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less distinctly and thickly fasciated, the fascia composed of numerous 

 waved strigse. 



The name Ypsipetes— properly Hypsipetes — having been re- 

 cently employed to designate a genus of birds, necessarily falls ; I 

 have therefore substituted the above for the present insects. 



Sp. 1. miata. Alts anticis aJbido-viridibus, fascia hasi, altcraque medio satur- 

 atioribus, posticis viridi-albicantihus , puncto centraliin omnibus nigi'o. (Exp. 

 alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. miata. Linne.—Don. xiv. pi. 479./ 3.— Harpalyce miata. Steph. 

 Catal. part ii. p. 131. No. 6368. 



Anterior wings green^ with a fascia at the base and another in the middle of a 

 deeper hue ; the hinder margin is also dark, and has an obscure undulated 

 whitish striga^ and on the margin itself is a line of geminated black dots : 

 posterior wings greenish-white, with some darker imdulated strigse towards 

 the margin, and on the latter a row of geminated black dots : all the wings 

 with a central black dot. 



Rather variable in colour, being sometimes slightly tinted with flavescent; and 

 in some rare cases the pale strigae on the anterior wings are slightly tinted with 

 red : — the fasciae as usual vary in width. 



Caterpillar pale-green dotted with red ; it feeds on the bramble : — the imago 

 appears in the autumn. 



Not uncommon in several places within the metropolitan district. 

 " Bottisham, not unfrequent in the autumn." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 

 " Meldon-park, Newcastle, Stc." — G. Wailes, Esq. " Newby-cross 

 Orton, &c."— r. C. Heysham, Esq. " Epping."— ilfr. Double- 

 day. 



Sp. 2. Psittacata. Alls anticis rufo-viridibus nigro undatis, fascia basi alterdque 

 medio saturatioribus rufo-viridibus ; posticis fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 2| 

 lin.) 



Ph. Psittacata, Fabricius, — Ha. Psittacata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 134. No. 

 6569. Ph. rubroviridata.— Dora. xiv. pi. 4,85. f 3. 



Anterior wings pale red-green, undulated with blacky with a darker fascia at the 

 base, and a second broad one in the middle, also tinted with red-green: 

 towards the apex of the costa are some whitish abbreviated strigse, which are 

 continued as pale waved lines, which again become white on the inner margin 5 

 the central fascia has a transverse black streak uniting its two edges, as it were, 

 within ; and near the apex of the wing are some minute black dots ; and on 

 the hinder margin is a row of geminated black points : posterior wings fuscous, 

 with a central dot and some obscure marginal strigse. 



