70 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



brown, tinted with rosy : posterior wings whitish, with a striga behind the 



middle, and a central luniilar spot dusky ; cilia rosy. 

 It varies much in colour ; sometimes the rosy tint is wanting ; at others, it is 



very brilliant. 

 Caterpillar flesh-colour, with minute black dots, with a reddish dorsal line, and 



a pale lateral streak ; the extremities flavescent :— it feeds on bulbous roots : — 



the imago appears about the middle of July or beginning of August, 



Not very common : it lias however been taken very frequently 

 in the vicinity of London : and in abundance near Cork ; it also 

 occurs in Norfolk, Devonshire, and in the New Forest. 



Sp. 2. flavago. Alis anticis aureo-Jlavis atomis brunneis adspersis,fasciis duahus 



rufo-fuscis, stigmatibusjlavis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 7 Un.) 

 No. flavago. Wien. F.— Go. flavago. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 99. No. 6327. 



Head reddish-brown, with a flavescent cloud on the forehead: thorax the same, 

 with four ill-defined ferruginous spots, two in front, and the others laterally 

 on the disc : anterior wings of a rich golden-yellow, with an irregular rufous- 

 brown fascia near the base, accompanied on each side with an imperfect fer- 

 ruginous striga; on the hinder margin is a similarly coloured but broader 

 fascia, margined anteriorly with a dentated ferruginous striga, composed of 

 obsolete lunular spots, and exteriorly with an irregular flavescent fascia, 

 thickly irrorated with rufous-brown, except at the apex ; between the fasciae 

 the ground colour of the wings is thickly sprinkled with reddish-brown scales, 

 and between the stigmata is an indistinct rusty-brown striga ; the stigmata are 

 of a brighter yeUow, the anterior waved with a slight ferruginous central 

 cloud, the posterior ear-shaped, with two somewhat lunular ferruginous clouds, 

 frequently confluent : there is also a third stigma, of a parabolic form, placed 

 between the anterior one and the inner margin, and united to the ferruginous 

 striga which accompanies the fuscous fascia on the outside ; cilia rufo-fuscous : 

 posterior wings somewhat ochraceous, with a central lunular spot, a striga be- 

 hind the middle, a marginal fascia, and the cilia fuscescent. 



Slightly variable in colour, some specimens being of a paler hue than others. 



Caterpillar dirty- white, spotted with black, the first and last segments black ; 

 head yellowish brown ; — it feeds on the pith of the burdock ; and also subsists 



+ Sp. 3. luteago. Alis anticis Jlav is stigmatibus pallidioribus, strigis duahua 



dentatis maculisque nebulosis fuscis. 

 No. luteago. Wien. V. — Samonelle (! ) — Go. luteago. Steph. Catal. part ii. 



p. 99. No. 6328 note. 



Size of Xanthia citrago : antennas ferruginous, with a white shaft : anterior 

 wings flavescent, with two very much dentated fuscous strigae in the middle, 

 approximating towards the inner margin, where they nearly unite : posterior 

 wings THrhitish. 



