288 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTEKA. 



Anterior wings fulvous or tawny, with the costa broadly fuscous, with obscure 

 darker lines; the hinder margin the same, with an indistinct pale waved 

 striga, sometimes dentate externally, the extreme edge with a fine black in- 

 terrupted line : on the disc towards the costa is a very conspicuous black dot : 

 posterior wings fuscous, with some indistinct abbreviated strigse towards the 

 inner edge. 



Rather scarce ; found occasionally in Darenth and BIrcli Woods, 

 and in other places near London, in the beginning of August. 

 " Meldon-park." — G. Walks, Esq. 



Sp. 28. cognata. Alis anticis cinereis, rufo alboque viarnioratis, strigis quatuor 

 geminatis valde undulatis paUidis, lineolis punctoque medio atris. (Exp. alar. 

 1 1 lin.) 



Eu. cognata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 146. iVb. 6671.— Lar.sobrinata. Treitschke, 

 V. vi. b. p. llS.r' 



Anterior wings cinereous, marbled with rufous and white, with four geminated 

 and very much waved pale strigse ; one towards the base, a second in the 

 middle, the third behind the middle, and the fourth towards the posterior 

 margin : several of the nervures are longitudinally streaked with black, and 

 on the inner edge of the second striga is a conspicuous rounded black dot : 

 posterior wings paler, with indistinct darker strigae. 



All the examples I have hitherto seen of this beautiful species 

 were captured in Scotland ; three near Edinburgh. " Flisk, N. B." 

 — Rev. J. Fleming. 



Sp. 29. succenturiata. Alis omnibus cinerascenti-albis suhnebulosis, costd anti- 

 cariLtn Jimbridque communi fuscis. (Exp. alar. 11 — 12^ lin.) 



Ph. Ge. succenturiata. Linne. — Eu. succenturiata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 146. 

 No. 6672. 



Wings ashy- white, slightly clouded, the anterior with the costa, posterior margin, 

 and a portion of the inner one fuscous ; on the disc are some indistinct strigse, 

 composed of fuscescent or blackish dots, and a conspicuous black spot, and on 

 the hinder margin an obsolete waved white striga; cilia fuscous : posterior 

 wings whitish, with the margin and several strigse fuscous; cilia fuscous : 

 head, thorax, and base of abdomen whitish ; the rest of the abdomen dull 

 ferruginous. 



Caterpillar chocolate-brown, with white lateral stripes : it feeds on the worm- 

 Avood (Artemisia vulgaris) : — the imago appears in July. 



Not very common ; found in Coombe and Darenth Woods. 



Sp. 30. piperata. Alis albidis cinereo pulverulentis, costa aiiticarum limboque 



communi fuscescente-cinereis. (Exp. alar. 9 — 10 lin.) 

 Eu. piperata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 146. No. 6674. 



