222 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sp. 2. ocellata. Alis albidis, fasciis duabus coeruleo-fuscescentihus macuMque 

 apicis oceUari didymd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1—2 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. ocellata. Linne.—Ha.. ocellata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 132. No. 6553. 

 Wilkes's Designs, pi. 10. f. 3. 



Wings whitish ; anterior with a triangular fuscous fascia at the base, and a 

 broader subdolabriform one in the middle of a purphsh- or bluish-black, 

 having a conspicuous black dot within, towards the costa ; between the fasciae 

 are some ashy clouds, and on the costa, behind the second fascia, are some 

 shghtly curved cinereous strigse ; adjoining to which are two black, some- 

 what ocellated spots, with a pale waved line, and the hinder margin beyond 

 slightly suffused with fuscous: posterior wings with a black dot; the hinder 

 margin slightly fuscescent : cilia fuscous. 



It varies in being much more shaded with cinereous between the fascise, and 

 also in having the fascise of a broader or narrower width, and one of the didy- 

 mated spots is sometimes deficient. 



Caterpillar brown, with a white lateral hue : it feeds on the Galium sylvaticum : 

 —the imago appears in the beginning of June, and towards the end of August. 



Common in some places near London, especially near Ripley: 

 also taken at Coombe, Birch, and Darentli Woods, and near 

 Hertford : in tLe New Forest and in Devonshire. " Durdar." — 

 T. C. Heysham, Esq. " Weston-on-the-g-reen." — Rev. A. H. 

 Matthews. " Tynemouth.'" — G. Wailes, Esq. " Epping." — Mr. 

 Douhleday. 



Sp. 3. Galiata. Alis albidis, strigis basi, Jascidque medio lobulatd cinereo-fascid, 



margine postico fusco nubilato. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 

 Ge. Galiata. Wien. Verz. — Ha. Galiata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 132. JVo. 6554. 



Whitish : anterior wings with a broad pale fuscescent striga at the base, slightly 

 crenated without j a dolabriform ashy-brown fascia in the middle, slightly 

 dentate within and lobate without, with darker undulated Hues and a black 

 spot ; on the costa beyond is a subquadrate fuscous spot, the hinder margin 

 is clouded with fuscous, and an undulated whitish strrga runs nearly parallel 

 thereto, anterior to which is an obsolete dusky striga ; between the basal striga 

 and the fascia are some more or less distinct cinereous strigse : posterior Avings 

 darker, with pale-ashy waved strigae : cilia of all clouded with fuscous. 



Slightly variable ; in some examples, exclusively of the small difference in the 

 width of the medial fascia, the wings are spotless, while in others they are 

 very much clouded. 



I'he caterpillar is said to feed on the Galium Mollugo : the imago appears in the 

 beginning of June, and a second time about the-middle of August. 



This insect appears to be confined to the coasts of Great Britain 

 and Ireland : previously to August, 1818, four examples only were 



