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line^ and the cilia are cinereous, with a darker line towards the base; the 

 stigmata are distinct, rather large and ovate, or elongate ; they are rather 

 paler than the wing, with a delicate interrupted brown border, and clouded 

 disc : posterior wings ashy-brown, with the margin darker, and the nervures 

 dusky ; cilia whitish, with a yellowish-brown line at the base. The intensity 

 of colom" varies considerably in different specimens. 

 Caterpillar, with the head brownish, spotted with dusky, a broad yellow dorsal 

 streak, beneath which is a narrower violaceous one, followed by a broad cUrty 

 green one, and a slender whitish-yellow one passing over the stigmata; the 

 lower part of the body and legs green :— it feeds on the flowers of the Solidago 

 virgaurea, and on various species of starwort (Aster) : — the imago appears the 

 beginning of July. 



Not common : found occasionally in Darentli-wood, and on the 

 borders of the downs near Croydon; it lias also occurred near 

 Fulham, and in Norfolk. 



tSp. 4. Thapsiphaga. AUs anticis medio ex alhido-cincreis, marginibus fusccs- 



centihus, serie duplici pimctorum nigrorum. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 10 hn.) 

 Cu. Thapsiphaga. Trcitschke?—Steph. Catal. part ii. ;;. 103. No. 6357. 



Head and thorax whitish-gray, the former brownish on the forehead, and the 

 latter with some faint streaks of the latter colour : anterior wings long ami 

 slender, of a whitish-ash, the costa dusky or blackish, with some whitish 

 spots near the apex; the inner margin is brownish, with an irregular whitish 

 spot behind the middle, and a longitudinal blackish streak; the hinder margin 

 is finely streaked with black, and has two rows of minute black dots ; the cilia 

 whitish-ash, mth dusky or blackish shades : posterior wings whitish-brown, 

 with the nervures darker; tlie cilia somewhat ochraceous, with a narrow 

 brown line at the base. 



In the British Museum is, I believe, a specimen of this species,' 

 which was captured in June, 1815, near Birch-wood, in Kent, and 

 is the only indigenous example I have hitherto seen. 



Sp. 5. Umbratica. Alls anticis striatis canis, macula centralijerrugined, lineold 

 longitudinali nigrd adjacentibus punctis nigris ; posticis albidis,fusco venosis. 

 (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 Un. — 2 unc.) 



Ph. No. Umbratica. Linne. — Don. \in. pi. 262. f. 2. — Cu. Umbratica. Steph. 

 Catal. part ii. p. 103. N'o. 6358. 



Hoary-ash ; head with dusky shades ; thoracic crest transversely striated with 

 dusky-ash, with a darker interrupted streak in front : anterior wings hoary, 

 finely striated with cinereous and black, with a large somewhat ovate fer- 

 ruginous cloud or spot rather beyond the middle, vanishihg at its edges into 

 the ground colour of the wing, and a distinct elongated black line at the base, 

 beyond the apex of which, on the disc of the wing, towards the costa, are three 

 or four distinct black spots, between which and the hinder margin is a faint 



