AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. J 



Geohetra carbonaria, Haworth, is possibly a small suflfused variety, measuring only 1 1 lines in expanse of 

 the fore wings, which are of a pitchy brown colour, slightly irrorated with pale atoms. 



'Synonvmes. — Fhal. Geom. AtomariOj Liunxus; Hubuer; Dono- [ Phaltena Isoscelata, Scopuli, (female). 



Tan, 7, pi. 248, fig, 1, 2 ; Wood, fig. 454. ! Geonutra glarcaria^ iiti\\oii\i \ llubncr? 

 Phaltena aceraria, Hufu-igle. Geomeira roseidaria, Uubner ; Haworth. 



Phaltena pennala, Scopoli. (Variety?) Geomeira carbonaria, Haworth, (but not of Fabricius). 



Species 2. — Fidonia fuliginaria'. — (Plate LVII., figs, 11, 12.) — This species measures 11 lines in the 

 expanse of the fore wings, which are of a blackish colour, with three undulated subinterrupted whitish strigse : 

 the first being towards the base of the wing ; the second beyond the middle, running also acro-ss the hind wing, 

 and very much arched on the outside ; the third is subniarginal and rather indistinct, and be3-ond this a rather 

 indistinct row of yellowish spots. Very rare ; a few specimens, only taken at wide intervals in the neighbour- 

 hood of London, being all which have hitherto been noticed. The caterpillar is obscure, with fulvous and black 

 dots, and a longitudinal streak on each side. 



t Sysonvmes. — Ph. Geom. fuliginaria, Linnxus ; Haworth ; Ste- Ph. carbonai ia, Fabricius ; Hubner, (but not of Haworth). 



phcns ; Wood, Iiid. Ent. pi. 18, fig. 456. | Ph. lunulata, Fabricius, (female). 



Species 3. — Fidonia ericetaria''. — (Plate LVII., Figs. 13, 14.) — Varies from IJ- to 1 j- inch in the expanse 

 of the fore wings, which are of an ashy colour, with a slight purplish tinge and much irrorated ; the costa with 

 three dusky dots, the central one produced within into a slender dusky striga, the third also extended into a 

 much less distinct undulated stricja, followed by a narrow pale streak : the apical marwin itself bein^ brown, ' / 



which is found also in the hind winss ; the female is smaller than the male and more irrorated — a rare species, .J. , , ,; 

 but found in fir plantations in Kent, Surrey, .and Hampshire, in August, and occasionally in considerable numbers. JfJi 

 Weybridge, June, 1842.— -J. F. Stephens, Esq. 



*> Synonvmf.s. — Phol. Geom. ericetaria, Villers; Haworth; | Geomeira plumistraria, Huhncr. 

 .Stephens ; Wood, fig. 457. I Geomeira subfimbriala, Haworth, in Ent. Trans., O. S. 1, 330. 



M.ESIA, STEPHE.N-S. BUPALUS, Curtis. 

 The palpi are not concealed in the hairs of the front of the head ; they are squamosa, with the terminal joint 

 small and globose ; the antennae are less strongly bipectinated in the males than in the preceding genus ; the 

 wings are deflexed during repose, the hind ones covered by the fore ones, and irrorated with a dark central dot 

 and strigae of dusky markings ; the female is smaller than the male. 



Species 1. — M^esia favillaceauia'. — (Plate LVII., Fig. 15.) — This variable species measures about H inch „ 

 in the expanse of the fore wings, which in the males are of a pale ashy white, the middle with a pale butF tinge, and ''' 



finely powdered with dusky atoms ; a dark spot at the extremity of the discoidal cell in all the wings, preceded ,^ 

 in the fore wings by a slender dark scalloped striga, and followed by a much curved row of dusky arches, 

 (extending also across the hind wings,) and which are more or less suflfused towards the apical and anal angles ; 

 the margins of the wings with small dusky dots. Tiie female is considerably smaller aud darker coloured, being 

 more thickly irrorated with dusky scales. Originally taken in Yorkshire, but more recently found in some 

 plenty settling in the heathy places where the turf has been pared off in the New Forest, from the middle of May 

 to the middle of July, and, unlike several of the preceding species, " nothing apparently will induce it to fly 

 during the day." — Curtis. 



' Sykonyhes. — Geomeira favillacearia, HUbner; Haworth ; Cur- i Geomeira mediopunclaria, Donovan, 13, pi. 461, Cg. 1. 

 ti>, Brit. Ent. pi. 33 ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 458; Harris, Aurclian, | Geomeira Belgiaria, Hubner. 

 pi. 33, fig. m. 



