2T8 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Sp. 5. viretata. Alis anticis virescentibus nigro nebulosis, fasciis ex punctis 



nebulisque nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 lin.) 

 Ge. viretata. Hilbner.—Lo. viretata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 143. No. 6639. 



— Ph. trinotata. Don.xiv.pi. 499. /. 1. 



Anterior vsrings greenish, flavescent in old specimens, varied with somewhat 

 equidistant black and greenish strigse, composed, as it were, of black dots and 

 clouds, with a slight admixture of whitish 5 on the hinder margin is a row of 

 geminated black dots; cilia greenish-ash, clouded with fuscous: posterior 

 wings immaculate cinereous. 



Caterpillar greenish-yellow, with reddish-brown dorsal spots : it feeds on the 

 privet (Ligustrum vulgare) : — the imago appears in June. 



Not common : I have taken three or four examples at Birch- 

 wood ; it has also been found in Norfolk. " Epping, rare." — Mr. 

 Doubleday. 



B. Posterior tibise with two pair of spurs : {males with a large lobe at inner base 

 of posterior wings.) 



Sp. 6. hexapterata. Alis anticis fusco cinereoque variis, fasciis confertis satura- 



tioribus interruptis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1 — 3 lin.) 

 Ph. hexapterata. Fabricius. — Don. yi.pl, 192. — Lo. hexapterata. Steph. Catal. 



part ii.p. 143. No. 6640. 



Extremely variable: anterior wings varied with fuscous and cinereous, and 

 more or less thickly fasciated with interrupted darker strigte and bands, 

 especially towards the base, in some instances nearly black 5 in others the 

 central portion of the wing is entirely without strigse, and is of a pale hue ; 

 on the hinder margin is a delicate black line : posterior wings white, with the 

 hinder margin more or less obscurely strigated with fuscous : the base in the 

 males with a large ciliated lobe or appendage resembling a wing ; but wanting 

 in the female. 



In fine specimens there is frequently a rich flavescent tinge on the wings. 



Caterpillar found on the beech in the autumn : — the imago appears in June. 



At times abundant in certain places ; about twelve or fourteen 

 years since, it was in the utmost profusion at Birch-wood. " Epping." 

 Mr. DouUeday. " Strand-on-the-green." — Rev. A. H. Matthews. 

 ' Dalmeny, near Edinburgh." — Rev. W. Little. 



Sp. 7. sexalisata. Alis anticis griseo-cinereis fasciis duabus strigftque posticd 



alhidis, posticis fuscescente-albidis. (Exp. alar. 9—1 1 lin.) 

 Ge. sexalisata. Hilbner. — Lo. sexalisata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 143. No. 6641« 



Anterior wings with the base fuscescent, edged with a fuscous line, then a 

 narrow, indistinct, waved, whitish fascia, followed by a broad fuscescent one, 

 in the middle of which, towards the costa, is a black dot, and behind this a 



