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costa, followed by an oblong one, and an indistinct striga ; costa with some black and white dots at the 

 extremity ; hind wings whitish with a brown border. Caterpillar dull green, with broad pale stripes on the 

 back and sides, and a green head ; it feeds on Veronica officinalis ; and the moth appears in June, and is very 

 abundant. 



* S\-No>-k-MEs. — Pyralis olivalis, Wien. Ven. ; Curtis ; Stephens I Scapula nivealis, Fabricius ; Haworth ; Harris ; Anrelian, pi. "29, 

 (Illustr.) ; Wood, fig. 835. ( fig. p — s ; Stephens (Catal.) Pyralis umbralis, Hiibner. 



Species 29. — Margaritia prunalis '. — (Plate LXXVIII., Figs. 15, 16.) — This common insect measures 

 about 1 inch in expanse, and has the fore- wings dull ashy-brown very slightly clouded with lighter shades ; 

 the two ordinary stigmata indicated by dusky outlines, and behind them is a very slight dusky striga, and 

 followed by a curved zigzag striga : a row of small black dots along the apical margin of the wings ; the costa, 

 towards the apex, is varied with white and dusky dots. The caterpillar is green, with paler dorsal stripes and 

 black dots. It feeds on the blackthorn ; and the moth appears at the end of June. 



' Synonymes. — Pyralis prunalis, Wien. Verz. ; Treitschke ; 

 Stephens ; Wood, fig. 836. 



Pyralis nebulalis, Haworth ; but not of Hiibner. 



Pyralis leucophealis, Hiibner. 

 Pyralis elutalis, Wien. Verz. 

 Pyralis albinalis, Hiibner. 



NASCIA, Curtis. MARGARITIA, pars, Stephens. 

 The antenns are slender and filiform ; the labial palpi porrected in front of the head, and drooping slightly 

 like a beak ; the maxiUae, or spiral tongue, rather short ; the maxillary palpi short, distinct, with the apex 

 truncate ; the fore wings with the apex slightly hooked. 



Species 1. — Nascia cilialis" — (Plate LXSVIH., Fig. 19) — Measures 11 lines in expanse; fore wings 

 pale orange, with the costa and veins bright ferruginous, the former shaded with a grayish bloom, the edge 

 white, fringe whitish, with a brown line at the base : hind wings ochreous, yeUowish-white at the base. Taken 

 near Cambridge, in June. 



Obs. In Hlibner's figure there is a dusky suffused subapical striga in the fore wings, of which Mr. Curtis''3 

 specimen is destitute. 



" SYNomfME. — Pyralis cilialis, Hiibner ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 599 ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 821. 



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CYN^DA, HuBNER, Stephens. ODONTIA, Duponchel, Curtis. 

 The antennas are rather short, slender, and simple ; the spiral tongue very short ; the maxillary palpi 

 developed and squamose ; the labial palpi rather longer than the head, porrected straight in front, and beak- 

 like ; the tip gradually acuminated ; the fore wings are rounded at the tips, and are stated to be carried in a 

 deflexed triangle when at rest. The caterpillars are thick, smooth, white, and fleshy, with small black tubercles ; 

 they have sixteen feet, and reside in the stalks of plants. 



Species 1. — Cyx.s:da dentalis'' — (Plate LXXVIII., Figs. 17, 18) — Measures 10 or 11 lines in expanse; 

 wings very pale straw-coloured buff, varied with white transverse markings in the middle, towards the costa, 

 followed by a very dentated or stellated white striga, edged with black dentated or very zigzag lines, and iKMJS&v 

 followed by pale longitudinal dashes extending to the tips of the fringe, separated from each other by black 

 lines ; hind wings with a similar dentated striga beyond the middle. The caterpillar is pale and flesh-coloured. 



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