ISfi HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



dots, the anterior with a broad central fascia, incurved within and bilobed 

 without, and gradually attenuated towards the inner margin : this fascia is 

 continued, as it were, on the posterior wings, its outer margin being waved : the 

 hinder margin of all the wings is rufo-fuscescent, with a flexuous whitish striga 

 within ; and some lunular black streaks, sometimes united, on its extreme edge 

 at the base of the cilia, the latter pale griseous-ash, with darker clouds. 

 Treitschke considers this insect to be a mere variety of Al. repandaria, but I 

 cannot coincide with that opinion, from its rarity near London, and the fre- 

 quency with which it occurs in the West of England and in Ireland. 



Very rare near London ; a single example only, so far as I am 

 aware, having hitherto been captured within the metropolitan 

 district, which was taken by my late friend, Mr. Blunt, in Darenth- 

 wood, in July, 1819;— in Devonshire specimens have more fre- 

 quently occurred, and also " near Dublin." — JV. A. Vigors, Esq. 

 " Kimpton, in June."— i^eu. G. T. Rudd. " High Bickington, 

 Devon."— r. Cocks, Esq. 



Sp. 5. sericearia. Alls holosericeo-fuscis aut testaceis, atomis ochraceis strigisque 

 nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 10 lin. — 2 unc.) 



Al. sericearia. Curtis, m. pi. 113. — Stepli. Catal. part ii. p. 124. No. 6496. 



Silky-brown or testaceous, irregularly sprinkled with ochraceous ; anterior wings 

 with the base very dark, an indented striga beyond the middle, and an obscure 

 interrupted waved one near the posterior margin; on the disc towards the 

 costa a transverse black spot ; posterior wings rather paler, with'' the base 

 fuscous ; an obscure transverse line in the centre, beyond which is a waved 

 transverse striga, dark within and pale without ; the hinder margin irregu- 

 larly speckled with elongate, united, ochraceous spots; the hinder margin 

 itself of all the wings with a few black dots ; ciUa fuscous, interrupted with 

 ochraceous. 



All the examples of this beautiful species (which approaches 

 closely to the Boarmia Abietaria of Duponchel) that have come 

 beneath my notice were taken in July, 1826, in the New Forest, 

 somewhere between Brockenhurst and Lyndhurst. 



Sp. 6. consortaria. Alis griseo-cinereis, atomis numerosis fuscis, strigis obso- 

 letis dentatis saturatiorihus, posticis puncto ocellari albido. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 10 lin.— 2 unc.) 



Rh. consortaria. Fabricius.—Don. x.pL 333. f. 2.— Al. consortaria. Steph. Catal. 

 part ii. p. 124. No. 6497. 



Pale griseous-ash, very thickly sprinkled throughout with minute fuscous dots? 

 with three or four interrupted obsolete darker dentate strigse, of which the 

 one next behind the middle is generally the most conspicuous, and that to- 

 wards the hinder margin is usually accompanied without with a whitish 



