194 HAUSTELLATA. LEPIDOPTERA. 



soleteljr continued in fine strigse towards the inner margin: the 

 antennae are differently pectinated, the terminal joints being simple, 

 but very distinct. 



Sp. 1. Vauaria. Alis cinereis, anticisfasciis quatuor nigris abbreviatis inwquali- 



bus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1—3 lin.) 

 Ph. Ge. Vauaria. Linne.—Don. vi. pL 196.— Grammatophora Vauaria. Steph. 



Catal. part n. p. 126. No. 6511. 



Wings ashy- white or cinereous ; the anterior with four equidistant black spots 

 on the costa ; the first a little bent ; the second, frequently obconic, about the 

 middle, extending as a faint flexuous striga towards the inner margin, and ad- 

 joining to it towards the costa is a deep black V ; the third costal spot is 

 placed obliquely, and terminates in an obsolete striga of minute black spots ; 

 the fourth is towards the apex and also placed obliquely, with sometimes a 

 brownish spot attached ; posterior wings rather paler, with a fuscous or black 

 spot in the middle. 



Extremely variable in colour, and also in the form of the lituraeform black costal 

 marks ; in some examples the three anterior ones resemble a roman T when 

 the wings are expanded, and the V-like mark is sometimes placed on the 

 second spot, at others behind it. Some specimens have the wings white, 

 prettily marbled with cinereous ; others are nearly of a sooty black : the latter 

 variety forms the Ge. V nigraria of the Entomological Transactions, pi. 7. f. 3. 



Caterpillar greenish, spotted with black, with a yellow dorsal and lateral Unes ; 

 it feeds on the red currant and gooseberry: — the pupa is brown: — the imago 

 appears abundantly in June and July. 



Extremely abundant in gardens throughout the metropolitan 

 district, the larvse being very destructive to gooseberry-bushes. 

 " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. " Abundant everywhere in Cam- 

 bridgeshire." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Weston-on-the-green." — Reu. 

 A. H. Matthews. " Rockcliff, Scotby, &c."— T. C. Heysham, Esq. 

 " York and Newcastle." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Genus CLXXXIX, — Numeria, Duponchel. 



Talpi distant, subhorizontal, compressed, acuminated, projecting beyond the 

 forehead ; triarticulate, the basal joint somewhat robust, curved ; the second 

 elongate, slightly attenuated at the tip ; terminal very minute, placed obliquely : 

 maxillcE short. Antennce moderate, each joint in the male, excepting four or 

 five at the apex, producing on either side a short incurved ciliated twig, and 

 of the females distinctly serrated within : head small : ei/es globose : thorax 

 slender, slightly squamous : wings entire, pulverulent, the anterior with a 

 transverse dolabriform fascia in the middle, the hinder margin obscurely 

 angulated: the posterior rounded: abdomen slender j acute in the females. 



