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Sp. 2. carbonaria. Alis omnibus satw'ate piceo-fuscis, punctis parvis alhidis, 



ciliis albis fuscisque. (Exp. alar. 1 1 lin.) 

 Ge. carbonaria. Haworth. — Fi. carbonaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 1 1 5. No. 



6442. 



Dull-brown, with minute paler irrorations: wings deep pitchy-black, with a 

 few whitish spots or blotches: cilia whitish and fuscous: antennas black, 

 irregularly annulated with white. 



Probably a mere suffused variety of the preceding. 



Taken on lieaths near London, in the middle of June. 



Sp. 3. fuliginaria. Nigra, alis strigis trihus Jlavescentihus undatis subiiiier- 



ruptis. (Exp. alar. 1 1 lin.) 

 Ge. fuliginaria. Haworth. — Fi. fuliginaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. l]5.No. 



6440. 

 Black: wings with undulated flavescent strigre, the first near the base a little 



bent, and sometimes evanescent ; the second, common to all, a Uttle behind 



the middle, and curved outwardly; the third obscure and towards the margin ; 



behind this is a common obscure striga of flavescent dots. 

 This may be the Ge. fuliginarius of Linne, as referred to by Mr. Haworth ; but 



whether it is synonymous with the Ge. carbonaria of Hiibner, which Treitschke 



and Duponchel place in the genus Gnophos, is doubtful. 



Extremely rare in this country : three or four examples only 

 have been captured in the neig-hbourhood of London during the 

 last thirty years ; one fine specimen, which is now in Mr, Bentley's 

 cabinet, was caught upon Blackfriars-bridge in June, about twelve 

 years since. " In a coal-cellar at Little Chelsea." — A. H. Ha- 

 worth, Esq. 



Sp. 5. ericetaria. Alts cinereis, fusco-irroratis, anticis striga medid Jimbridque 

 saturatiorihus. (Exp. alar. (? 1 unc. 7 — 8Hn. : ^ 1 unc. 3— 6 lin.) 



;};Sp. 4. melanaria. Alis nigro punctatis maculatisgue : anticis albidis, posticis 



luteis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 lin.) 

 Ph. Ge. melanaria. Linni.— Haworth (.'). — N. G. melanaria. Steph. Catal. 



part ii. p. 137. No. 6591. note. 



Anterior wings dirty-white, with several rows of black spots of various sizes, 

 the last row terminating the hinder margin ; posterior luteous, irregularly 

 spotted with black, the outer series parallel with the margin. 



Mr. Haworth says, " I have heard that this is a British species, and therefore 

 here enumerate it, although I have not seen any but foreign specimens." 

 Which being the case with me compels me to insert the description in a note. 



