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used to find the larvse rather abundantly on the lime trees, crawling 

 upon the bark. 



Sp. 7. fimbriago. Alis anticis Jlavis rufo-subnebidosis, margine postico latissimo 



rufo-fuscescente. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Xa. fimbriago mihi. Steph. CataL part ii. p. 99. No. 6322. 

 Head pale luteous-yellow; thorax the same, with two fuscous spots (probably 

 the rudiments of a transverse striga, the crest being rubbed oft" my speci- 

 men) ; anterior wings pale luteous-yeUow from the base nearly to the posterior 

 stigma, with a pale subquadrate rufescent spot on the costa, and several minute 

 irregular rufous clouds on the disc; the anterior stigma whitish, with a 

 fuscescent circle; posterior half of the wing rufo-fuscescent, with a purphsh 

 hue, with the anterior edge and region of the stigma, and an undulated striga 

 towards the hinder margin, at the extreme edge of the latter, and the cilia of 

 a deeper hue; the discoidal nervures are shghtly fuscescent; and behind the 

 posterior stigma is a slender, but very distinct, flexuous line, extending to 

 about the third nervure from the inner margin: posterior wings reddish- 

 yellow, with the base paler or whitish. 

 The only example I have seen of this very remarkable and 

 distinct species, I obtained from the Marshamian cabinet: it ap- 

 pears to be perfectly new, but of its locality I am ignorant. 



Sp. 8. croceago. Alis anticis flavo-ferrugineis strigis punctisquefuscis, margine 



anteriori albo punctato. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 4 lin.) 

 No. croceago. Wien. T.— Xa. croceago. Steph. CataL part ii. p. 99. No. 6324. 



Head and thorax rufo-fuscous, the latter highly and acutely crested towards 

 the anterior margin ; anterior wings ferruginous-yellow or orange, with the 

 ordinary striga rather indistinct, the base somewhat clouded with pale fus- 

 cous, and the apex with some darker spots placed in two distinct rows, one, 

 geminated, a little behind the posterior stigma, the other on the hinder 

 margin itself; and midway between these is a slightly waved fuscous striga; 

 and from the base of the posterior stigma to the inner margin is a more 

 distinct obUque fuscous striga, which has frequently a branch, placed at a 

 right angle, at its origin on the stigma, leading between the stigmata to the 

 costa; which latter has five or six very distinct, subequidistant, white spots 

 placed between the base and the posterior stigma; stigmata rather large, 

 pale-orange, with darker clouds : posterior wings Avhite, with a pale abbre- 

 viated rosy or fuscescent striga behind the middle, and a central spot, both 

 sometimes obsolete. 



The colour of the anterior wings, and the intensity of their markings, vary 

 considerably. 



Caterpillar yellowish, with a fuscous dorsal Une, and oblique lateral orange 

 streaks; — it feeds on the oak: — the imago appears in September. 



Xa. croceago apparently differs considerably from the preceding species of the 

 genus: the palpi being porrected horizontally, with the terminal joint slightly 



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