114 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



No. Solaris. Wien. Te/-::.— Ac. Solaris. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 108. No. 6395. 



Head and thorax white, immaculate : anterior wings white at the hase, with a 

 minute deep-black spot thereon, and a larger fuscous one on the costa ; the 

 posterior half of the wing is fuscous, the white of the base forming an acute 

 angle on the disc; a little beyond the middle on the costa is a large quadrate 

 white spot, adjacent to which is a black one on the fuscous ground; the anal 

 angle of the hinder margin is white, with three bluish-ash clouds; the hinder 

 margin itself is rather cinerascent, and the posterior stigma has its margins 

 bluish-white, forming the figure 8 ; on the hinder margin is a row of minute 

 black dots ; cilia fuscous, with the portion at the anal angle white : posterior 

 wings creamy- white, with a broad fuscous fimbria ; cilia white. 



Caterpillar griseous, striated, with the head testaceous, each segment with two 

 white spots: — it feeds on the trefoil (Trifolium), dandehon (Leontodon 

 Taraxicum), &c. &c. 



A single specimen of this insect, whence the accompanying figure 

 was designed, was in the late Mr. Marsham's collection, but of its 

 locality I am not aware ; two examples were, however, taken within 

 the metropolitan range about ten years since, and four others near 

 Dover above six years ago; all but the first were rescued from 

 oblivion through the zeal of Mr. Stone. 



i Sp. 4. Caloris. Alis anticis basi niveis, coeruleo strigatis, reliqua parte fusco 

 eosruleoque marmoratis, macula alba ad marginein anterioreni quadrat a ; 

 posticis albidis,fascid latdfuscCt. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 lin.?) 



No. Caloris. Hubner.—Kc. Caloris. Steph. Catal. part ii. jo. 109. No. 6396. 



Head fuscous; thorax white, with yellowish shades; anterior wings snow-white 

 at the base, with bluish strigae ; the rest of the wing marbled with bluish and 

 fuscous, with a quadrate white spot on the costa, as in the foregoing insect ; 

 on the hinder margin is an undulated whitish striga ; cilia part brown, part 

 white, with black dots : posterior wings whitish, with a broad fuscous marginal 

 band ; cilia white. 



Of this beautiful insect also a single example only is known ; it 

 formed one of the prominent ornaments of Mr. Plastead's col- 

 lection ; of its locality I am ignorant. 



+ Sp. 3. nigrirena. Alis albidis fusco maculatis, stigmate antico punctiforiiii, 



postico magno reniformi nigra. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 lin.) 

 Phy. nigrirena. Haworth. — Ac. nigrirena. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 109. iVo. 6397. 



Wings whitish, spotted with fuscous: the anterior stigma very small; the 



posterior large, reniform, black. 

 The above description was made several years since by Mr. Haworth from the 



specimen mentioned below : — I have seen the one in question, and ascertained 



