118 IIAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



of the costa, two oblique parallel snowy-white, somewhat silvery, fasciae, 

 broadest on the costa, and attenuated towards the inner margin, the second 

 fascia arising rather beyond the middle of the costa and reaching to the anal 

 angle, and throwing off a denticulation interiorly at a little distance from its 

 origin ; near the apex of the costa is a small comma-shaped white spot, and 

 the hinder margin is white : cilia white, with minute olivaceous dots : posterior 

 wings greyish- white irrorated with olive ; ciHa white. 

 Caterpillar green, with a whitish lateral line :— the imago appears towards the 

 end of June or beginning of July. 



This species was originally described by Fabricius as a native of 

 England; but till within these ten years no indigenous cabinet 

 that I have inspected contained an example : about the above period 

 Mr. HaM^orth found a considerable number of specimens in Norfolk, 

 I believe near Beachamwell, amongst reeds and rushes in a boggy 

 situation, and kindly supplied me with specimens. 



Sp. 4. venustula. Alls anticis albidis, medio viargineque externa Juscis, vittd 



media rosea punctoque nigro. (Exp. alar. 8 — 9 lin.) 

 No. venustula. Hilbner.—Er. venustula. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 109. No. 



6402. 



Head and thorax whitish-grey: anterior wings whitish, or rather marbled with 

 brown and whitish, the hinder margin and a triangular patch behind the 

 disc being of the latter colour, with a rosy vitta, and a rather conspicuous 

 elongate black spot about the centre of the wing ; between this patch and the 

 posterior margin are some delicate pale fuscous and whitish striga, and at the 

 base of the wings two or three undulated ones of the former hue ; near the 

 apex of the costa is a fuscous patch ; the cilia are brown with a rosy tinge, 

 and spotted with dusky : posterior wings whitish-brown, with rosy- white cilia. 



Caterpillar reddish-brown, with two broad orange-yellow belts, and a dusky 

 dorsal stripe, and curved lateral streaks. 



An extremely rare species, of which I have hitherto seen four 

 examples only; — a pair in my own cabinet; one of the latter taken, 

 I believe, in Epping Forest by the late Mr. Honey, the other by 

 the late Mr. Bentley. 



Sp. 5. minuta. Alls anticis albis, postice fasciis duabus irreguIariLus olivaceo- 



Jlavescentihus, strigaque punctorum, minutorum atrorum. (Exp. alar. 9 lin.) 

 No. minuta. Hilbner ?— Er. minuta. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 109. No. 6403. 



Head and thorax of a creamy- white : anterior wings the same, with an irregular 

 rather broad olivaceous-yellow fascia a little beyond the middle, in which are 

 some tints of rufous and lead-colour, arising from two distinct costal spots 

 and nearly obsolete for a short distance from its origin ; behind this is an un- 

 dulated white striga, and then a second fascia of olivaceous-yellow, clouded as 

 before, and bearing, parallel with, and near, the hinder margin a distinct row 



