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margin is of a deep fuscous-ash, with some flexuous pale and dusky streaks ; 

 the hinder margin of the wing has a slender interrupted black line ; the cilia 

 are cinereous, with two darker hnes at the base : posterior Avings fuscous, with 

 the base rather paler ; the nervures and a central spot dusky ; cilia white, 

 with the base somewhat ochreous. 

 Caterpillar dusky-ash, with a reddish dorsal streak, bordered on each side by 

 greenish spots, a yellowish lateral line, spotted with black, above the legs, and 

 a black head : it feeds on the lettuce (Lactuca safiva), Sonchus oleraceus 

 and arvensis, Lapsana comm-unis, &c. : — the imago appears about the middle 

 of July. 



Found occasionally in the lanes about Darentli and Birch woods, 

 but far from abundant : also taken at Coombe-wood, and in other 

 parts near London. " Marton Lodge, Yorks." — L. Rudd, Esq. 



Sp. 8. lucifuga. Alls anticis cccruleo-cinereis, venis strigisgiie longitudinalibu" 



nigris ; posticis undique fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. lOlin. — 2 unc.) 

 No. lucifuga. Wien. V.—Cu. lucifuga. Steph. Catal. partii. p. 103. No. 6361. 



Rather larger than Cu. Lactuca; : the head is dusky, with ashy-spots ; thorax 

 whitish, with brown transverse strigse ; the sides whitish-gi-ay, with dusky 

 edges : the back dusky, with whitish hairs : anterior wings rather broad, of a 

 bluish-ash ; the costa at the base palest ; the nervures more or less dusky or 

 black : towards the apex of the wings on the posterior margin are several longi- 

 tudinal whitish streaks, edged with grayish, and terminated by a series of 

 lunular black marks, beyond which is a transverse ashy-white streak ; cilia 

 ashy-gray, w-ith the tip white : posterior wings deep dusky-brown, the cilia 

 whitish, with the base a little dusky. 



Caterpillar dirty-yellow, with dusky shades, with greenish-blue spots on the sides, 

 and four lateral streaks ; head glossy-brown: it feeds on Sonchus oleraceus 

 and similar plants :— the imago appears in the beginning of July. 



Frequents the same localities as the last, but less abundant. 

 " Netley, Salop."— i^^y. F. TV. Hope. 



Sp. 9. Chamomillge. Alls anticis obscure cinereis, nigra siriatis, macula suh- 

 centrali alhidd ; posticis fuscis, busi albidis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 9 lin.) 



No. Chamomillse. Wien. V. — Cu. ChamomiUse. Steph. Cutal. part ii. p. 103. 

 No. 6362. 



Head fuscous, with cinereous strige : thorax cinereous, with an anterior black 

 striga, and some obscure cinereous ones ; the back dusky : anterior wings ob- 

 sciire ash-colour, striated with black, the striae very delicate and following the 

 direction of the nervures, the spaces between being longitudinally striated 



' with wliitish and cinereous ; at the base is a more distinct black streak, placed 

 on a pale ashy ground, and at its extremity, a little behind th€ centre of the 



