212 ■ HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



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of several dusky strigge, its centre pale, and having a black dot towards the 

 costa; behind this are other obsolete darker repanded strigs, with an oblique 

 dusky streak at the apex, terminating in an obsolete pale waved striga ; the 

 space between which and the hinder margin is dark rusty-fuscous : posterior 

 wings fuscous at the base, brighter behind the middle, with from one to 

 three dusky transverse strigse ; but in the female they are paler throughout, 

 but similarly strigated: cilia fuscous. 



Rather variable as to tint and the width of the central fascia of the anterior 

 wings; and the strigse on the posterior vary considerably. 



Caterpillar yellowish-green with darker spots ; it feeds upon grasses, especially 

 the Bromus arvensis :— the imago appears at the end of June, and again in 

 August. 



Extremely abundant in some places witliin the metropolitan 

 district, especially in the neiglibonrliood of Hertford and near 

 Ripley. " Durdar, King-moor, Sic." — T. C. Hey sham, Esq. 

 " Alderley, Cheshire."— ^ra. E. Stanley. " Epping."— Jfr. 

 Dotcbleday. " Svvaifham Prior, Cambridgeshire." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 

 " Scarborough." — W. Bean, Esq. " Meldon-park and Tynemoutb, 

 very abundant." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Sp. 3. bipunctaria. Alls anticis alhido-cinereis fusco-undatis, fascia media ob- 

 scuriore in quii puncfis duobus nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 lin.) 



Ph. bipunctaria. Fabricius. — La. bipunctaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 129. JVo. 

 6537. 



Anterior wings cinereous, with two or three darker strigse before the middle, 

 then an unsoUd, crenate, oblique fascia in the middle, composed of undu- 

 lated strigas, in which towards the costa are two contiguous black dots, placed 

 transversely ; between the fascia and the hinder margin is generally a trans- 

 verse striga of fuscous spots, followed by a whitish continuous narrow waved 

 striga, and behind this a row of fuscescent or black dots on the hinder margin 

 itself: posterior wings paler, with obsolete pale strigse towards the hinder 

 margin : cilia of all cinereous. 



Like its congeners, this species varies a little in colour, and in the width and 

 solidity of the transverse fascia? on the anterior wings. 



Caterpillar ashy-gray, with pilose dorsal and lateral Unes, the head small : it 

 feeds on the red darnel (Lolium perenne), trefoil, and other plants : — the imago 

 appears about the beginning or middle of July, frequenting chalky places. 



Somewhat local, but not very rare : it abounds in the fields near 

 Darenth-wood, also near Hertford. " Matlock." — Rev. F. W. Hope. 

 " Tynemoutb." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Sp. 4. multistrigaria. Alis cinerascentibus, strigis fasciolisque niimerosis saiu- 

 ratioribus. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 4 lin.) 



