320 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Wings whitish, more or less sprinkled with fuscous atoms ; all with three obscure 

 fuscescent strigse ; the anterior with three small and one large rufescent spots 

 on the costa, and towards the hinder margin a rounded spot, divided by the 

 pale nervures into four, one interior, elongate, and three exterior placed trans- 

 versely ; the notch of the hinder margin has a red-brown lunule : posterior 

 wings with a central fuscous dot, and the space between the two exterior 

 strigse somewhat rufescent ; hinder margin with a fine reddish striga. 



Caterpillar green, the sides yellowish or brown : it feeds on willow, oak, &c. : — 

 the imago is found in the beginning of June. 



Rather uncommon ; found at Darenth, Birch, and Coombe Woods; 

 also near Dover. " Kirk Andre ws-upon-Eden." — T. C. Heysham, 

 Esq. 



Sp. 2. alternata. Alls atomoso-cinereis, fusco strigatis, anticis maculis quatuor 

 costalibus lunuld apicis punctisque posticd atris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 1—2 lin.) 



Ge. alternata. Wien. Ferz.— Ma. alternata. Steph. Catat. part h. p. 154. No. 

 6741. 



Wings cinereous, thickly irrorated and marked especially towards the hinder 

 margin, with elongate ashy streaks, and indistinct fuscous strigae, the space 

 between rather paler ; on the costa of the anterior wings are four distinct 

 spots, the posterior one being elongate, and in a line with its apex is a patch 

 of minute fuscous spots: on the notch of the hinder margin is a fuscous 

 lunule : posterior wings, with the hinder margin, darker than the base, and 

 with the central dot rather conspicuous. 



Rare : taken at Darentli-wood in June ; also I believe at Coombe. 



f Sp. 3. subrufata. Alis rufescentibus, strigis gracilibus saturatioribus. (Exp. 



alar. 1 unc. 3 lin.) 

 Ph. subrufata. Haworth.— Ma.} subrufata. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 154. JVo. 



6742. 



Wings rufescent, with slender darker strigae. Mr. Haworth adds — " The edges 

 of the acute upper (anterior) wings seem to have been dentated or angled; 

 but the specimen from whence the above description was made is too much 

 injured to be certain of it." 



In Mr. Haworth's collection, from that of Mr. Francillon. 



Sp. 4. liturata. Alis cinerascentibus , strigis tribus communibus subfuscis, ante 

 fasciam communemfulvicardem. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 5 lin.) 



Ph. Ge. liturata. Linne. — Ma. liturata. Curtis, ui. pi. 132. — Steph. Catal. part ii. 

 p. 154. No. 6743. 



Wings cinereous, with minute fuscous irrorations ; the anterior with four spots 

 on the costa, the three basal of which are dusky, and give rise to a similar 

 number of rather faint strigte common to all the wings, behind the last of 



