182 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIBOPTERA. 



Somewhat variable in colour ; sometimes a little varied with yellow : occasionally 

 of a pale hue, or very dark : the strigae are also more or less remote. 



Caterpillar rough, greenish or cinereous, varied with luteous, with the sides 

 spotted with black, and the anterior legs with a dark spot : it varies according 

 to its food, which consists of different kinds of Uchen, especially the Li. om- 

 phalodes : — the imago appears towards the end of July. 



Not uncommon in the larva state at Coombe-wood on old oaks : 

 also in profusion near Broekenburst in the New Forest. " Epping.'' 

 —Mr. DouUeday. " Orton Moss."— T. C. Hey sham, Esq. " SwafF- 

 bam Prior, and near Ely." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Weston-on-tbe- 

 green." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. 



Sp. 3. viduaria. Plate 30. f. 2. Alls albis, nigro-irr oralis, anticis jnmcio 



strigisque tribus dentatis nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 6 lin.) 

 Ge. viduaria. Wien. Ferz.—Cl. viduaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 123. No. 6488. 



White, irrorated with black; anterior wings with three somewhat confused black 

 strigae; the first towards the base, incurved; the second, about the middle, 

 broader, and surrounded by a lighter cloud ; the third flexuous behind the 

 middle, between the two last is a black spot, and towards the apex on the costa 

 is another, from which an obsolete undulated striga sometimes arises: on the 

 hinder margin is a row of black lunules : cilia white, interrupted with fuscous : 

 posterior wings irrorated with fuscous, with a large central spot, and two 

 others on the inner margin, the hinder margin with a fine undulated black 

 line ; cilia immaculate. 



All tbe examples I have seen of this beautiful species were cap- 

 tured in tbe New Forest: tbe first about June, 1822, tbe remainder 

 in 1825 and 1826 : I believe in tbe vicinity of Lyndburst. 



Sp. 4. teneraria. Alls albis, fusco-adspersis, strigis obsoletis maculisque fuscis. 



(Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2—4 Hn.) 

 Ge. teneraria. Hubner.—Cl. teneraria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 123. No. 6489. 



Ashy-white : anterior wings with four equidistant fuscescent spots on the costa, 

 whence arise an equal number of obsolete strigse, of which the first is towards 

 the base and incurved, the third flexuous, and the hinder one waved and 

 bordered externally with whitish ; towards the apex on the hinder margin is 

 a black patch, and in the centre of the wing a black spot ; cilia clouded with 

 fuscous : posterior wings with a central fuscous dot and an obscure transverse 

 striga, the hinder margin with an undulated black line ; cilia white. 



The hinder margin of the anterior wings is sometimes clouded entirely Avith 

 black, with a distinct whitish undulated striga. 



The caterpillar feeds on the Lichen omphalodes, and the imago appears in June 

 or the beginning of July. 



Rare, but very widely distributed : tbe greatest number of spe- 



