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Species 3. — Acidalia virgularia '' — (Plate LXXIIL, Fig. 3) — Measures from 7 to 10 lines in expanse, 

 and has the wings long and ashy-coloured, and thickly pulverose, with two oblique strigse, one of which is 

 rather angulated before, and the other in the middle, of the wings ; the latter running across the hind wings, 

 and with a broadish somewhat brownish border to all the wings, with minute white clouds and black specks ; 

 Jntt,-r,>,u'<-- the margin itself with small black dots. A very common and widely-dispersed species, taken about the 

 beginning of July, in hedges. 



' Synonyme. — Geometra virgularia, Hubner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 725. 



Species 4. — Acidalia subsericeata ' — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 4) — Measures 11 lines in expanse ; wings 

 somewhat sericeous, pale whitish, with a greenish tinge, and five dusky undulating strigae, placed at equal 

 distances apart ; all, except the first, running also across the hind wings ; the central ordinary dark dot being 

 occasionally obsolete ; apical margins with a row of dusky dots. Taken at Darenth Wood, in Kent, in June. 



' Synonyme. — PhaltBtia subsericeata, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 72G. 



Species 5. — Acidalia aversataJ — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 5) — Measures nearly 1^ inch in expanse; 

 wings whitish or reddish ashy, thickly irrorated with brown atoms, with an evanescent brownish striga pre- 

 ceding, and another, extending across all the wings, beyond the broad brown fascia, which is somewhat 

 undulated, and extends across all the wings ; apical margin with a row of minute black dots. Very common 

 in woods, in July and September. 



J Synonyme. — Phal(Bna Geometra aversata, Linnaeus; Haworth; Hubner; Stephens; Wood, fig. 728. 



Species 6.- — -Acidalia degeneraria "^ — Measures 13 lines in expanse; pale ochreous brown; all the 

 wings with a subcentral black dot ; the fore ones with the costa red, and a reddish -brown fascia, rather before 

 the middle ; and between it and the apical margin are two parallel sinuated fuscous strigEe, and another 

 subapical almost indistinct ; the outer portion of the red fascia and the strigee carried across the hind wings ; 

 the margin itself with a brown line. A single specimen, taken by Mr. Curtis, in the island of Portland, at the 

 end of June. Having been omitted in the plate, a figure will be added in the Appendix. 



^ Synonyme. — Geometra degeneraria, Hubner; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 384 ; Duponchel ; Stephens. 



S/vSVat. Species 7- — Acidalia remdtata ' — (Plate LXXIIL, Fig. 6) — Measures nearly 1^ inch in expanse, and 



has the wings whitish or reddish ashy-coloured and pulverose, with three equidistant slightly undulated strigae, 

 variable in intensity ; the two outer ones running across all the wings, and with a slender interrupted dark 

 brown line along the apical margin, and a row of minute black dots at the base of the fringe. Very common 

 in woods, in June and September. 



' Synonyme. — Phakena Geometra remutata, Linusus ; Haworth; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 729, but not of Hiibner. 



Species 8. — Acidalia inohnata " — (Plate LXXIIL, Fig. 7) — Measures nearly 1^ inch in expanse; 



wings pale brownish gray, nearly destitute of brown atoms, with three equidistant dusky strigje, which are 



nearly evanescent, and of which the posterior is sometimes obsoletely geminated ; the ordinary subcentral dark 



dot is distinct in all the wings, and the apical margin is destitute of the striga or dark dots of the preceding 



species, to which, however, this is very closely allied. Commonly taken in woods, especially those of Kent, 



in June and July. 



•" Synonymes. — Phalisna i«or/m/a, Haworth ; Stephens; Cur- | Phalana murinata? Fabricius. 

 lis : Wood, fig. 727. | Idica suffusata, Treitschke. 



