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HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



field by tlie servant of Mr. Stickney of Ryliill, near Holderness."— 

 P. W. Watson, Esq. " Near Lowes toif, in Suffolk, in Sept. 1828." 

 — Mr. G. Waterhouse. 



Sp. 3. Nupta. Alls anticis cinerascentibus, strigisjlexuosis, posticis dilute ruhris, 

 fascid media Jlexuosd abbreviate viargineque nigris, abdomine supra canu. 



(Exp. alar. 3 unc— 3 unc. 6 lin,) 

 Ph. No. Nupta. Linne.~Ca. nupta. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 112. No. 6425. 



Harris, A. pi. IS.J'.g — m. 



Head and thorax dusky-gray^ the latter with some transverse darker lines 

 anteriorly, and two whitish or hoary spots ; anterior wings cinerascent, thickly 

 sprinkled with minute black dots, with an abbreviated dusky striga at the 

 base, an undulated duplex one before the middle, a flexuous and angulose 

 one behind the middle, and a pale waved one towards the hinder margin, 

 with an irregular fasciseforra one in the middle, in which is a distinct, 

 somewhat ear-shaped mark; on the hinder margin is a series of somewhat 

 lunular black spots, margined exteriorly with cinereous ; cilia pale cinereous, 

 with a dusky central streak : posterior wings pale red, with a flexuous and 

 slightly angulated irregular dull black fascia, not reaching to the inner 



Sp. 2. Elocata. Alis anticis fusco cinereoque nebulosis ; -posticis rubris, fascia 

 media rotundata viargineque nigris. (Exp. alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.) 



No. Elocata. Esper. — Ca. Elocata. Cur tis, y. pi. 217. {[)— Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. 111. No. 6424. note. 



Ashy-gray, head and thorax minutely dotted with black ; anterior wings the 

 same, with a slender waved striga towards the base, a denticulated waved line 

 beyond the middle, followed by an angulated waved fuscous striga near the 

 posterior margin, and upon the margin itself a row of dots, black anteriorly 

 and ochraceous exteriorly; towards the centre of the wing is an undefined 

 dark fascia, in which are two obscure spots ; posterior wings pale scarlet, 

 with a regularly curved dull black fascia in the middle, tapering towards the 

 inner margin, a broad fimbria of the same colour, and on the margin a large 

 scarlet spot and some smaller ones. 



This fine insect presents a conspicuous instance of the baneful practice of 

 mixing foreign and indigenous productions together, particularly when 

 undistinguished by any memorandum or label, as, in consequence of an 

 lUnticketed specimen having been detected in the collection of the late Mr. 

 Blunt, this species has not only been selected and figured as a British example 

 of the genus Catocala, but the error has been subsequently copied into 

 Loudon's Magazine, whereas the specimen in question which has thus impro- 

 perly been introduced into our Fauna was obtained direct from Oporto by its 

 lat€ regretted possessor, who unfortunately was too prone to admit dubious 

 insects into his collection, and permitted the present, with DeUephila Galii, 

 and some three or four other foreign species, to disfigure his cabinet. 



