270 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sp. 1. Spartiata. Alts anticis griseo-cinereis fusco variegatis et nehulosis, strid 

 pallida subtus costam, a hasi usque 'per apicem. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 6 lin.) 



Ph. Spartiata. Fahricius. — Don. x. pi. 342./. 2. — Ch. Spartiata. Steph. Catal. 

 part u. p. 141. No. 6627. 



Anterior wings griseous-ash, variegated and clouded with fuscous^ three conspi- 

 cuous oval blotches of the latter colour being placed transversely across the 

 wings— the first, which is largest, in the middle of the costa, the second in the 

 middle of the disc, and the third somewhat towards the base of the inner margin ; 

 these spots are more or less marked with whitish or deeper clouds; nearly 

 parallel with the costa is a conspicuous longitudinal pale streak, which reaches 

 to the apex of the wing ; and towards the hinder margin is a pale ashy-white 

 streak, the space between which and the margin itself is dark fuscous, some- 

 times bordered with ashy on the hinder margin, which always has a slightly 

 interrupted black streak : posterior wings fuscous, immaculate, with a darker 

 marginal line; cilia of all fuscous at the base, pale at the apex. 



Caterpillar green or yellow with a pale or white lateral line : it feeds on the 

 broom (Spartium scoparium) : — the imago appears towards the end of Sep- 

 tember, or in October. 



Local : not uncommon in the larva state amongst the high broom 

 which abounds so in the waste near Coombe-wood. — " Allesley." — 

 Rev. W. T. Bree. " Little Orton."— T. C. Hey sham, Esq. 



Sp. 2. obliquaria. Alis cinereis, anticis postice rufescentibus strigd flexd fascias- 

 formi pone medium brunneo-fuscd, alterdque postice albd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 



2—3 lin.) 

 Ge. obliquaria. Wien. Verz. — Ch. obliquaria. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 141. No. 



6628. — Ph. Bombycata. Bon. xi. pi. 3S6.f. 4. 



Griseous ; anterior wings rufescent, especially behind the middle, with a faint 

 rectangular fuscescent striga near the base, and a very indistinct one towards 

 the middle, behind which is a conspicuous fuscous-brown somewhat flexuous 

 one : towards the hinder margin is a whitish striga, sometimes crenate, which 

 terminates in an oblique line at the apex, and on the margin itself is a faintly 

 interrupted black line, occasionally bordered within with whitish ; ciha cine- 

 reous, with a darker central line : posterior wings pale fuscous, immaculate. 



Less frequent than the last, but nevertheless far from abundant 



in the south : I have occasionally taken specimens on the palings 



surrounding the premises of Coombe-wood House. " Epping." — 

 Mr. Douhleday. " Gibside." — G. Wailes, Esq, 



