306 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Anterior wings whitish, with a lutescent tinge, with a slender subfuscous slightly 

 repanded striga before the middle, and a second common one, also repanded, 

 behind the middle, a little beyond a conspicuous black dot ; the limb of all 

 the wings is cinerascent, being adorned with four or five alternate whitish or 

 fuscescent tinted strigse, and a row of black dots on the extreme edge : posterior 

 wings nearly similar to the anterior, also with a black central dot placed mid- 

 way between the first and second strigae. 



Common on the borders of woods at Coombe, Darenth, &c. 

 " Epping." — Mr. Doubleday. " Newcastle." — G. Wailes, Esq. 

 «' Flisk, N. B:'—Rev. J. Fleming. 



Sp. !2. fimbriolata. Alls albidis strigd centrali communi limhoque perfusco hoc 



striga undulatd albidd. (Exp. alar. 1 1 lin.) 

 Pt. fimbriolata mihi. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 151. No. 6714. 

 Wings whitish, all with a minute deep-fuscous central dot, a pale-fuscous nearly 



straight central striga, and the posterior margin broadly deep fuscous, with a 



waved white striga traversing it ; cilia fuscescent. 



Found in the neighbourhood of London in June. 



Sp. 3. cinereata. Alis cinereis, puncto centrali margineque postico undato fusco. 



(Exp. alar. 11 lin.) 

 Ph. cinereata. Fabricius? — Pt. decoraria? Steph. Catal. part ii. jo. 151. JVo. 



6712. 

 Wings cinereous, with a very obscure common central striga and ordinary dot 



fuscous ; the posterior margin also irregularly fuscous. 



Also taken in June within the metropolitan district. 



Sp. 4. lividata. Alis albido-cinerascentibus, strigis obsoletis fascidque marginali 



dimidiatdfuscis. (Exp. alar. 9—10 lin.) 

 Ph. Ge. lividata. Linne. — Pt. Uvidata. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 150. No. 6710. 

 Wings whitish-ash, sometimes flavescent or ochreous, remotely sprinkled with 

 minute fuscous atoms, with three small equidistant costal spots, from which 

 three more or less distinct strigse extend to the inner margin, the central one 

 being most obscure : on the hinder margin of the wings, at the anal angle, 

 behind the third striga, are three or four fuscous spots bordered with whitish, 

 from which a very obscure whitish waved striga extends to the costa, beyond 

 which the tint is more or less fuscescent; posterior wings nearly similar; all 

 with a central fuscous dot, and a row of clear black dots on the hinder margin ; 

 cilia whitish-ash. 



Not uncommon in June in woods and hedges near London. 

 " Tynemouth."— G. Wmles, Esq. " Flisk, N. B."—Rev. J. Fle- 

 ming. " Strand-on-the-green."— i^^jy. A. H. Matthews. 



