GEOMETRID.^. — EUPITHECIA. 



281 



Anterior wings green, with an indistinct angukted black striga near the base, 

 a bent one towards the middle, and a distinctly biangulated one, sinuated 

 and obscure towards the inner margin, behind the middle ; the posterior 

 margin is slightly fuscous, and has a very obscure pale waved striga, with a 

 few indistinct fuscous clouds towards the apex ; the margin itself has a con- 

 tinuous black line, and the cilia are spotted with fuscous : posterior wings 

 green, with a strongly angulated dark striga placed rather behind the middle. 



Very diflPerent in form to the foregoing, and the markings dissimilarly placed. 



The only examples I have seen of tliis very distinct species were 

 captured in Devonshire, mostly by Messrs. Chant and Bentley, in 

 June. 



Sp. 5. nigrosericeata. AHs sublatis sericeo-nigris nitidis, strigi2 anticar-um 

 undulata albdjuxia marginem posticuvi. (Exp. alar. 9 — 10 lin.) 



Ph. nigrosericeata. Haworth. — Eu. nigrosericeata. Steph. Catal. part i\. p. 144. 

 No. 6646. 



Anterior wings rather broad, of a rich shining silken black, with obsolete darker 

 strigEe, and a distinct whitish one towards the hinder margin ; posterior wmgs 

 somewhat paler, also with a faint whitish striga : ciha of all fuscous. 



This is said to be the Ge. inturbata of Hiibner, but I have not the means at 

 present of ascertaining the fact : that insect is, however, given as a native of 

 Austria. 



Rare ; found near London, I believe in June. 



t Sp. 6. sericeata. Alis omnibus pallide fuscescentihus sericeis, strigd communi 



undxilatd juxta marginem posticum, ciliisque albicantihus. 

 Ph. sericeata. Zfaworif/i.—Eu. sericeata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 144. TVo. 6647. 

 All the wings pale silken brown, with a common waved striga near the hmder 



margin, and the cilia whitish. 



Of this insect I have never seen a specimen : the above concise 

 definition (as also that of other species of this difficult genus,) is 

 from Lepidoptera Britannica, but no locality is there given. 



Sp. 7. V ata. Aiis viridibus, anticis V nigro prostrato notatis pone medium. 

 (Exp. alar. 8—10 Hn.) 



Ph. V ata. Haworth.-^xi. V ata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 144. No. 664S. 



Wings green; anterior with indistinct transverse pale strigs, and three more 

 evi^dent black ones, the first near the base, the second before, and the third 

 behind, the middle ; the latter one strongly angled near the costa, and forming 

 a distinct V, the striga being nearly obliterated towards the inner margin of 

 the wing; on the hinder margin is an interrupted black line; ciha green, 

 Haustellata. Vol. III. 1st July, 1831. u 



