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Species 1. — Timandra imitaria." — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 17.) — This delicate species measures 10 or 11 

 wings of a pale reddish clay colour, with an incurved striga before the ordinary brown dot, which is closely 

 followed by a second stronger striga or rather clouded fascia, whicli runs across all the wings, but preceding the 

 ordinary dot in the hind wings, and followed by another slender, dark, and more undulated striga ; fringe red. 

 A common and widely dispersed species. 



^^ Synonyme. — Geometra imitaria, Hiibner ; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 738. 



Species 2. — Timandra variegata "^ — (Plate LXXIII,, Fig. 19) — Measures 13 or 14 lines in expanse ; JhtfUi.t^ 



wings whitish, irrorated, with cinerescent atoms, with two nearly evanescent strigse across all the wings, and an 



oblique brown fascia rather beyond the middle, running across the ordinary dot of the hind wings; apical margin 



with an interrupted brown line. Rare but widely dispersed. Found in June, in lanes near woods. 



" Synonymes. — Phalcena variegata, Scopoli, Stephens ; Wood, 6g. 739. 

 Geometra strigillaria, Hiibner ; Haworth. 



Species 3. — Timandra emutaria - — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 20) — Measures 1 inch in expanse ; wings pale 

 buff tinged with red, and irrorated with brown atoms, all the wings having the ordinary subcentral dusky dot, 

 which is followed by an oblique, central, obscurely red fascia ; the apical margin with a row of small black dots. 

 Taken in the New Forest in July. 



y Synonyme. — Geometra emutaria^ Hiibner ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 740. 



Timandra subroseata, Haworth ; Stephens, which measures 1 inch in expanse, with the wings rosy 

 whitish, thickly irrorated with brown atoms, with an ashy striga running from near the tip of the fore wings to 

 the middle of the anal margin of the hind ones ; followed in the fore ones by an oblique row of about four very 

 minute black dots ; and which is also found in the Xew Forest and in Norfolk in -July ; is probably a variety 

 of the last described species. 



MACARIA, Curtis. PHIBOLIA, Duponchel. 

 This is another group, with irregular hind feet, the tibia of the males being dilated, and furnished with a 

 fascicle of liairs, capable of being concealed within a suture down the inside : the antennee in the same sex are 

 serrated beneath ; the palpi slightly projecting ; the fore wings slightly falcate at the tips, and the hind ones 

 angulated in the middle of the hind margin ; the disc without diagonal strigae. The caterpillars are moderately 

 slender, slightly attenuated in the thoracic segments; and the chrysalis is angular, and inclosed in a web 

 amongst the leaves. 



Species 1. — Macaria notata^ — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 21) — Measures from 13 to 15 lines in expanse ; 

 wings grayish white and atomose, the notch near the tips of the fore ones edged with dark brown ; the costa 

 ^vith four reddish or chestnut marks, the last much the largest ; and from which extend four ashy nearly obsolete 

 striga crossing all the wings, the last of which forms a fascia, which in the fore wings bears in the middle a group 

 of five small black dots, the hind wings with the ordinary black dot. The caterpillar is areen, with a row of 

 dark dorsal spots, and the sides darker ; head reddish ; it feeds on the willow ; and the moth appears in the 

 summer months in woods, especially those of Kent and Surrey ; but it is not common. 



'■ Synonyme. — Phalar.a Geometra notata, LinnEeus ; Hiibner; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, fig. 742. 



Species 2.— Macaria alternata -'—(Plate LXXIII., Fig. 23)— Measures from 13 to 15 lines in expanse, 

 and very closely resembles the preceding ; the wings are ashy white and atomose, with three fuscous striga ; on 



