GEOMETRIDiE. — LOBOPHORA. 27T 



Sp. 2. dentistrigata. AlisaJhidis aut cinereis strigis ohsoletissimis fuscescentibus, 



exteriore intus dentata. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3—4 lin.) 

 Ph. dentistrigata. Haworth.—Lo. dentistrigata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 143. 



No. 6638. 



Anterior wings whitish or cinereous ; in fine examples witli a very faint greenish 

 tinge, and about five obsolete waved brownish strigse placed in pairs and most 

 distinct towards the costa, the outer one dentate ; on the hinder margin is a 

 row of minute geminated fuscous or black dots; cilia whitish with ashy 

 clouds: posterior wings paler, with a pale-fuscous dot in the middle, and two 

 or three faint undulated fuscous strigae towards the hinder margin, on which 

 last is an interrupted fuscous streak ; cilia white. 

 Variable in colour, and in the strength and intensity of the transverse strigae. 

 Caterpillar brown, with the back dull-green, and a yellowish lateral line; it 

 feeds on the honeysuckle (Lonicera Xylosteum) :— the imago appears in June. 



Not common : I have taken a few examples at Birch-wood, and 

 others have been found at Darenth. " Corby-woods, Allesley." — 

 Rev. W. T. Bree. 



Sp. 3. costaestrigata. Alis cinerascentibus, strigis subquinque geminatis cosfa- 



libus fuscis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Ph. costaestrigata. Haworth. — Lo. costaestrigata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 143. 



No. 6637. 



Wings whitish-ash, the anterior with about five abbreviated geminated aequi- 

 distant costal strigae, from which arise a similar number of very obscure scarcely 

 visible strigse, which terminate on the inner margin : posterior wings whitish, 

 with an obsolete marginal striga. 



This may be only the female of the preceding species. 



Taken near London in July. 



Sp. 4. rupestrata. Alis aJbis, anticis strigis quinque undatis fuscis. (Exp. alar. 



1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Ge. rupestrata. TFien. Verz. — Hilbner, pi. 37. /. 192. 



Wings white ; the anterior with five waved fuscous strigae, the first at the base 

 angulated, and attenuated towards the inner margin ; the second and third 

 straight, placed before the middle ; the fourth irregularly lobate behind the 

 middle ; the fifth towards the hinder margin and sinuated within : the hinder 

 raaro-in is slightly clouded with cinereous, and has a row of geminated black 

 dots: posterior wings with two deep-fuscous waved lines near the hinder 

 margin, and a streak of the same on the extreme edge : cilia white, on the 

 anterior wings with brown spots. 



The only example I have seen of this insect I possess ; it was 

 taken in Devonshire in June. 



