188 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



insect ; beyond these is an undulated white striga, and on the hinder margin 



a fine black line, sometimes interrupted. 

 Extremely variable; in some instances the colour of the wings is of a bluish-ash, 



or lead-colour, with the strigse and markings very obscure ; at others they are 



slightly varied with cinereous and fuscous ; and the strigae are individually 



more or less obliterated or distinct. 

 Caterpillar yellowish-green, with a reddish head, a broad yellow lateral streak, and 



two fine blackish lines : — the imago appears towards the beginning of July, and 



frequents gardens and woody places. 



Extremely common in gardens within the metropolitan district, 

 frequenting even the centre of the metropolis itself. " Alderley, 

 Cheshire."— i?^t;. E. Stanley. " Epping."— i!fr. DouUeday. « Mel- 

 don-park, Newcastle, &c." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Sp. 9. consobrinaria. Alls griseo-fuscis atomosis strigis communibus saturation- 

 bus, alter dque posticd ochraceo-albidd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 10 lin.) 



Ge. consobrinaria. Haworth.—Al. consobrinaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 1 24. 

 iVo.6501. 



Of a griseous brown, sometimes tinged with ochraceous or pale ferruginous, 

 sprinkled with fuscous, and with three very distinct darker strigae as in the 

 foregoing species, and another pale-ochraceous white waved one towards the 

 hinder margin, which is sometimes nearly obsolete. 



Varies much in colour, some examples being nearly as pale as Al, consortaria, 

 others very dark, tinted with a rich ochraceous, and very strongly marked. 



This insect is scarcely the Geo. consobrinaria of Hiibner, which last appears 

 rather to be synonymous with the Boarmia Abietaria of this work, according 

 to Duponchel. 



Not uncommon in the New Forest and in Devonshire ; but rarely, 

 if ever, found near London. 



Sp. 10. fimbriaria. — Plate 30. f. 1. — Alls cinereo-griseis, fimbria latd fused, 

 in qua strigd obsoletd alba, anticis puncto medio nigro. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 6 lin.) 



Al. fimbriaria. Stejih. Catal. part ii. p. 125. No. 6502. 



Griseous-ash ; anterior wings with a central black dot, and some dusky irro- 

 rations, especially at the base and towards the costa ; the hinder margin from 

 the outside of the third ordinary striga deep fuscous, with an obsolete striga 

 of lunular white spots ; the posterior wings also irrorated with fuscous at the 

 base, with the hinder margin broadly fuscous, and having an obsolete striga 

 of white lunular spots as in the anterior : cilia fuscous. 



Of this distinct species I possess a single example in fine con- 

 dition : it was taken, I believe, in Suffolk. 



