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Anterior wings fuscous at the base, with a darker incurved fascia at the base 

 composed of two strigae ; then a broad clear flarae-red space, beyond which is 

 a very broad dusky fascia, composed of a fuscous fasciola at the base ; then a 

 wide pale space, and ending in a second fuscous fasciola, slightly waved and 

 terminating in a deUcate black striga composed of five arcs on the inner margin 

 of the wings : the hinder margin is flame-red, with a pale waved striga, and 

 its extreme edge has a slender interrupted black line; cilia fuscous, with 

 darker clouds : posterior wings ashy-brown, with obscure darker waves, the 

 margin tinted with red. 



Rather variable; the central fascia being sometimes very dark, at others nearly 

 white, especially towards the inner edge of the wings, and with a very con- 

 spicuous black dot towards the costa. 



Caterpillar grass-green, with a dark line on the anterior and posterior segments ; 

 it feeds on the Gahum montanum and G. sylvaticum : — the imago appears 

 the middle of July. 



Not common ; found at Darentli and Birch Woods. " Epping." — 

 Mr. Douhleday , 



Sp. 3. sinuata. Alls alhidis aid niveis, anticis fascift basi alterdque posticfi ab- , 

 breviatd costalifuscis, inargine griseo-ferru^ineo. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 

 2 lin.) 



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Anterior wings white or niveous, the base fuscous, with a brighter reddish 

 striga, giving the appearance of two incurved brown fasciae ; and behind the 

 middle an abbreviated fascia on the costa, terminating internally, on the inner 

 margin of the wing, in two faint slightly waved strigae, and externally in a 

 very faint series of dark arcs : behind this fascia on the costa is a reddish 

 elongate patch, edged on both sides with white, the outer edge having an un- 

 dulated striga, which extends to the opposite margin of the wing; the hinder 

 margins and the cilia are fuscescent, with a darker subquadrate spot on the 

 middle of the fascia : posterior wings white, with the margin and some trans- 

 verse strigae brownish. 



Caterpillar green, with a broad yellow lateral stripe and a greenish-yellow line, 

 the latter edged with brown ; it feeds on the bedstraw (galium verum) : — the 

 imago appears towards the end of June. 



Very rare ; the only locality I know is a lane between Darenth 

 and Birch Woods : the insect has, however, been taken in Devon- 

 shire and in Berkshire. 



Sp. 4. derivata. Alis anticis albido-violaceis, fascioUs tribus angnlatis saturate 

 ■ fiiscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 2 lin.) 



