70 BRITISH MOTHS 



Species 7- — Emjielesia albulata ' — (Plate LXXL, Fig. 18) — Measures 9 or 10 lines in expanse, and has 

 the fore wings whitish, with alternate, narrow, undulating fascias and strigEB, of grayish-red and white colours ; 

 the apical portion of the wing is greyish-red, in which is an undulated white striga, which runs across all the 

 wings ; hind wings brownish, with a narrow whitish fascia across the middle. Taken from the end of June to 

 the beginning of August, in pasture grounds, and widely dispersed, but not common. 



■■ Synonyjie, — PhalcBna albulata, Wien. Verz. ; Hiibner ; Fabiicius ; Haworth ; Stephens. 



Species 8.— Emmelesia trigonata' — Measures |- inch in expanse, and has all the wings white, with an 

 ' ashy-coloured fascia at the base, another in the middle, not interrupted, but formed of a costal patch, having a 



nearly triangular black spot, terminating in two obsolete bi'ownish strigse, which extend to the inner margin of 

 the wing; the apical margin of all the wings is ashy, bearing a strongly-waved whitish striga. Taken at the 

 end of June to the beginning of August, in hedges, at Westerham, Kent, and in Cumberland. This may 

 prove to be a variety of the next species. 



' Synonyme PhaltBna tru/onala, Haworth ; Stephens. 



Species 9. — Emmelesia t^niat a J — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 19) — Measures 11 lines in expanse, and has the 

 fore wings ashy-fulvous, a narrow dark brown fascia near the base, followed by several dark strigse, narrowed 

 behind ; across the middle of the wing runs a broad brown bar, inclosing a black central dot, with the edges 

 waved and margined with white ; the apex of the wing with a brown patch, behind which it is varied vrith 

 white and luteous, with a waved, subapical, slender whitish striga ; hind wings with a central dark dot, and a 

 subapical pale striga. Taken in Cumberland, iu July. 



J Emmelesia tceniata, Stephens, 111. Haust., vol. iii., pi. 32, fig. 2. 



Species 10. — Emmelesia unipasciata' — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 20) — Measures 10 or 11 lines in expanse, and 

 has the wings brownish-gray, with a central bar across the fore wings of brown, in which is the dark ordinary 

 dot, and having the inner margin incurved towards the costa, and along the outer margin is a narrow, somewhat 

 obsolete, subinterrupted, white, undulating striga ; near the apex is a faint, didymated, brown spot, and a short 

 dark oblique dash ; the margin itself with a dark, slightly interrupted line. Hind wings brown, with a small 

 central dot. Taken in the woods of Kent, in June and August. 



* Synonymes. — Phalisna niiifasciata, Haworth ; Stephens. 

 Acidalia salicaria, Tveitschke ? 



Species 11. — Emmelesia bifasciata" — (Plate LXXI., Fig. 21) — Measures 11 lines in expanse, and has 



the fore wings ashy, with two oblique, nearly straight, contiguous fascias, bordered on each side with white ; the 



•^c /a ^*<, outer one rather beyond the middle of the wing, and rather sinuated and extended outwards; beyond these 



fascia there is a brown, somewhat didymated spot towards the costa, and another smaller didymated one at the 



apical angle ; hind wings ashy. Taken in various parts of Kent and other parts of England, as well as in 



Scotland, at the end of June. 



" Synonvme. — Phaliena bifasciata, Haworth ; Stephens j Curtis. 



JL a^Kr,»^«— t Species 12. — Emmelesia rusticata" — (Plate LXXI., Figs. 22, 23) — Measures f of an inch in expanse; fore 



"1^^ <^ "^/""■' wings white, somewhat clouded with brown at the base, and with a brown waved fascia in the middle, inclosing 

 Ac Oiidc^UiL <j the ordinary black dot, with the outer margin as it were three-lobed ; between which and the apical margin, 

 ^•■^- in fine specimens, is a brownish striga. Hind vrings whitish, with a central dark dot, and with ashy waves 



" Phaliena rusticata, Wicu. Verz. ; Fahricius ; Hiihner ; Haworth ; Stephens. 



