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Tale cinereous or flavescent, minutely sprinkled with pale fuscous: anterior 

 wings with an angulated fuscous striga near the base, and a second somewhat 

 recurved one behind the middle, with the space between rather darker, giving 

 the margin a paler appearance ; towards the apex a small undefined whitish 

 spot; posterior with a blackish dot in the middle, and a pale repanded fuscous 

 striga behind; the hinder margin of all the wings with a pale fuscous hne; 

 the cilia ashy interrupted with fuscous. 



Caterpillar anteriorly grey-brown, dotted with black, the fifth segment with 



two snow-white spots, the next mottled with whitish and grey : it feeds on 



the whortle-berry (Vaccinium Myrtillus) : - the imago appears about the 



middle of June. 



Rare ; found occasionally in the woods to the north of London, 



between Highgate and Hampstead, and at Colney-hatch. 



Genus CXCIV.— Eurymene, Duponchel. 



Pa/joz stout, porrected obliquely, rather beyond the head, the apical joint con- 

 cealed; triarticulate, the basal joint robust, short, curved, the second longer, 

 straight, terminal minute, globose : maxillw rather long. Antenna incurved, 

 slightly bipectinated nearly to the apex in the males, the apical joints simple 

 and rather stout ; in the females obsoletely serrated within : Iiead with the front 

 very prominent : e7/es globose: thorax slender, slightly velvety : wings partially 

 expanded during repose; anterior narrow, with the hinder margin subtrun- 

 cate and excised towards the anal angle; posterior large, rounded; also with 

 the hinder margin somewhat excised towards the anal angle, which is rather 

 acute and prominent ; all without strigiE, the anterior with elongate streaks, 

 and all with a dark ustulated spot at the anal angle : abdomen rather long, 

 stout and carinated in the females. Larva with 10 legs, the second and 

 eighth segments tuberculated, head slightly emarginated in front: pupa 

 elongate, formed in a slight web amongst leaves. 



The narrow, elongate, retuse, angulated anterior wings, the 

 surface of which is irregularly and transversely streaked, without 

 distinct striga, and a dark cloud at the anal angles of all, combined 

 with the large posterior ones, stout, obtuse palpi, prominent fore- 

 head, and slightly pectinated antennae of the males, serve to point 

 out the more evident external characters which distinguish this 

 genus from its congeners. 



Sp. 1. dolabraria. Alis rufescentibus aid suhflavescentibus lineolis tenuissimis 

 irregularibus confertis ustulatis, basi viaculuque anguli ani ustulato-purpura- 

 scentibus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2 — 5 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. dolabraria. Linne.-Don. x. pi. 341./. l—Br. dolabraria. Steph. CataL 

 part ii. p. 128. No. 6529. 



