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black with white streaks; feeds on the bramble, black and red 
wortleberries, &c, Not uncommon, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, 
Surrey, and Devonshire. 
Tue DARK CuestNuT (G. spadicea, HAworTH) appears in 
September. Wings one inch one-fourth to one-third; first pair 
of an almost uniform chestnut colour, but somewhat clouded 
with dusky, the upper edge towards the hinder margin with a 
few pale spots. Not scarce. Near London, 
Tue Biack CuestNut (G. subnigra, STEPHENS) appears in 
September. Wings one inch one-fourth to one-third; first pair 
blackish chestnut, with a somewhat interrupted pale band near 
the hinder margin, composed of confluent white spots; second 
pair dusky, with the fringe slightly reddish ; the abdomen of the 
male less flat, Rare. Near London. 
Tae Nev Cuestnut (G. polita, HAworru) appears in Sep- 
tember. Wings one inch one-fourth to one-third; rust-red, 
with the nervures and streaks netted and powdered with ashy- 
grey. Caterpiliar pale brick-red, with black dots; feeds on 
taraxacum. 
AMPHIPYRA, (OcHSENHEIMER). 
Tue Copper UNpERWING (A. Pyramidea, OCHSENHEIMER) 
appears the beginning of August. Wings one inch two-thirds 
to two inches; first pair brown, varied with grey, with three 
waved yellowish streaks, and towards the middle the anterior 
stigma encircled with white; second pair copper coloured, with 
the upper edge brown. Caterpillar green, with a whitish line on 
the back and sides, and a large cone-shaped protuberance on the 
posterior segment; feeds on the oak. Rather scarce. Hereford- 
shire, Essex, Surrey, and Hampshire. 
PYROPHILA, (SterueEns). 
Tue Mouse (P. Tragopogonis, Sreruens) appears in June. 
Wings one inch one-fourth to one-third ; first pair mouse-brown, 
with three black spots in the middle; second pair livid brown. 
Caterpillar green, with five white lines, and a few whitish spots 
on the sides; feeds on the goat’s-beard, spinach, dock, larkspur, 
&c, Not scarce. Hertfordshire, Warwickshire, and Kent, 
THE Manocany (P. tetra, SrepHens) appears in June, 
Wings one inch one-fourth to five-twelfths ; first pair deep brown, 
with three indistinct brown spots in the middle, and four white 
ones on the upper edge; second pair rusty ash. Caterpillar 
green, with a white line on the back, and two red ones on the 
sides, the head small; feeds on various plants, Scarce, Essex, 
hear London, Somersetshire, and Devonshire. 
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DYPTERYGIA (Sreruens). 
Tue Birp’s Wino (D. Pinastri, Srerpnens) appears in June, 
Wings one inch five-twelfths to one-half, black, with an ashy- 
