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so-called, corrected list of British insects ; in which the same name 

 is also employed to designate the present genus, as well as the two 

 above referred to, and which are arranged by him in a totally different 

 situation, next to the genus Lozogramma. The true Larentise, 

 embracing part of the Eubolise of Duponchel, may be distinguished 

 by having the anterior wings acute, as in several of the foregoing 

 genera, and traversed in the middle by an unsolid band, composed 

 of several parallel lines, more or less undulated, with an oblique 

 streak at the apex, and the palpi long, porrected in form of a beak, 

 and acute. 



Sp. 1. cervinata. Alls anticis fitsco-ferrugineis, fascid media obscuriore ad 

 margines grisescente, strigdque posticd albd undulatissivid, posticis fuscescenti- 

 bus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 8 — 11 lin.) 



Ge. cervinata. Wien. Verz.—La. cervinata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 129. 

 No. 6535. 



Anterior wings rusty-brown, the base darker edged with a white striga^ 

 towards the middle a broad dark-brown fascia, in which are several darker un- 

 dulated strigae, and the edges are griseous-whitej near the hinder margin is 

 a very small waved whitish striga, and at the apex an obscure darkish line ; 

 behind the whitish striga the wings are darker, and the cilia are fuscous with 

 darker spots : posterior wings brownish, with a darker striga in the middle, 

 and some obsolete paler ones on the hinder margin. 



The fascia on the anterior wings varies exceedingly in its width ; in some ex- 

 amples it occupies nearly one-third of the wings, while in others (though very 

 rarely) it is so much attenuated behind as almost to be divided towards the 

 inner margin of the wings; all intermediate widths occur. 



Caterpillar dull-green, with yellowish margins to the segments, the sides yel- 

 lowish; also the anterior legs yellow: it feeds on the mallow: — the imago 

 appears about the middle of Octobex". 



Not very common in the south of England, occurring late in the 

 season : I have taken it at Hertford and in the vicinity of London ; 

 it also occurs at Darenth and Coombe Woods, " Epping." — Mr. 

 Douhleday. " Newcastle, Meldon-park, he." — G. Wailes, Esq. 

 " Raehills, common." — Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 2. Chenopodiata. Alis anticis fulvo-ferrugineis, strigis fascidque compositd 



medio, in qua puncto nigro, lineoldque obliqud apicis, saturatioribus. (Exp. 



alar. 1 unc. 2 — 4 lin.) 

 Ph. Ge. Chenopodiata. Linne. — La. Chenopodiata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 129. 



No. 6536. Harris A. pi. 33. f. n. 

 Anterior wings rusty-fulvous or slightly plumbous, with various obsolete 



undulated strigae before the middle, then a broad repanded fascia, composed 



