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Sp. 4. respersaria. Alis cinereis, atomis fuscis undique adspersis, strigis tribus 



seu quatuor fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 6 lin.) 

 Ge. respersaria. Hilbner. — As. respersaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 129. No. 



6534. 



Wings cinereous or whitish, more or less thickly freckled with fuscousj the 

 anterior with three, and occasionally four, oblique fuscous strigiE ; the posterior 

 with three transverse ones 5 the position of the strigs is very variable; in 

 some examples there are only three equidistant ones; sometimes the two 

 anterior are united ; again there are occasionally three equidistant ones and 

 a fourth repanded one, arising at the apex of the third on the costa: in the 

 posterior wings the central striga is generally the most powerful, and the outer 

 one usually approximates towards it: the strigte again vary much as to 

 intensity, and in rare instances some of them are obliterated. 



Caterpillar yellowish, with a brownish lateral stripe, and black dots and two 

 ashy-grey ones on the back ; it feeds on the broom : — the imago appears about 

 the middle of June, and frequents heaths where broom occurs. 



Not uncommon on heaths within the metropolitan district where 

 broom abounds, especially near Coombe-wood, also in the New 

 Forest near Brockenhurst. 



Genus CXCVIL — Phasiane, Dupoiichel. 



Palpihng, horizontally porrected, very squamous : the terminal joint exposed, 

 acute; triarticulate, the basal jointratherstout, curved; second shorter, slender; 

 terminal minute, acuminate ; 7naxiU(e long. Antenna; slightly bipectinated in 

 the males almost to the apex, which last is pubescent within; in the females 

 obscurely serrated : liead with a conical projection in front : thorax slender : 

 wings entire, with the hinder margins rounded, slightly expanded during 

 repose; the anterior with the apex acute, with a dot between two transverse 

 nearly parallel striga?, and an oblique line at the apex : abdomen elongate and 

 slender in the males; shorter and stouter in the females: legs moderate. 



Phasiane — a name perhaps too near Phasianus to be tolerated — 

 according to Duponchel may be known by having the anterior 

 wings with a dot between two transverse, nearly straight, and 

 almost parallel lines ; with the palpi pointed and extending beyond 

 the forehead : to which may be added that the antennse of the 

 males are not pectinated to the apex, and the legs are of moderate 

 length, by which last characters it differs from Aspilates. 



Sp. 1. plumbaria. Alis cinereo-plumbeis, fascia viedid obscuriore, strid apicis 

 oblique fused. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 lin.) 



