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apical. Wings entire, rounded, rugose, clouded ; lines angular. 

 Fore wings straight along the costa ; exterior border convex. Male. 

 — Antennae plumose to the tips. Abdomen short, conical. Female. 

 — Antennae simple. Abdomen somewhat longer. 



1. BlSTON HIRTARIA. 



Nigricans, albido conspersa, ochraceo suffusa ; alee anticce lineis 

 obliquis nigris denticulatis indeterminatis ; posticce palli- 

 diores, lineis tribus indistinctis subrectis. 



, Albin, Ins. pi. 39, f. 62. Deg. Ins. i. pi. 22, f. 6. 



Kliem. pi. 34, f. 1—4. Wilk. Pap. 70. 

 Phalaena-Geometra hirtaria, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1236. Clerck, Icon. 



pi. 7, f. 1. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, 2468, 693. 

 Phalaena hirtaria, Wien. Verz. 99, 3. Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 191, 60 ; 



Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 149, 72. Brahm, Ins. ii. 37, 12. 

 Geometra hirtaria, Borkh. Eur. Schm. v. 184, 74. Sepp. Ins. ii. pi. 



12, 13. Esp. Schm. v. 165, pi. 29, f. 1—7. Hubn. Geom. pi. 



33, f. 175. Haw. Lep. Brit. 273, 3. 

 Geometra congeneraria, Hubn. Geom. f. 174. Haw. Lep. Brit. 



273, 4. 

 Geometra fumaria, Haw. Lep. Brit. 273, 5. 

 Lycia hirtaria, Hubn. Verz. Schm. 319, 3074. 

 Amphidasys hirtaria, Treit. Schm. vi. 1, 236, 3. Hup. Lep. iv. 279, 



pi. 153, f. 5, 6. Bond. Ind. 195, 1542. 

 Biston hirtaria, Steph. III. Brit. Haust. iii. 159. Herr.-Sch. Eur. 



Schm. iii. 102, 275. 

 Biston necessaria, Zell. Isis, 1847, 18. 



a — /. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 

 m — v. England. 



u — aa. Europe. From M. Becker's collection. 

 66, cc. Europe. 



2. Biston ursaria. 



Mas. Obscure cinerea, crassa, pilosissima, nigro conspersa ; an- 

 tenna latissime pectinatee ; pedes dense fasciculati ; alee an- 

 ticce lineis quatuor obliquis nigris, \aflexa, 2a Saque approxi- 

 matis subundulalis, Aa diffusa ; posticce linea \a obsoleta, 4a 

 e striga brevi lata postica. 



Male. Dark cinereous, speckled with black, very robust and 

 pilose. Antennae very broadly pectinated. Thorax with three black 

 bands. Legs densely tufted. Fore wings with four black oblique 

 lines ; first line bent ; second and third lines approximate, slightly 



