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varyino- to dark ashy, very much irrorated with dusky atoms, and with small, irregular black marks, having an 

 abbreviated transverse streak near the base, followed by one or more black dots, another dark streak from the 

 costa beyond the middle of the wing, and another near the apex, these being more or less obsolete. The 

 caterpillar feeds on the aspen, and other trees, and the moth appears in March, and is found on the trunks 

 of trees. 



Species 2. — Diurnea Novembris — (Haworth ; Curtis, pi. 743 ; "Wood, fig. 1274, and our Plate CX., 

 Fig. 12) — The female expands 7 c 8 lines ; fore wings pale-brown, with white patches and scattered scales, 

 and a longitudinal, undulating line of white from near the base to the apical margin, edged interruptedly with 

 black. Male unknown. Foimd on the trunks of limes in various places round London, in November. 



SEMIOSCOPIS, HuBNER. EPIGRAPHIA, Stephens, (Catal.) 

 The palpi are elongate, slender, and recurved, with the tip acute ; the antennae of the males pubescent ; the 

 wings decumbent in repose ; the anterior longish, and lanceolate, of pale colours with darker letter-like 

 markings : the females are winged, but in general smaller than the males. 



Species 1. — Semioscopis Avellanella — (Hiibner, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1275, and our Plate CX., Fig. 13) — 

 Expands from 11 to 13 lines; fore wings whitish-buff varying to ashy, with darker irrorations, and a ramose- 

 longitudinal black streak more or less interrupted, and with some black or dusky dots at the extremity of the 

 costa and along the apical margin : rare. Taken in the Kentish Woods, in the Autumn. 



Species 2. — Semioscopis Steinkelnerana ' — (Fabricius, &c. ; Wood, fig. 1276, and our Plate CX., 

 Fig. 14) — Expands 9^ to 11 lines; fore wings ashy-brown, with a flexuous black streak on the disc more or 

 less interrupted, and with a few brownish dots ; the apical margin also with a row of black dots ; hind wings 

 dark ash. Taken in hedges and woods, at the end of March. 



' Synonyme. — Tinea characterella., Hubner. 



ANESYCHIA, Hubner, Stephens. 

 The palpi are long, slender, and curved upwards in front of the eyes, and slightly incurved, with the 

 third joint very slender and acute ; the antennae are simple and setaceous in both sexes ; tlie fore wings linear- 

 lanceolate, somewhat obliquely truncate on the apical margin, with the disc white or pale coloured, and marked 

 with large black blotches. The caterpillars do not reside in communities ; they are slightly pubescent, 

 longitudinally streaked with different colours, and the chrysalis is inclosed within an ovate-form cocoon. 



Species 1. — Anesychia echiella " — (Wien. Verz., &c. ; Wood, fig. 1278 ; Curtis, Brit. Ent., Plate 412,* 

 and our Plate CX., Fig. 16, and CXI., h) — Expands 12 or 13 lines; fore-wings with the costal half mouse- 

 coloured, except at the tip ; deeper along the middle of the wing, 'and emitting three black spots on the disc ; 

 the extremity of the costa and apical margin, as well as the thorax, dotted with black ; inner part of the wing 

 cream-coloured. Taken near Aylesbury and Dover in June, but very scarce. 



" Synonyme Alucila bipunctella, Fabricius. 



Species 2. — Anesychia pusiella'' — (Linnseus, &c. ; Stephens, pi. 39, fig. 3; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pi. 412, 

 fig. ** ; Wood, fig. 1277,* and our Plate CX., Fig. 15) — Expands from 13 to 15 lines ; fore wings cream- 



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