86 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ph. No. Verbasci. Linne.—Cu. Verbasci. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 102. No. 

 6355. Albin. pi. xiii./ 18. 



Similar to the preceding, but of a much darker colour : head varied with ochraceous 

 and deep fuscous; thoracic crest ochraceous, with two transverse white streaks 

 posteriorly^ and its hinder edge deep fuscous ; centre of the thorax also deep fus- 

 cous ; sides pale ochraceous, rarely sprinkled with black atoms : anterior wings, 

 with the costa, broadly deep fuscous, shaded gradually paler towards the disc, 

 which is of an ochraceous or yellowish brown, sometimes of a cinereous tinge 

 towards the anal angle on the posterior margin ; a little before the middle is a 

 faint deeply angulated pale transverse striga, edged exteriorly with fuscous, and 

 behind the middle is an extremely obsolete indented striga, terminating in a 

 distinct bilunate white or flavescent mark, resembhng the figure 3, a little be- 

 hind the middle of the inner margin ; the space from which to the anal angle is of 

 adeep, somewhat castaneous-brown, striated with ochraceous; the hindermargin 

 is slightly striated with fuscous, and on its extreme edge are somelunular spots 

 of the same hue, bordered with a pale line ; cilia fuscous, with lighter shades 

 and interrupted with whitish : posterior wings fuscous or ochraceous white, 

 with the margin dusky; nervures brown; at the base of the cilia is a pale 

 line ; cilia ochraceous, clouded with brown : abdomen with a fuscous dorsal 

 line. 



This species is in general of a larger size and of a darker colour than the pre- 

 ceding ; but examples occur of a pale ochraceous, with fuscescent margins to 

 the anterior wings. 



Caterpillar cinereous or whitish, spotted with yellow and black : — it feeds on 

 the various species of Verbascum about July : — the imago appears in the fol- 

 lowing April. 



Not uncommon in the neighbourhood of Darenth and Birch 

 woods ; and abundant in the larva state near Hertford : it is also 

 far from rare throughout the metropolitan district. " Suffolk." — 

 W. C. Hewitson, Esq. 



B. Wings entire. 



Sp. 3. Asteris. Alts anticis medio cinereis, marginihus castaneo-fuscis, exteriore 

 punctis tribus albis, stigmatibus ordinariis distinctis. (Exp. alar, 1 unc. 10 

 lin. — 2 unc.) 



No. Asteris. Wien. Ver%.—Cu. Asteris. Curtis, i. pi. 45. Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. 103. No. 635fi. 



Head fuscous ; thorax gray-brown, with pale-brown transverse streaks anteriorly, 

 and a deep black one before the middle, the sides or petagis ashy-brown, 

 spotted with black : anterior wings rather slender and very acute, of a cinereous 

 hue, with delicate brown pencilings in the middle, the costa broadly chestnut 

 brown, with about three distinct white spots near the apex, the inner margin 

 deep brown, with a lunular whitish mark, edged with brown towards the 

 anal angle, which latter is delicately streaked Avith whitish-ash and broun ; 

 on the hinder margin of the wing is a slender, somewhat interrupted, brown 



