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angle near the costa of the wing, and is somewhat waved towards the inner 

 margin ; near the hinder margin is an undulated whitish striga, and on the 

 margin itself is a black line: posterior wings pale griseous, with various darker 

 and paler obscure waved lines : cilia purplish. 



Variable in tint, and in the strength and boldness of the transverse fascia. 



Caterpillar green, somewhat lineated with fuscous and pale streaks, and with a 

 yellow lateral line; it feeds on the Buckthorn (Rhamnus catharticus) :— the 

 imago appears about the middle of July, and towards the middle of May. 



Common in some places, especially in the vicinity of Ripley; 

 also at Darenth and Birch Woods. " Epping."— i/r. Doubleday. 

 " Cramond, near Edinburgh."— i?gt,'. W. Little. " Strand-on-the- 

 green." — Rev. A. H. Matthetos. " Bottisham, not uncommon." — 

 Rev. L. Jenyns. " Allesley and Coleshill."— i?et>. W. T. Bree. 

 " Durdar."— r. C. Hey sham, Esq. « Newcastle."— G. Wailes, 

 Esq. 



Sp. 3. cinereata. Alls chiereis, anticis fascia basi altermjue insolidd medio fuscis; 



strigdcjue posticd interruptd alba, posticis palUdis immaculati.i. (Exp. alar. 



1 unc. 4 — 6 lin.) 

 Tr. cinereata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 139. No. 6613. 



Wings plain pale cinereous ; anterior with a narrow fuscous fascia at the base, 

 and a broad one composed of two slender fasciolae in the middle, on the an- 

 terior margin of which is a black line ; towards the posterior margin is an 

 obscure interrupted whitish or white striga, and on the margin itself a fine 

 dusky line ; posterior wings immaculate pale cinereous. 



Much less than the last, totally destitute of the purple tinge, and of a far paler 

 colour, the posterior wings being whitish ash and immaculate, and the few 

 markings on the anterior being of a very dissimilar form. 



My specimens were captured near Ripley, in July, 1827: — they 

 differ slightly from each other, but their characters are similar. 



Genus CCXVII. — Camptogramma* miM. 



Palpi rather long, porrected obliquely upwards in the form of a beak, conic, 

 acute, densely clothed with scales; triarticulate, the basal joint curved; the 

 second longer, compressed, equally robust, shghtly attenuated, terminal ovate- 

 lanceolate, obtuse: maxillos rather long. Antennce slender, simple in both 



Ka^Kwrai, flecto ; T^ixfi/it,K, litera. 



