AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 69 



Species 1. — Emmelesia decolorata '' — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 12) — Varies from 1 to IJ- inch in expanse; 



fore winfs pale buff-coloured, with rather pale undulations, and with four obsoletely dentated white fascise, which 



are equidistant, the first being placed near the base, the second rather before the middle, the third broader, 



beyond the middle, and often interrupted ; the fourth very slender and subapical. The hiud wings are white, 



with a subcentral striga, and the apical margin slightly brownish. Very common in hedges and lanes, near 



woods, in June. 



^ SvNoNYME, — Genmetra decolorata, Hiibner; Haworth ; Stephens. 



Species 2. — Emmelesia affinitata <" — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 13) — Measures rather more than an inch in 



expanse ; wings of a brownish clay-colour, with brown undulated strigae, and with a conspicuous, white, 



irregularly-waved fascia beyond the middle, in which is a slender, brownish, undulated striga ; between this 



fascia and the apical margin is a very slender, nearly obsolete striga, formed of white arches, and at the apex 



itself the ordinary oblique, short, brown line. Hind wings pale brown, with a slightly-crenated, whitish, 



subapical fascia. Widely dispersed, and far from rare. Taken in June. 



* Synonymes. — Emmelesia a^nitata, Hiibner. 

 Geometra alchemillata^ Hawortb, but not of Stepbens. 



Species 3. — Emmelesia tdrbaria'' — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 14) — Measures 10 or 11 lines in expanse; A } y 

 wings brown, with numerous slender darker waves ; the fore ones with a fascia in the middle, which is narrow, 

 and darker than the rest of the wing, followed by a narrow, more or less obsolete, white, sinuated, waved striga. 

 placed beyond the middle, followed by a nearly obliterated, subapical, paler striga. Hind wings brown, with a 

 dark dot in the middle, and an obsolete paler fascia beyond the middle. Found about the end of June, in 



numerous parts of the country, and far from rare. 



** Synonymes PUaliSJia iurbaria^ Wien. Verz. ; Stepbens, 111.; Hiibner, 



Geometra rivutata, Haworth, but not of Hiibner. 



Species 4. — Emmelesia rivulata "■ — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 15) — Measures about |^ inch in expanse; fore 

 wings pale fulvous brown, with darker undulated strigEe, a pale grayish fascia before the middle, often indistinct , 

 and a broad, irregularly waved, white bar beyond the middle, in whicii is a slender brown line, and with a 

 subapical, waved, very slender, white line; hind wings pale brown, very slightly undulated, and with the apical -.'■■f'-^^-'UiiUa. 

 margin rather darker. The caterpillar is yellowish-green, with chesnut streaks ; it feeds on the Lamium 

 purpureum, and the moth appears in June, and is taken in grassy places, in woods and lanes, and is widely 

 dispersed, but rather rare. 



« Synonymes PhaliBna rivulata, Wien. Verz.; Hiibner; Stepbens, lUustr. ; but not of Haworth. 



Phalwna nassata, Fabricius ; Haworth. 



Species 5. — Emmelesia ericetata ' — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 16) — Measures 7 or 8 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wings ashy-white, with several blackish curved strigae towards the base, followed by a central bar, with the 

 edges very irregular and spotted with black, and bearing in its open part the ordinary black dot ; followed by a 

 pale whitish bar, in which is a slender brovvnish striga ; the apical portion of the wing brown and gray, with a 

 subapical, dentated, white striga ; apical margin with black dots, arranged in pairs ; hind wings slightly strigose. 

 Taken in the north of England and Scotland, in June and July. 



' Synonyme. — Geometra ericetata, Stephens, Illustr. H. Ill, pi. 32, fij. 3. 



Species 6. — Emmelesia blandiata ^ — (Plate LXXI, Fig. 17) — Measures f inch in expanse of the fore 

 wings, which are snow-white, with an interrupted brown fascia in the middle, and the apical margin brownish, 

 with an undulated white striga ; the hind wings white at the base, with the apical margin brownish. Taken in 

 the north of England and Scotland, in June. 



^ Synonyme. — Geometra blandiata, Wien. Verz. ; Hiibner, fig. 258 ; Stcpbena. 



