96 CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS, 
middle; second pair with a waved white band in the middle, and 
an indistinct white spot at the hinder edge towards the posterior 
angle. Caterpillar said to feed on plantain. Not common, 
Hertfordshire, Kent, and Surrey. 
Tne Nun (A. aprica, OcuseNHEIMER), Wings one inch 
one-twelfth; (?) first pair white at the base, towards the 
outer margin black, with two spots on the upper edge of the same 
hue. Very rare. 
Tue SoLar (A. Solaris, OcoSENHEIMER). Wings one inch 
five-twelfths; first pair white at the base, brown atthe tip, witha 
square white spot on the upper edge; second pair white, with a 
brown border. Caterpillar, grey, with the head brick-red, each 
segment with two white spots; feeds on the trefoil, dandelion, 
&c. Rare. Near London, and Kent, 
Tue CAtorie (A. Caloris, OCHSENHEIMER). Wingsone inchone- 
third; first pair snowy-white atthe base, streaked with bluish, 
marbled in other parts with brown and bluish, with a white 
square spot at the anterior margin ; second pair whitish, with a 
broad brown marginal border. Very rare. 
Tue BLAck Kinney, (A. nigrirena, SterMENS). Wings one 
inch one sixth ; whitish, spotted with brown, with the first stigma 
dot-shaped, and the hinder one large, black, and kidney-shaped, 
Very rare, 
EUPHASIA (SrerHeEns), 
Tue Brixton Beaury (2. elegans, Syeeuens) appears the 
middle of September. Wings one inch one-third, very white; 
first pair with a white band towards the hinder margin, and two — 
spots on the upper edge, olive brown; a marginal row of brown — 
somewhat eye-like spots, disposed in a chain; second pair with 
a glossy purplish tinge in certain lights. Very rare. Surrey. 
ERASTRIA (OcusEnnuEIMER). 
Tue Srorrep Sunenur (MM. sulphurea, OcuseNHEIMER) 
appears the middle of July in fields. Wings five-sixths to eleyen- 
twelfths ; first pair primrose yellow, with five black spots on, or 
near the upper edge, and four in a row on the hinder margin, 
and two rather thick black streaks; second pair brown, with 4 
whitish fringe. Caterpillar, grass-green, with a black line onthe 
back, and a yellow streak on the sides ; feeds on the Convolvu- 
lus arvensis. Rare, Kent and Surrey, 
THE Strver Hook (2. uncana, OcusENnEIMER) appears the 
end of June, in marshes. Wings eleven-twelfths to one inch, 
brown ; first pair with the exterior margin whitish; from the 
middle arises a bent twig; the fringe of all the wings dusky, 
with a dark base line. Caterpillar, green, with a pale line on the — 
sides ; feeds on Carices. “Not rare. Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, 
Devonshire, and Hampshire. 
THE SILVER-BARRED (KE. Bankiana, Steruens) appears the 
