250 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



their apex with a large somewhat trigonal-ovate brown-black spot on the 

 costa near the apex, whence arises a beautiful geminated striga, black, with 

 remote triangular clots within, and pale fuscous without, which terminates in 

 a small blackish spot on the inner margin ; the posterior margin beyond this 

 plumbeous, varied with whitish and cinereous, with an undulated whitish 

 line : posterior wings also milk-white, with a geminated striga, as before, 

 towards the margin, which latter is fuscous slightly interrupted with whitish ; 

 in the centre of all the wings is a black dot. 

 Caterpillar green, the anterior and posterior segments with a lateral brown line, 

 the intermediate with a dorsal lunule of the same : — it feeds on the raspberry 

 (Rubus Idseus): the imago appears towards the end of June. 



Rare in the immediate vicinity of London ; but more abundant 

 in tlie lower parts of Kent, and in Norfolk. " Baron-wood, Arma- 

 thwaite."— T. C. Heijsham, Esq. « Meldon-park, Gibside, &c."— 

 G. Wailes, Esq. " Tunbridge-wells."— /. G. Children, Esq. 



Sp. 2. procellata. Alis niveis, anticis basi fascii abbreviatd costali liynboque 



fuscis, ultimo macuM alba. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 — 6 lin.) 

 Ge. procellata. Wien. Ferz.—Xe. procellata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 137. No. 

 6594. — Ge. porcellata. Don. vi. pi. 502. f. 3. 



Head, thorax, and base of the anterior wings black, the rest of the wings snow- 

 white, with a rhomboid fuscous spot on the middle of the costa, from the 

 inner edge of which arise some faint undulated strigae, the outer ones being 

 most evident ; the posterior margin is also broadly fuscous, with an inter- 

 rupted white waved striga, and a quadrate spot of the same in the middle ; 

 towards the base of the inner margin is an acicular black mark : posterior 

 wings white, with faint undulated fuscous strigse, and a narrow darker mar- 

 ginal band, the latter sometimes with an undulated white striga within. 



Not uncommon in the neiarbbourhood of Darentb and Birch 

 Woods : I have also taken it at Hertford, and near Dover. 

 " Strand-on-the-green." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. " Epping." — 

 Mr. Douhleday. " Tunbridge." — J. G. Children, Esq. 



Sp. 3. adustata. Alis anticis albidis basifasciaque posticd sinuatd crenatd fulvo- 



nigris, adustatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 1 unc. 1 lin.) 

 Ge. adustata. fr/e?*. Ferx.—Xe. adustata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 6595. Harris 



Exp. pi. ^.J. I' 



Head and thorax fuscous : base of the anterior wings the same, of a fulvous-black; 

 wings whitish or cream-coloured, with a repanded or sinuated fascia towards 

 the hinder margin, crenate without, fulvous-black, or umbre-coloured, with 

 darker spots; behind this the wing is more or less clouded with fuscous or 



