CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 101 
Tur Mask (E. Mi, Ocusenuermer) appears the end of June. 
Wings one inch to one inch one-sixth; first pair varied with 
black and white; second pair black, with spots and waved 
streaks white, all the fringes white, spotted with black. Ca- 
terpillar, reddish white, with a dark line onjthe back, and a 
whitish one on the sides; head brown, with pale stripes and dark 
spots ; feeds on the Medicago falcata, Common. Wales, York- 
shire, Suffolk, Huntingdonshire, and Essex. 
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GEOMETRINA (Rennie). 
GEOMETRID & (STEPHENS). 
PSODOS (TREITSCHKE). 
Tur BLAcK Moonvain (P. trepidaria, TREITSCHRE) appears 
in June. Wings five-sixths of an inch, smoky black, with a 
central band of a deeper tint, on both sides indented with a pale 
margin, Local, Schehalion, in Breadalbane, Scotland. 
Tur Gop Four-sror (P. alpinata, DuPONCHEL). Wings one 
inch, black, with a broad golden tawny band near the hinder 
margin, Rare. Kent. 
SPERANZA (CurTIs). 
Tur EMBroipERED YELLOw (S. limbaria, Curtis). Wings 
one inch one-twelfth to one-sixth, yellow, with minute brown 
dots, the antennze, upper edge of the wings, and hinder margin, 
black. Caterpillar, smooth, slender, green-brown, with a yellow 
stripe on the sides ; feeds on the broom. Not rare. Kent. 
Tar Wooptanp (L. sylvaria, Curris) appears in July. Wings 
five-sixths to eleven-twelfths of an inch; rusty buff colour, 
powdered with dusky, having dark waved cross streaks. Rare. 
Isle of Arran, Scotland. 
FIDONIA (TREITSCHKE). 
Tue WAveEp Brack (F. fuliginaria, StEPHENS) appears in June. 
Wings eleyen-twelfths of an inch, black, with three yellowish 
wayed interrupted streaks, and near the margin a common indis- 
tinct streak of yellowish dots. Exceedingly rare. Near London. 
Tux Brown Heatn (F. atomaria, HAwoRTH) appears in May, 
June, and August. Wings one inch to one inch one-fourth, yel- 
lowish white, sprinkled thickly with brown dots, with five con- 
joined common streaks, and marginal border of a deeper colour. 
Caterpillar, at first green, with reddish spots on the sides, with a 
brown stripe on the back, on each side of which on each seg- 
ment are small triangular deep brown spots; feeds on Scabious. 
Pupa subterranean. Common. Dumfriesshire, Cumberland, 
Durham, Yorkshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, and Kent, 
Tuz Buack Heatu (F. carbonaria, SrePHENS) appears the 
