102 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. * 



the present species appearing towards the end of June *, and frequenting lanes 

 in preference to woods ; a point to which my attention was called by an old 

 practical collector^ Mr- J. Standish, sen., who, although now verging upon 

 fourscore, still follows his favourite pursuit with considerable ardour. 



Found in the lanes near Darentli-wood and Hertford, and pro- 

 bably in other parts ; but, from having been hitherto confounded 

 with the foregoing, I am not certain of other localities. 



Sp. 3. bimaculata. Alis anticis fusco-brunneo Jerrugineoque variis,^ maculis 



duabus aureis, (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 lin.) 

 PI. inscripta? Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 105. No. 6377. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen as in the last described : anterior wings varied with 

 fuscous-brown and ferruginous, with a biundulated golden striga at the base, 

 enclosing a black spot, then another, similarly coloured, before the stigmata ; 

 much angulated at the origin on the costa, and waved interiorly, followed, 

 behind the stigmata, by an obscure crenulated bent one, without metallic 

 ornament ; stigmata very obsolete, without golden edges : on the disc are two 

 large bright golden spots, the anterior emarginated towards the base, and 

 rounded posteriorly; the hinder triangular-ovate; between the anterior one 

 and the costa is a faint golden lunule, as in PL Iota ; ciUa rufescent, immacu- 

 late : posterior wings reddish-ash, with a central lunule, an oblique striga, 

 the hinder margin and the nervures dusky. 



A single example of this beautiful and remarkably distinct insect 

 — which is not the No. inscripta of Esper — was obtained by me from 

 the Marshamian collection, where it was placed as the opposite sex 

 of PI. Iota; — ^of its locality I am ignorant. 



Sp. 4. interrogationis. Alls anticis atro cinereoque variis, in medio litterd u 

 punctoque contiguo argenteis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 Un.) 



Ph. No. interrogationis. Linne. — PI. interrogationis. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 105. 

 JVo. 6378. — PI. aurosignata. Don. viii. pi. 453. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen of an ashy-gray, intermixed with darker shades : 

 anterior wings of a bluish ashy-gray, prettUy marbled with deep black, in 

 some examples with a purplish or rosy tinge ; the ordinary strigae are not 

 always very distinct, the second and third are, however, geminated, and the 



* The continental writers state that there are three broods of PI. Iota annually, the first 

 in April, the second towards the end of June, and the third in the beginning of July : — 

 from their own showing, therefore, it is evident that there must be more than one species 

 confounded under the above name, as it is clear that the .June brood cannot produce again 

 in so short a period as the commencement of July ; — is it not, therefore, probable that one 

 species may be single brooded, and the other double, as in A'^anesste Polvchloros and Urtics ? 



