geometiiid;e. — cleora. 183 



cimen known were taken in the New Forest. " Near Asliburton." — 

 Dr. Leach. " Dalmeny, near Ecliii burgh. "—/?^u. W. Little. 



Sp. 5. cinctaria. Alis cinereis, fusco-irroratis, fascid haseos et disco maculisque 

 fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6—8 lin.) 



Ge. cinctaria. Wien. Ver%.—C\. cinctaria. Curtis, ii. pi. 88. — Steph. Catal. part 

 ii. p. 123. No. 6490. 



Cinereous, variegated with ochraceous, and more or less thickly irrorated with 

 fuscous ; near the base a transverse curved fuscescent or black fascia, with a pale 

 striga between 5 behind the middle an indented one; between them is an oval, 

 or lunular, ring ; towards the hinder margin an undulated pale striga, the mar- 

 gin itself more or less clouded with dark fuscous : posterior wings paler, with 

 a lunular ring in the centre, with several transverse sinuated lines, the interior 

 of which are black-edged externally with pale cinereous, the outer one entirely 

 pale cinereous ; on the hinder margin of all the wings is an interrupted row of 

 small lunular spots : abdomen whitish at the base, frequently with a black 

 line behind it. 



Extremely variable: in some instances the wings are nearly of an uniform fusces- 

 cent hue, with three transverse striga; scarcely visible; while in others they are 

 very pale, with the strig* very broad and black, forming distinct fascia; across 

 the wings ;— the ocellar spot in the disc is occasionally wanting. 



Not very rare, but local, in the New Forest, whence I have seen 

 upwards of fifty examples, which I believe chiefly occurred in the 

 vicinity of Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst, in May and June. 



Sp. 6. pictaria. Alis cinereis, anticis strigis duabus undatis punctoque interjecto 



atro, posticis pallidioribus. (Exp. alar. ^ 1 unc. 1 i Un.) 

 Ge. pictaria. T/tM7iZ»erg-.— CI. pictaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 123. iVo. 64.91. 



Cinereous ; anterior wings irrorated with fuscous, with a waved curved striga 

 towards the base, and a second considerably undulated one behind the middle 

 of a darker hue, with a distinct rounded spot between them, towards the costa: 

 the posterior wings paler, with an obscure waved striga a little behind the 

 middle, and thickly irrorated with fuscous on the inner margin : all the wings 

 have a row of distinct minute black dots on the hinder margin at the base of 

 the cilia, which are cinereous : antennse reddish ; body with a row of white 

 spots down the back. 



This insect (of which two females only have hitherto been taken in Britain to 

 my knowledge) seems to depart from the rest of the genus, but until the male 

 is discovered it is not easy to assign a better location for it: in some respects 

 it approaches to the Fidonia cineraria, but differs from that in form :— it is not 

 without reluctance that I associate the insect in this genus, as, from being a 

 warm advocate for placing discordant species in genera by themselves, it 

 appears ridiculous to incumber nearly every genus, as is too frequently the 

 case with some writers, with such species— a proceeding that, far from 

 advancing knowledge, most clearly leads to error and confusion. 



