little clouded with dusky, with a round head :— it feeds 

 on the sallow and plantain: — the imago is produced in the beginning of 

 September. 



Not uncommon in tlie woods near London ; at Oak of Honour 

 and Sydenham woods, and at Coombe I have frequently taken it ; 

 and also at Birch-wood. It also occurs at Darenth. 



Sp. 2. fulvago. Alls anticis Jlavis rufo-fusco subfasciatis, sti-igaque posticd 

 pundorum fuscorum, thorace Jlavo. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 lin.) 



Ph. No. fulvago. Linne. — Xa. fulvago. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 98. No. 6318. 

 Ph. rubago, Don. x. pi. 338. f. 2. 



Head and thorax yellow, the latter with two rufo-fuscous spots : anterior wings 

 also yellow, with a deep fuscous spot at the base, followed by a subinter- 

 rupted rufo-fuscous fascia, arising from a distinct spot on the costa, then 

 some irregular clouds of the same colour, followed behind the middle of the 

 wing by a broad but very much interrupted and irregular fascia of similar 

 hue, composed of spots and lunular marks, and towards the hinder margin 

 a row of distinct fuscous dots : the anterior stigma is faintly indicated by a 

 fusco-rufescent ring, and the posterior by a deep fuscous spot at its base : 

 cilia pale-orange, with the tip darker : posterior wings yellowish- white, with 

 sulphureous cilia. 



Var. /3. With the fasciae on the anterior wings more confluent and of a deep 

 fuscous, the ciUa spotted with fuscous. 



Var. y. With the anterior wings of a rich orange, obsoletely but more regularly 

 fasciated with purplish-brown than in var. a, and the row of fuscous spots 

 on the posterior margin nearly obsolete. 



Var. S. With the anterior wings very pale-yellow, and obsoletely clouded and 

 fasciated, the cilia very deep fuscous at the tip, and the posterior row of 

 spots very distinct. 



