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end of June or beginning of July in boggy places. Wings five- 
sixths to eleven-twelfths of an inch; first pair olive brown, with 
two snow-white bands, the outer one with a single tooth; near 
the tip of the upper edge is a small comma-shaped white spot. 
Caterpillar green, with a white line on the sides. Rare. Norfolk. 
Tae Rosy MARBLED (EK. venustula, Curtis), Wings two- 
thirds to three-fourths of an inch; first pair whitish, brown in 
the centre and at the outer margin, with a central rose-co- 
Joured and a rather large blackish spot towards the inner edge. 
Caterpillar reddish brown, with two broad orange-yellow belts, 
anda dusky stripe on the back and curved streaks on the sides. 
Very rare. Essex. 
Tue DwARF MARBLE (E. minuta, OCHSENHEIMER). Wings 
three fourths of an inch ; first pair variegated with white, brown, 
lead colour, yellow, red, and olive; the base white, the hinder 
edge with a row of minute black dots; second pair brown, with 
the margins darker. Rare. West of England. 
Tur ScARLEr (EK. ostrina, Curtis) appears in June. Wings 
three-fourths of an inch; first pair yellowish white, with violet 
streaks, and a white indented streak next the hinder margin. 
Very rare. Devonshire. 
Tae Bossom Tip (2. apicosa, Stepuens). Wings one inch; 
first pair glossy black from the base to beyond the middle, with 
a marginal border and stigmata purplish; second pair brown, 
with a darker spot in the centre. Very rare. 
Tae MARBLED Waite Spor (E. fuscula, OCHSENHEIMER) ap- 
pears the end of June. Wings one inch; first pair ash coloured, 
variegated with brown, black, and white; towards the posterior 
anglea white oblong patch, behind which is a white streak cross- 
ing from the upper edge to the inner margin. Caterpillar, yellow, 
with a broad reddish streak on the back, and line on the sides ; 
feedson the bramble. Scarce. Kent and Surrey. 
Tuk MARBLED Wuite LINE (2. albidilinea, SterPHENS) very 
similar to the preceding, of which it is probably a variety, and 
from which it differs in the absence of the white spot at the pos- 
terior angle, and having the white waved streak at the hinder 
edge very indistinct. Very rare. Kent and Surrey. 
PHYTOMETRA (Haworrn). 
Tuk Bronze BAR (P. enea, HAworrn) appears the end of 
August on heaths. Wings seven-twelfths to three-fourths of an 
inch, olive brown ; first pair with a slanting purplish band be- 
hind the middle, and another on the hinder margin. Not searce. 
Hertfordshire, Kent, and Surrey. 
ACOSMETIA (SrerHeEns). 
THE Rep Burr (A. lutescens, SreruENS) appears in July. 
Wings one inch to one inch one-sixth; first pair nearly uniform 
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