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Above fuscous, beneath ochreous : abdomen with a broad fuscous streak ; 

 anterior wings pale whitish-brown, darkest towards the apex, thickly 

 freckled with whitish, except on the costa, and a lunate spot on the disc, 

 another behind the transverse nervures resembling a reversed S, and nearly- 

 united to a small one on the hinder margin ; these spots are very frequently 

 broadly edged with deep fuscous-brown ; the longitudinal nervures on the 

 inner margin are generally pitchy, dotted irregularly with white ; stigma 

 also pitchy, with a few pale dots ; posterior wings very transparent, 

 iridescent and immaculate ; legs tawny, spines and tips of tarsal joints 

 black. 



Not uncommon, within the metropolitan district, in June and 

 July ; also found in the New Forest, near Cambridge, in Scotland, 

 Devonshire, &c. 



Sp. 19. signatus. Ochraceus, supra fuscus, alls anticis ochraceo-albidis, macula 

 media utrinque fusco m,arginata alba, stigmate pallide brunneo. ( Long, corp. 

 6 lin.; Exp. Alar. 12lin.) 



Lim. signatus. Stejjh. Catal. 322. No. 3696. 



Ochreous : head, thorax, and abdomen above fuscous, the sides of the latter 

 with a fuscous streak ; antennae pale reddish-brown, with darker rings ; 

 anterior wings very pale ochreous-white, minutely, but very sparingly, 

 freckled with brown towards the apex, especially on the anal angle ; on the 

 disc is a small white oblique spot, edged anteriorly and posteriorly with 

 deep fuscous; the stigma is pale brown; posterior wings ample, hyaline, 

 pale and immaculate ; legs tawny, anterior tibise faintly aiinulated with 

 fuscous, the others armed with black spines. 



Taken, in the vicinity of London, in August. 



Sp. 20. obliquus. Fuscus, infra ochraceus, alis anticis Jlavescente-ochraceis, 

 macula prwobliqua pallida, stigmate piceo. (Long. corp. 5 lin.; Exp. Alar. 

 10 lin.) 



Lim. obliquus. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3697. 



Above fuscous, beneath ochreous: palpi pale; antennae fuscous, with faint 

 pale rings ; anterior wings pale yellowish-ochre, obscurely freckled with a 

 paler hue, with a narrow larger and paler spot, placed very obliquely, about 

 the middle of the disc ; transverse nervures and stigma pitchy ; posterior 

 wings pale and hyaline ; legs pale tawny, with black spines. 



Found, but rarely, near London, in July. 



Sp. 21. luniger. Ochraceo-fuscus, alis anticis fuscescentibus, lunuli media 

 maculuque postice subhyalinis, stigmate brunneo. (Long. corp. 6h lin. ; Exp. 

 Alar. 11 lin.) 



Lim. lunatus. Steph. Catal. 322. No. 3702. 



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