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{ar BRINDLED STREAK (B. strigularia, SterHENS) appears in 
July. Wings one inch five-twelfths to one inch, ashy white, 
clouded with grey, sprinkled with dusky, with very indistinct 
common, slightly indented, duskyish streaks, and black spots on 
the hinder margin, Very rare. Kent, 
Tae BrinpLep Waite Spor (B. extersaria, OCHSENHEIMER) 
appears the beginning of June. Wings one inch one-third, ashy 
grey, dotted and spotted with dusky, with indistinct darker 
streaks, and towards the hinder margin a pale or whitish waved 
streak, near the middle of which, in the first pair, is a rounded 
white patch. Very rare. Middlesex, and Kent. 
Tue Grey Bircu (B. punctularia, SreruHeNs) appears the 
middle of May. Wings one inch one-twelfth to one-fourth, ashy 
white, sprinkled with dusky, with three or four nearly common 
waved, arched, somewhat interrupted, dusky streaks, which are 
more evanescent in the second pair ; fringes whitish with dusky 
spots. Caterpillar, dusky grey brown, with five stripes and a 
whitish streak on each segment; feedson the birch. Common. 
Durham, Warwickshire, Essex, Kent, and Surrey. 
HALIA (DuroncHeEL). 
Tue L. Morn (H. Vauaria, SterHeNs) appears in June and 
July. Wings one inch one-twelfth to one-fourth, ash coloured ; 
first pair with four black shortish unequal bands adjoining the 
second, and towards the upper edge a black V-like character ; 
second pair with a small dusky spot in the middle. Caterpillar, 
greenish, with black spots and a yellow line on the back and 
sides; feeds on the currant and gooseberry. Too common, 
Durham, Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, and near London, 
Tue BuAck VAvu (Vaw nigraria, HAworTH) appears in July. 
Wings one inch one-twelfth to one-fourth, ashy black, with a 
black V-like mark in the middle towards the upper edge; second 
pair paler, with a blackish margin. A variety of H. Vauaria, 
Very rare, 
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NUMERIA (DuponcHeEL). 
Tae BARRED Umprs (N. pulveraria, STEPHENS) appears the 
end of April and beginning of June, in woods. Wings one inch 
one-sixth to seven-twelfths, red, thickly powdered with the same; 
first pair with a brownish red hatchet-shaped band in the middle; 
second pair with an oblique indistinct line at the posterior angle. 
Caterpillar, reddish brown, with bright streaks on each segment ; 
feeds on blackthorn and willow. Not common, Cumberland, 
Essex, and near London. 
CABERA (OcHSENHEIMER). 
Tar Wire Wave (C. pusaria, OcHSENHEIMER) appears in 
May and August. Wings one inch one-sixth to one-third, snow 
white, faintly speckled with pale dusky; first pair with three 
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