90 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



disc, is a somewhat rhomboid, or emarginated, pale ashy or whitish spot : ciha 

 ashy-brown, with a dusky streak and longitudinal black lines : posterior wings 

 fuscous, with the base paler; cilia white, with two dusky transverse hnes. 

 Caterpillar cinereous, with two incurved ferruginous streaks on each segment ; 

 head yellowish-brown ; it feeds on the flowers of the Chamomile (Matricaria 

 Chamomillw) : — the imago appears in June. 



Hare : found near Birch-wood and in the vicinity of Wimbledon- 

 common: also in Devonshire, the New-forest, and near Wal- 

 hamstow in Epping-forest. 



Sp. 10. fissina. Alis anticis striatis,fusco nubilosis, maculd suhcentrali alhidd, 

 posticis fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 7 lin.) 



No. fissina. Haworth. — Cu. fissina. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 103. No. 6363. 



Very similar to the preceding, of which it is probably a mere suffused variety: 

 its head and thorax are similar ; the anterior wings are of a deeper ash, and 

 the black markings are more obscure, the basal one being, however, the most 

 distinct, and terminated, as in Cu. ChamomiUse, by a somewhat lunular or 

 rhomboid pale spot, a httle behind the centre of the disc ; ciha ashy-brown, 

 with the apex pale: posterior wings entirely of a deep fuscous: tail con- 

 siderably divided, appearing bifid. 



I conceive that this insect is merely the opposite sex of the fore- 

 going, differing chiefly in having the posterior wings of a deeper 

 colour throughout, and the general tint much darker than in that 

 species ; it inhabits the same localities, but is far from common. 



tSp. 11. Gnaphalii. Alis anticis fusco cinereoque variegatis, striis longitudinalibus 

 interruptis margineque posteriori atris. 



No. Gnaphalii. Hilbner. — Cu. Gnaphalii. Curtis (^.') — Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. 103. No. 6364. note. 



Size of Cu. Absinthii : head and thorax brown, with white dashes and dusky 

 centre: anterior wings marbled with grayish-ash and brown, with inter- 

 rupted longitudinal black streaks, and a yellowish hne at the base; the 

 streaks near the hinder margin are shorter and finer than towards the base, 

 and the margin itself is dusky or blackish ; cilia brown, with two darker 

 lines at the base; the apex white: posterior wings yeUowish-brown, with 

 ochraceous-white cilia. 



I have never seen an indigenous example of this species, which inhabits the 

 south of Russia and the north-east of Germany, in any of the numerous 

 collections which have come under my inspection : it is introduced by Mr. 

 Cm-tis, in his Synoptic List of the British CucuUia, but without giving the 

 shghtest clew to its locality, capture, &c. ; I therefore conceive that it is in- 

 serted through error, knowing the usual origin of these Synoptic Lists. 



