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strigje, with a small central black dot ; the costa and posterior margin fuscous-ash, the latter with an obscure 

 whitish striga ; posterior wings whitish at the base ; the posterior margin brownish-ash, with irregular pale 

 strifae ; on the hinder margin of all an interrupted faint pale line ; cilia fuscous. Taken in the beginning of 

 July, on Kiddlesdown, near Croydon. Apparently scarce." Stephens, 1. c. 



" S\KOK\uF.. —Eupithecia piperata, Stephens, 111. Haust. 3, 288 ; Wood, fig. 678. 



Species 35. — Popithecia centaureata ° — (Plate LXX., Figs. 16, 17) — Measures from 8 to 10 lines in 

 expanse ; wings white, slightly clouded with black ; the fore ones with the costa subinterrupted, blackish, 

 having a dark nearly trigonate spot beyond the middle, in which is a black lunula, and with a white undulated 

 subapical line ; hinder margin clouded with brownish ; hind wings white, with the anal and apical margins, and 

 the small ordinary subcentral dark dot, more or less brown or brownish ; the former with indications of strigae. 

 Taken in gardens, in June. The caterpillar is pale yellowish-green, with black markings on the back and sides; 

 it feeds on Centaurea scabiosa, and other plants. 



° Synonvmes. — Geometra centaureata, Wieo. Verz. ; Hubner; 

 Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 679; Harris; Aurelian, pi. 19, 

 fig. a-f. 



Phalmna oblongata, Thunberg. 

 Phalcena signata, Scopoli. 



Species 36. — Eupithecia variegata p — (Plate LXX., Fig. 18) — Measures 10 lines in expanse; wings 

 whitish, marbled with brownish shades, especially on the costa ; a nearly straight striga near the base, beyond 

 which is a narrow similar fascia, followed by another narrow fascia before the middle, and a central unangulated 

 ashy-coloured fascia, in which are three narrow brown marks, the ordinary black spot resting on the first of 

 them ; and the apical margin undulated and brown, interrupted with whitish ; bind wings ashy. Taken in the 

 woods round London, in June ; also reared at the end of April b}' Mr. Lambert, from the larva? found in 

 September. 



f Synonvmes. — Phalana variegata, Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 681. 

 Eupithecia insignata, Curtis ; Hubner. 



Species 37- — Eupithecia consign ata^ — (Plate LXX., Fig. 19) — Measures 9 lines in expanse ; the wings 

 are somewhat glaucous-coloured, with darker geminated strigse, which run together at the costa of the fore 

 wings, forming black dots, and with a short straight black streak in the place of the ordinary dark dot near the 

 middle of the wing towards the costa, beyond which is a triangular dark patch placed rather obliquely ; the hind 

 wings are whitish-ashy, with the ordinary dark central dot, and the outer margin indistinctly strigose. Very 

 rare. Taken about the end of June, in woods. The chrysalis found under the bark of the Whitethorn, by A. 

 Cooper, Esq., in April. 



1 Synonyme. — Geome<ra con«(,(7?io<a, Borkhausen; Hubner; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 682. 



Species 38. — Eupithecia venosata '' — (Plate LXX., Figs. 20, 21) — Varies from 10 to 12 lines in 

 expanse ; wings brownish white ; the fore ones marked with six clear but very delicate strigte, the first, third, 

 fourth, and fifth of which are thickened towards the costa ; the first is incurved and plain, the second very 

 slender and deeply angulated in the middle, as is also the third, which is dentate behind the middle ; the fourth 

 is approximate to the preceding behind, but wider apart towards the costa ; the fifth is deeply waved and 

 dentated, as is also the sixth, which last sends forth longitudinal black slender streaks to the apical margin ; 

 hind wings slightly strigose towards the anal and outer margin. The caterpillar is dull green, with a dark dorsal 

 line. Taken about the beginning of June, in gardens and lanes near woods, but rare. This is one of the most 

 elegantly marked species in the genus. 



' Synonvmes Phalwna venosata, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 683. 



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Phalana decussata, Donovan, vol. viii., pi. 266, fig. 3. 



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