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the brown colour of tlie base and central bar of the fore wings, which is much attenuated behind, and with the 

 outer margin lobed in the middle ; near the apex are two dark dots immediately behind a pale space, which 

 extends to the tip, and the pale parts of the wings are traversed by several slender undulating waves, and with a 

 pale subapical waved striga. The liind wings paler and more uniformly coloured, but traversed by numerous 

 slender waved stritrse. The abdomen with two rows of dark dots down the back. The caterpillar is obscure 

 greenish, with a dark and light longitudinal stripe down the side, and the hind segments spotted with darker 

 colour. Tliis is also a very common species, which appears in June and again in August. 



" Synonymes. — Cirfaria anWen^oria, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 551 ; Albin, pi. 97, fig. e — b. 

 Geometra Quadrifusciaria, Hubner (ncc Linn.) 



Species 5. — Cidaria qfadkifasciaria^ — (Plate LXIII., Figs. 5 & 6.) — Measures about li inch in 

 expanse, with the fore wings brownish, with a fulvous reddish tinge, a smail basal fascia, and another nearly 

 solid oblique central one of dark colour, slightly incurved near the costa, and the middle of the outer margin 

 deeplv but obtusely lobed ; the centre, towards the costa, with a black spot ; beyond the fascia is a slight 

 whitish striga, on whicli is placed a small dark, but often almost obsolete, duplicated spot toward the apex ; and 

 near this is a square darker spot upon the apical margin, which distinguishes this from the two preceding species. 

 The caterpillar is light brown, with faint streaks and some black spots : it feeds on dandelion and other low 

 plants ; and the moth appears at the end of -June and July, and is frequent in various parts of the country. 



*■ Synonymes. — Phaltsnia Geometra guadrifasciaria, Linnscus ; 

 Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 552. 



Geometra badiata, Boikhausen. 



Geometra ligustrata, Hubner (variety). 

 Geometra uiidutataria, Villers (variety). 



Species 6. — Cidaria latentaria". — (Plate LXIII., Fig. 7-) — Varies from 12 to 15 lines in the expanse 

 of the fore wings, which are ashy, varied with an ochreous tinge, and having seven or eight irregular waved 

 strigae, darkest at the costa, the space between two forming a broad, more or less decided, central fascia, with 

 the outer margin crenated and edged with a whitish line, and with a central black dot ; the apical margin with 

 black dots, arranged in pairs ; hind wings with irregular and rather indistinct waved strigse, and a central dot. 

 Taken abundantly on walls and rocks near Ambleside, at the beginning of June, by Messrs. Dale, Curtis, and 



others. 



" Synonvme.— Zfry;/Mi'a lalentaria, Curtis, Biit. Ent., pi. 296 ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., fig. 554. 



Species 7- — Cidaria Salicaria*^. — (Plate LXIII., Fig. 8.) — Measures rather more than 1 inch in expanse, 

 and has the wings ashy brown, with numerous undulated strigee, alternate!)' dusky and paler-coloured, with a 

 double or bilobed brown spot, and two squarish ones on the costa, close together, of a dirty red colour near the 

 tip of the wings ; hind wings pale ashy, scarcely freckled, with paler waved striga. Also found in the north 

 of England and Scotland, but rare, in June. 



^Synonyms. — Geome<ra so/icaria, Hubner ; Haworth; Stephens; Curtis; Wood, fig. 555. 



Species 8. — Cidaria miaria-^'. — (Plate LXIII., Fig. 9.) — This elegant species measures rather more than 

 1 inch in expanse of the fore wings, which are of a delicate green, with three patches of black on the costa, from 

 whence originate the same number of slender white waved streaks, the space between the second and third of 

 which is darker green, and terminates behind in a dark patch ; there is also a black lunate spot near the apex, and 

 an irregular interrupted whitish submarginal striga ; the extreme margin pale, with black dots, arranged in 

 pairs ; hind wings pale gray, with two or three paler strigae across them beyond the middle ; the margin 

 dotted. Common in woods and lanes in June. 



' Synony-mes. — Geometra miaria, Wien. Verz. ; Treitschkc; Hiib- Phalcena lectangulatu, Hufnagle. 



ner; Esper ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 556. Geometra pectinaria, Fuessly ; Donovan, Vol. l-l. pi. 479, fig 1. 



PhaliEua viridata, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Tillers. 

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