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Head and thorax black, clothed with reddish-brown hairs; anterior wings 

 glaucescent, with an oblique fuscous fascia near the base, and another a 

 little behind the middle, in which is a lunular pale stigma; on the costa, 

 between the second fascia and the tip of the wing, is a subquadrate or 

 triangular fuscous spot, and the hinder itself is also fuscous; cilia brown, 

 immaculate: posterior wings luteous, with the base and inner edge broadly 

 black, or dusky, the nervures (except near the costa), two interrupted, irre- 

 gular strigse, and the hinder margin, also dusky; cilia brown, sometimes 

 with slightly paler clouds. 



The fascia; on the anterior wings vary in width, and intensity of colouring: in 

 some instances they are situated close together, in others tliey are remote ; 

 and are occasionally nearly obliterated. 



Caterpillar rusty-griseous, with a fuscous dorsal and lateral streak, and a row 

 of blackish dots above and beneath the latter : it feeds on the Verbasci and 

 Trifolium pratense. 



Not an uncommon species in fields and the borders of woods, 

 where clover is cultivated, throughout the metropolitan district. 

 "Netley, Matlock, and North Whales." — Rev. F. W. Hope. 

 " Halifex."— TF. C. Heuitson, Esq. " Pretty common; Rock- 

 cliff, Durdan, Orton, &c."— T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Monks'-wood, 

 Hunts."— C. C. Babmgton, Esq. " Epping."— J//'. H. Douhledaij. 



Sp. 3. Mi. Alis anticis nigro alboque variis, posticisJlavescentihus,fasciis venis- 



que nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1—2 Hn.) 

 Ph. No. Mi. imwe.— Eu. Mi. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 114. No. 6435. Harris, 



A. pi. 41./ 5. 

 Black, with ochraceous and whitish dots: anterior wings black, varied with 



flexuous white, or flavescent, strigae, the stigmata distinct, black, the anterior 



small, round, the posterior larger, somewhat ovate: posterior wings flavescent. 



fSp. 2. triquetra. Alis anticis cinereis, maculis fuscis trujuetris ; postias 



Jlavis,fusco-fasciatis. 

 No. triquetra. Wien. Terz.— S'awzo?<e//e f/ J— Eu. triquetra. Ste ph. Catal. part \i. 



p. 114. No. 6434. note. 

 Cinereous : the anterior wings varied with cinereous and fuscous, with a large 



triangular black spot in the middle, and behind this three other fuscous ones 



that are nearly united : the posterior wings yellowish, with a fascia and the 



posterior inargin fuscous. 

 This species is erroneously introduced in the Entomologist's Compendium, by 



mistake, for the preceding species : it does not inhabit Britain, so far as the 



inspection of the numerous collections which have come beneath my notice 



indicate, but is a native of Hungary and Italy. 



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