256 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPlDOPTEllA. 



present I Lave not thought proper to detach the discrepant ones, 

 not having an opportunity of properly investigating all the species : 

 they may be known from the foregoing genera by the anterior 

 wings being generally elongate, obliquely strigated with fuscous or 

 dark lines, on a paler fuscous or cinereous ground, and rarely dis- 

 posed in a central fascia as in most of the preceding insects. 



Sp. 1. tersata. Alis fusco-griseis, strigis punctisque obsoletis nigrescentibus, 

 lined dentatd albidfi ad marginem posticum. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 lin.) 



Ge. tersata, Wien. Ferz.—Rh. tersata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 138. No. 6601. 



Griseous-brov/n ; all the wings somewhat clouded, with numerous obsolete dusky 

 strigse, forming a very obscure oblique broad central fascia, in which is a con- 

 spicuous black dot towards the costa ; towards the hinder margin is an obsolete 

 whitish dentate line, and on the margin itself is an interrupted black line ; 

 the posterior wings are somewhat paler, and the strigae more evident, espe- 

 cially on the nervures. 



Caterpillar brown, with a paler dorsal line varied with white, and a grey lateral 

 one : the sides somewhat spotted with brown and black : it feeds on the Tra- 

 veller's joy (Clematis Vitalba) : — the imago appears in June. 



Local, but not common in the vicinity of Darenth and Birch 

 Woods ; also at Hertford and Ripley. 



Sp. 2. vitalbata. Alis anticis albido-griaeis, costd fascidque laid obligud per- 

 fuscis, posticis albidioribus lineis undatis fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 4 lin.) 



Ge. vitalbata. Wien. Ver%. — Ph. vitalbata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 138. No. 

 6602. 



Anterior wings griseous-white, with the costa and a broad, very oblique, fascia, 

 arising at the apex and terminating near to the base of the inner margin, and 

 sometimes slightly interrupted in the middle; between this and the anal 

 angle are some irregular fuscous streaks, and a whitish, or pale, waved line, 

 and towards the costa a black dot; the posterior wings are whitish, with 

 numerous fuscescent strigse condensed into an open fascia towards the middle, 

 and darkest on the inner margin ; on the hinder margin of all the Avings is an 

 interrupted black line ; and a black dot in the middle of the posterior. 



Slightly variable : some examples being of a lighter hue than others, and some 

 more varied. 



Found in the same localities with the preceding insect. 



t Sp. 3. polygrammata. Alis ex Jlavo-albidis, anticis strigis numerosis fasciisque 

 duabus fuscis ; posticis fusco-lineatis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 lin.?) 



Ge. polygrammata. Hilbner.—V\\. polygrammata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 139. 

 No. 6606. 



