204 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTEKA. 



on the sides, and some black dots : it feeds on the willow:— the imago appears 

 towards the end of July. 



Rather local; found in some parts of Epping Forest rather plen- 

 tifully ; and abundantly in a marshy lane near Ripley. " Allesley." 

 — Rev.W.T.Bree. " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. "Neale House, 

 Cumberland.'"' — T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Swaffham Prior, Cam- 

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

 A. H. Matthews. 



Sp. 2. vespertaria. Plate 28. f. 3. Alls repandis sinuatis luteis, anticis supra 

 strigd baseos rotundatd rufa, altera intermedia fusca sinuatd, limbo lato, 

 cinereo-rufo. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 2 lin.) 



Ge. vespertaria. Linnc. — Br. vespertaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 128. No. 

 6528. 



Pale luteous, with minute reddish lineolse ; anterior wings with a pale incurved 

 striga before the middle, and a second, sinuated, fuscous one behind, common 

 to all the wings, arising at a distance from the apex of the anterior, the space 

 from the latter to the hinder margin of a rich ashy-red, or purplish; and the 

 centre of all with a dusky spot. Female pale luteous-yellow, with the base 

 of the anterior wings, and the outer margins of aU, ashy-red ; the posterior 

 striga being strongly angulated in all the wings. 



Caterpillar ashy-grey, with a yellowish lateral line in front, and white dots 

 behind, clothed with brown hairs: it feeds on the hazel: — the moth appears 

 about the middle of July. 



Extremely rare in Britain ; all the specimens which have come to 

 my knowledge, about six, were captured in Yorkshire and the 

 adjoining counties. " Floslies." — T. C. Heysham, Esq. 



Sp. 3. advenaria. Alis subrepandis palUde cinereis, strigis duabus atomisque 



fuscis, limbo pallida. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 2 hn.) 

 Ge. advenaria. Hilbner. — Br. advenaria. Steph, Catal. part W. p. 128. No. 6525. 



i'Sp. 4. dilectaria. Alis pallide Jlavis, lineis anticis duabus maculisque ferru~ 



gineis ; posticis lined unicd. 

 Ge. dilectaria. Hilbner.— Haiuorth (! ) — Br. dilectaria. Steph. Catal. part ii- 



p. 128. No. 6526, note. 



Wings pale yellow, the anterior with ferruginous spots and two strigae, the 



posterior with one striga. 

 Mr. Haworth suspects he has seen this insect in some collections, on which 



slight authority it has recently been given as an undoubted indigenous species ; 



but as I have not yet seen an example in any of the collections that have 



come under my inspection, I consider that it is not indigenous. 



