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Wings of a yellowish- white, the anterior with numerous fuscous strigae, and two 

 transverse fasciae of a similar hue, with a black dot towards the middle near 

 the costa : posterior wings lineated with fuscous. 



I believe this insect has been taken in Norfolk. 



Sp. i. lignata. AUs pallide griseis, strigis saturatioribus, anticis fasciis duabus 

 obliquis fuscis , anticd costam versus pallidiore puncto atro. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 

 — 1 unc. 1 lin.) 

 Ge. lignata. Hiibner.— Ph. lignata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 138. JVo. 6603. — 



Ph. hneataria. Bon. xiv. pi. 485./. 1. 2. 

 Wings pale griseous, with darker strigse ; the anterior with an oblique fuscous 

 fascia in the middle, somewhat angulated posteriorly near the costa, and 

 attenuated and darker towards the inner margin, with a black dot towards 

 the costa; behind this is a very oblique and less perfectly defined fascia, 

 extending from the inner margin to the apex of the wing, and composed as it 

 were of three or four strigae, divaricating towards the apex ; posterior wings 

 paler, with a central dot and some shghtly waved hues; the margin of all 

 with a row of geminated black dots. 

 Slightly variable, and the female of a paler hue than the male, which has the 



antennae strongly ciliated. 

 The strongly ciHated antennte of the males and the shght dissimilarity of the 

 sexes seem to point out the impropriety of retaining this species in the same 

 genus with Ph. tersata and Ph. Vitalbata : Ph. lineolata also differs from its 

 congeners. 



Not common : I have taken it in Battersea-fields, and it has 

 occurred in the neighbourhood of Cambridge, and in the New 

 Forest. 



Sp. 5. hneolata. AUs cinerascentibus, fasciis duabus oblicjuis fuscis lineolisque 

 albidis. (Exp. alar. 9—11 lin.) 



Ge. lineolata. Wien. Verz.—Vh. lineolata. Steph. Catal. part in. p. 138. No. 

 6605. 



Wino-s ashy, somewhat plumbescent in the males, the anterior with several 

 oblique straight darker strigae, and two somewhat griscescent fasciolae in the 

 middle edged with white, between which is a blackish spot ; at the apex is a 

 very oblique fuscous streak, and on the hinder margin a slightly interrupted 

 fuscous line ; posterior wings paler, with several slightly waved darker strigae, 

 and an interrupted fuscous Une on the hinder margin ; ciha of all fuscous at 

 the base, pale at the apex, with dusky shades. Female smaller, sometimes 

 whitish-ash, with the central fasciolae united into an insoHd fascia. 

 Slightly variable : some specimens being less thickly strigulated than others, 

 and the ground colour being slightly dissimilar. 



