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striirS com^nuni feTTugined serrieque punctornm nigrorum. (Exp. alar. 1 unc 

 1—2 lin.) 

 Ph. Ge. punctaria. Linne. — Cy. punctaria. Steph. Catal. part i\. p. 127. No. 

 6522. — Pli. Ge. communifasciata. Don. xiii. pi. iSQ. 



Wino-s rufescent, or yellowish, sprinkled with minute black dots, with a com- 

 mon central ferruginous or fuscous striga, and a series of black dots towards 

 the hinder margin, the latter with a slender interrupted black line: posterior 

 wings generally palest. 



Extremely variable : the central striga is sometimes nearly obliterated, and at 

 others is very broad, and accompanied anteriorly with a row of black dots; 

 the usual series of black dots is occasionally wanting, and the wings in some 

 instances are scarcely freckled ; and they are sometimes entirely of a pale 

 luteous-yellow, without the sHghtest tinge of red. 



Caterpillar brownish or yellowish green, with some reddish and yellow streaks on 

 the sides; it feeds on the oak;— the pupa is reddish, with the apex yellowish: 

 —the imago appears first in May, and a second time in August. 



Also very abundant near London, perhaps the most frequent of 

 the genus, affecting woods, copses, bushy lanes, &c. " Epping." 

 —Mr. Douhleday. " Hesket-moss."— T. C. Heysliam., Esq. 



Sp. 8. trilinearia. Alls luteis, strigis tribus communibus fuscis, medio latiore. 



(Exp. alar. 1 unc, 1— 2§ lin.) 

 Ge. trilinearia. ^oT-ArAazwen.—Cy. trilinearia. Steph. Catal. part \\. p. 127. iVo. 



6523. 

 Bright clear luteous : wings with a very indistinct striga before the middle ; a 



second repanded one, composed of black dots, behind the middle ; and a third 



broader fasciseforra one in the middle, nearly straight; on the hinder margin 



is a fine interrupted black line. 

 Shghtly variable as to the comparative distances of the strigse from each other ; 



and in some instances the first and third are totally obliterated ; the wings 



being clear immaculate luteous, with a single central fuscous striga. 



Rare near London : I have taken it in a shattered condition at 

 Birch-wood : but in the New Forest (whence I have received several 

 examples) it appears to be more abundant. " Epping."— Mr. 

 Douhleday. 



Genus CXCIL — Bradyepetes * miJii. 



Palpi distant, slender, short, not porrected beyond the head, slightly squamous: 

 the terminal joint very slender and acuminated ; triarticulate, the basal joint 



* B.9a§£/K, tarditas ; •jr-Toy.a.i., volo. 



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