«» HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



considerably waved dusky striga, obscurely edged with whitish exteriorly; 

 hinder margin with an interrupted black line ; cilia cinereous : posterior wings 

 whitish, with the extreme edge and nervures fuscous: cilia white. 

 Caterpillar dusky, or bluish-gray, with three rows of orange-red spots:— it feeds 

 on the Sonchus oleraceus and S. arvensis: — the imago appears towards the 

 middle of July, and frequents low hedges ; it varies considerably in colour. 



This is decidedly the most common species of the genus, but 

 it is nevertheless far from abundant ; it occurs usually on open 

 palings, secreting itself beneath the cross bars, and in such situa- 

 tions I have occasionally met with it, Cu. Chamomillse, and Cu. 

 iissina (which is probably a variety of the last), on Wimbledon- 

 common, near Iloehampton. " Netley, Salop." — Rev. F. W. Hope. 

 " York, and in Suftbik."— fF. C. Hewitsoji, Esq. " Epping."— 

 Mr. H. Doubledar/. 



Sp. 6. Tanaceti. Alls anticis canis, linr.oUs duabus hngitudinalibus atris ; posticis 

 albis margine fasco. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 — 10 lin.) 



No. Tanaceti. Wien. Ver%.—C\JL. Tanaceti. Steph. Catal- part ii. p. 103. 

 No. 6360. 



Head cinereous: thorax the same, with a transverse fuscous striga on the fore 

 part : anterior wings, slender, acute, hoary, or whitish-gray, with a slender 

 blacfe lineola at the base, reaching nearly to the middle, and a shorter one 

 towards the middle, which is somewhat flexuous near its termination ; to- 

 wards the apex of the wing, on the hinder margin, are two or three abbreviated 

 black streaks, the nervures are fuscescent, and the spaces between cinereous, 

 with dusky or hoary longitudinal streaks ; on the hinder margin is an in- 

 terrupted slender black line ; the cilia are cinereous, with the base transversely 

 streaked with a darker line, and the apex whitish : posterior wings nearly 

 white, with the nervures and hinder margin dusky ; ciUa white. 



Caterpillar cinereous, spotted with black, and lineated with yellow : it feeds 

 on the tansy ( Tanacetum vulgare), the wormwood (Artemisia vulgaris), 

 chamomile, &c. : — the imago appears towards the end of July. 



Not common ; found occasionally in the woods near the metro- 

 polis ; also in Norfolk, Suffolk, Devonshire, and North Wales. 



Sp. 7. Lactucfc. Alis anticis obscure cinereis, fusco obsolete undatis, macula 

 centrali subjerrugined ; posticis fuscis, bast dilutioribus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 10 lin. — 2 unc.) 



No. Lactuca;. IVien. Fer:^.— Cu. Lactucae. Steph. Catal part ii. p. 103. No. 

 6359. 



Head and thorax as in the preceding, but of a darker hue: anterior wings ob- 

 scure cinereous, obsoletely waved and striated with fuscous, with a somewhat 

 ferruginous or yellowish spot towards the centre, as in Cu. Umbratica, but 

 less distinct; towards the apex are some pale longitudinal streaks; the inner 



