310 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Ph. osseata. Wien. Ver% — Pt, osseata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 150. No. 6707. 



Wings lutescent- white, glossy 5 all with a minute central black dot, and with 

 several obscure pale-fuscous waved strigae, two of which are placed anteriorly, 

 and three towards the hinder margin, the second and third being the most 

 distinct, and the fifth edged with a pale line; on the hinder margin is a row 

 of minute elongate black dots ; the anterior wings have the costa pale ferru- 

 ginous. 



It varies in being nearly destitute of the strigse, and of the marginal row of 

 black streaks :— this variety is the Ph. subochreata. Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. ISO. No. 6708. 



Not uncommon in June at Coombe, Darentli, and other woods 

 within the metropolitan district. 



Sp. 2. marginepunctata. Alis albido-lutescentihus strigis undatis obscuriorihus, 



puncto medio fusco, margineque postico nigro punctata. (Exp. alar. 10 Un.) 

 Pt. marginepunctata. Steph. Catal. part \i. p. 150. No. 6709. 



Wings ochreous, with five very obsolete fuscescent waved strigse more or less 



approximating, and all with a fuscous central dot, and a row of minute round 



black dots on the hinder margin. 

 Rather larger than the last, without the ferruginous tinge on the costa of the 



anterior wings, and with a distinct row of rounded black dots on the hinder 



margins of all the wings. 



Taken near Brockenhurst in the New Forest : it may be only a 

 variety of the foregoing; but as it does not occur near London, it 

 would appear to be distinct. 



Sp. 3. virgularia. Alis pulverulentim cinereis, strigis duabus obliquis fimhridque 

 subnebidd communi, saturatioribus. (Exp. alar. 6—10 lin.) 



Ge. virgularia. H'dbner? — Pt. virgularia. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 151. No. 

 6715. 



Wings, at least the anterior, elongate, cinereous, very thickly pulverulent, the 

 anterior with a slightly angulated indistinct darker striga before the middle, 

 and a second more evident and common in the middle ; the hinder margin 

 fuscescent, with small whitish clouds and very minute black dots ; and on the 

 extreme edge is an interrupted fine black line, and some rounded black dots 

 at the base of the cilia. 



Variable in size and in the intensity of its markings. 



Common in hedges, gardens, woods, &c. near London ; also at 

 Dover, in Devonshire, &c. " Newcastle." — G. Wailes, Esq. 



Sp. 4. subsericeata. Alis subsericeo-albidis tincturd virescente, strigis quinque 

 saturatioribus undulatis wquidistantibus fp?'ima excepta) communibus. (Exp. 

 alar. 11 lin.) 



