CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 67 
Tue DARK Brocane (H. adusta, OcusSENHEIMER). Wings one 
inch two-thirds to five-sixths; first pair varied with brown and 
ashy, with a black line, yellowish streaks and stigmata; second 
pair whitish, with the neryures and external margin dusky, 
Rare. Kent, and Surrey. 
Tue Porrnyry (11. satura, OcuseNnEIMER) appears the end 
of May. Wings one inch two-thirds to five-sixths; first pair 
blackish brown, with a black line, having the stigmata and band 
paler, and edged with black ; second pair dusky, with the mar- 
gin, nervures, and a central crescent darker, Rare. Surrey. 
Tae Gornic Brocape (H. remissa, STEPHENS) appears in 
June. Wings one inch one-half to two-thirds ; first pair pale 
dusky, clouded with two black lines at the base, and a very 
broad central arch; second pair dusky. Rather rare. Yorkshire, 
Salop, Hertfordshire, Kent, and Surrey. 
THE BRowN PINIONED BRrocADE (H. oblonga, SteruEns). 
Wings one inch one-half to two-thirds ; first pair ashy, clouded 
with a large wedged-shaped dusky spot behind, and another ob- 
long in the middle towards the inner edge, towards the poste- 
rior margin a whitish streak, which is very much waved ; second 
pair whitish, with a dusky border. Not common, Yorkshire, 
Essex, Kent, and Surrey. 
Tae SEA-GREEN (H, thalassina, OcHSENHEIMER). Wings one 
inch one-half to seyen-twelfths; first pair ashy brown, clouded 
with three white streaks, pale at the base, with a black line; 
second pair dusky. Notcommon, Yorkshire, Suffolk, Norfolk, 
Essex, Shropshire, and Devonshire. 
Tue Goruic (H. Geniste, OcCHSENHEIMER) appears in June. 
Wings one inch seven-twelfths to two-thirds; first pair silvery- 
white clouded with a black line at the base, and another resem- 
bling the letter I, in the centre } Second pair whitish, with a darker 
pes Rather uncommon. Devonshire, Kent, and Hertford- 
shire, 
Tae Prerry BrocaAnr (H. contigua, OCHSENHEIMER) appears 
in June. Wings one inch one-half to seven-twelfths ; first pair 
clouded, varied with dusky yellow and white, a white spot on the 
upper edge at the base, and another towards the inner margin; 
the hinder part of the wing is pale or ashy, with a white waved 
Streak interiorly edged with arrow-shaped spots; second pair 
whitish, with the nervares and marginal border dusky, Cater- 
pillar green, with a brown head, and two brown spots on the 
anterior segment, black stigmata; feeds on ragwort, broom, and 
other plants in August or September. Plentiful. Surrey. 
Tue Diney Brocane (H. obscura, StePHENS). Wings about 
one inch seven twelfths ; ashy brown; first pair with a large 
Spot on the upper edge at the base, internally edged with three 
black lines, towards the hinder margin a very indistinct waved 
pale streak. Perhaps a variety of one of the two preceding. 
Very rare. 
Tue GLaucous Supers (A. glauca, Steruens) appears in 
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