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striga, and with a large dusky cloud on the outer angle. A very widely dispersed, and not very rare species, 

 found about the end of June. 



■° SynonyiMes. — Pyralis institialis, TiuhaeT ; Curtis; Stephens (Illnstr.) ; Wood, fig. 829. 

 Pyralis httealis, Hawortli ; Stephens (Catal.) ; but not of Hiibner. 



Species 23. — Margaritia stramentalis ° — (Plate LXXVIII., Fig. 8) — Measures 1 inch in expanse ; 



fore wings straw-yellow, pulverose, reticulated with faint pitchy brown veins, and four nearly equi-distant waved 



.^rwt^^ striga, the ordinary space between the stigmata being pale ; the outer stigma reniform, and edged with brown 



j^ ^ lines, and connected with the preceding one, which is heart-shaped ; hind wings whitish-buff, with the posterior 



margin and a slender line near the margin of brown ; the fringe of the fore wings ashy, of the hind ones white, 



and with a dusky spot near the anal angle. Taken in marshy places near London, and in Norfolk, in June. 



" Synokvmes. — Pyralis stramentalis, Treitschke ; Hiibner; (Verz.) Stephens (lUust.) ; "Wood, fig. 830. 

 Pyralis elutalis, Hiibner ; Haworth ; Stephens. (Catal.) 



Species 24. — Margaritia margaritalis o — (Plate LXXVIII., Figs. 9, 10) — Measures about 1^ inch in 



-, expanse; fore wings pale orange or rich straw-coloured, with the extremity reddish brown, with slight indica- 



jth'^'^ . . ... 



hutaf'UlA^' tions of strigffi across and beyond the middle of the wing, and an oblique darker patch at the apex ; Lind wings 



'^'^ paler, almost white, with a pale reddish-brown margin. Taken in Norfolk, Berks, and near Bedford, and 



Bristol, in June. The caterpillar is straw-coloured, with a reddish line on each side, and black dots. It feeds 



on grasses. 



° Synonymes. — Phalwna margaritalis, Wkn. Verz ; Fabricius; Stephens; Wood, fig, 831. 

 Pyralis erucalis, Hiibner. 





Species 25. — Margaritia sericealis p — (Plate LXXVIII., Fig. 1 1) — Measures 10 lines in expanse ; 

 ^Im^^t^ fore wings yellow buff, with the tips reddish brown, and with a reniform brown stigma, each end bearing a black 

 dot, beyond which is a slight yellow brown striga ; hind wings pale dirty white. The caterpillar is green, with 

 two white stripes down the back, and some black dots ; it feeds on grasses. The moth is rather common, and 

 is taken in woods, in July. 



P Synonymes Pyralis sericealis, Wien. Yerz. ; Hiibner ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 832. 



Pyralis Leeana, Fabricius ; Donovan 10, pi. 357, fig. 1. 



Species 26. — Margaritia alpinalis "^ — (Plate LXXVIII., Fig. 12) — Measures 13 lines .in expanse ; 

 Ji^^U> r^j.g ^j^gg ^y]j ashy-coloured, with darker scales, and a small pale, almost indistinct, spot beyond the middle 

 JZ towards the costa ; hind wings paler, with an ashy border. Taken on the tops of some of the Scotch mountains, 



in July. 



1 Synonymes Pyralis alpinalis, y^Ken. Verz; Hiibner; Stephens (lUust.); Wood, fig. 833. 



Scapula uliginosalis, Curtis, MS. ; Stephens (Catal.) 



Species 27. — Margaritia sticticalis ■■ — (Plate LXXVIII., Fig. 13) — Measures 13 or 14 lines in 



J^cioeUj expanse ; wings shining, brownish, with a square whitish patch in the middle towards the costa, a pale dot on 



UCtM.uO-' ^,ijg costa near the apex, and a sub-marginal whitish striga; hind wings brown, with an obsolete darker striga 



beyond the middle. Taken in July, and widely dispersed, but rare. 



' Synonymes. — Phaltena Pyralis sticticalis, Linnseus ; Stephens, I Pyralis tetragonalis, Haworth ; Stephens (Catal.) 

 (Illustr.) ; Wood, fig. 834. I Pyralis fuscaliSjHahnet. 



Ji^,.^,j Species 28. — Margaritia olivalis^ — (Plate LXXVIII., Fig. 14) — Measures 1 inch in expanse; fore 



od'vhfi-i winss brown, with two small white spots towards the base, a squarish white patch in the middle towards the 



