214 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



several waved darker strigae ; and on the hinder margin usually a 

 dark geminated spot, anterior to a pale waved striga: the palpi 

 are shorter and more obtuse ; the antennae less pectinated. The 

 genus is so intimately allied to the foregoing, that Duponehel 

 unites the two under the name Eubolia. 



Sp. 1. didymata. Alis cinereis aut albidis nebulosis, anticis fasciis strigisque 

 interruptis fuscis albisque, maculd didymd posticfi fused. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 

 1 unc. 2 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. didymata. Linne. — Ci. didymata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 130. No. 

 6539. 



Cinereous, slightly shining ; anterior wings clouded, with interrupted fuscous 

 and white strigae, the former colour condensed into a somewhat broad fascia 

 in the middle of the wings, and predominating at the base; towards the 

 hinder margin is a distinct bilobed or double brown spot, from the superior 

 lobe of which a blackish oblique streak arises and extends to the apex, but 

 very indistinct in the male ; parallel with the hinder margin, posterior to the 

 spots, is a distinct waved pale line ; posterior wings fuscous, with the margin 

 darker, and one or two pale transverse strigae across the disc. Female nearly 

 white, with the outer edges of the central fascia on the anterior wings, the 

 didymated spots, and the apical streak more conspicuous than in the male, 

 and the fuscous strigae paler. 



Variable in colour, arising from the distance or approximation of the fuscous 

 strigae ; in some cases the anterior wings are trifasciated with fuscous, and in 

 others of a nearly uniform tint : the female is sometimes of a deep ashy- 

 brown. 



Local, but in plenty where found ; it occurs in the utmost pro- 

 fusion in a damp lane near Ripley, and is also abundant near 

 Westerham in Kent, and in Devonshire : the larva is said to feed 

 on the willow. " Weston-on-the-green." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. 

 " Alderley, Cheshire." — Rev. E. Stanley. " Raehills, common." — 

 Rev. W. Little. " Newcastle, Tynemouth, &c." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Sp. 2. munitata. Alis fusco-cinereis aut albidis anticis basi fascidque medio extus 

 obtuse unangulatd rufo-Julvis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 



Ge. munitata. Hubner.—Ci. munitata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 130. No. 6540. 

 Ph. Ge. tristrigaria. Don. xiii. jd/. 461./. 2.'' 



Ashy-brown or whitish ; anterior wings with the base and a broad central fascia 

 rufo-fulvous, the latter edged with a dark fuscous line, and with a few fus- 

 cescent undulated ones on its disc, which latter has a black dot edged with 

 whitish near the costa, and a whitish spot behind ; the outer margin of the 

 fascia is obtusely unangulated, the rest of the wings is faintly strigulated with 



