100 CONSPECTUS OF MOTHs. 
Tue PRomisED (C. promissa, OcHSENHEIMER) appears: the 
endof June. Wings two inches one-quarter to five-sixths ; first 
pair ash-coloured, with black wavy streaks; second pair rich 
crimson, with a narrow wavy shortish black band towards the 
middle, and a black marginal border. Caterpillar, bluish ash, 
with black spots; feeds on the oak. Scarce. Surrey and Hants, 
Tur Untrep (C, conjuncta, OcHsENuEIMER). Wings two 
inches one-third; first pair ashy brown, clouded with black ;~ 
second pair rich crimson, with a nearly straight, slender, and 
somewhat line-like black band in the middle, and broad black 
marginal border, Rare, Surrey. 
BREPHA (Hiipner). 
Tue VirGIN (B. Parthenias, OcusENnxIMER) appears the end 
of March. Wings one inch to one inch one-third; first pair 
brown, sprinkled with ashy-grey ; second pair pale orange, with 
a spotat the base, an angular band in the middle, and the mar. 
ginal border black. Caterpillar, yellowish-green, with a bluish. 
black line and black spots on the sides; feeds upon poplars and — 
willows, Not rare, Essex, Herts, Middlesex, Kent, and Surrey. 
THe Girt (B, puella, Ocusennermen), Wings one inch 
one-quarter ; firstpair ashy brown, with indistinct darker bands; 
second pair yellow, with a blotch at the base, a central band, 
and hinder margin black. Caterpillar, violet, with a white line 
on the back and sides, each segment with two Spots on the 
middle under the line on the back; feeds on the aspen. Very 
rare. 
Tue Hazen (B. notha, OcusENHEIMER) appears the end of 
March. Wings one inch one-sixth to one-third ; first pair rusty, 
sprinkled with ashy grey, having white Spots; second pair bright 
orange, with a patch at the base, an angular band in the centre, 
and an interrupted marginal border, black. Caterpillar, green, 
with a yellowish line on the back, and a grey one on the sides; 
feeds on the oak, birch, and hazel. Rather Scarce. Yorkshire, 
Essex, Kent, and Surrey. 
——ae, 
EUCLIDIA (OcCHSENHEIMER), 
THE SHEPHERD’s Crus (EK. glyphica, OcHSENHEIMER) ap- 
pears in June. Wings one inch to one inch one-sixth ; first 
pair greyish, with an oblique band before and another behind the 
middle, a square spot on the upper edge near the tip, and a mar- 
ginal band, brown ; second pair yellow, with the base, streaks, 
neryures, and hinder margin blackish; all the fringes brown, 
Caterpillar, rusty grey, with a brown streak on the back and 
sides, the latter have a row of blackish dots above and beneath 
the streak; feeds on the Verbasci and Trifolium pratense, Not 
uncommon. North Wales, Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Huntingdon- 
shire, and Essex, 
Tae Taree Corners (FE. triguetra, OcnsENnHEIMER), Sail 
to be British on doubtful authority, 
