CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 117 
of June. Wings one inch one-fourth to five-twelfths, pale lead 
colour, thickly sprinkled with dusky dots; first pair with three 
straight slanting equi-distant streaks, anda line at the tip dusky, 
edged with tawny; second pair whitish, with a cross central 
dusky streak. Common. Hertfordshire, Essex, Kent, and Surrey. 
LARENTIA (TREITSCHEE). 
Tuk MALLow (ZL. cervinaria, OcuSENHEIMER) appears in 
woods, the middle of October, Wings one inch two-thirds to 
eleven-twelfths; first pair rusty brown, with an obscure central 
band, greyish at the margins, and a strongly waved white streak 
near the hinder margin; second pair pale reddish, with a darker 
streak behind the middle. Caterpillar, dull green, with the sides 
yellowish, and the segments margined with yellowish; feeds on 
the mallow. Rather scarce. Durham, Essex, Kent, and Surrey. 
Tur GoosE-root (L. chenopodiata, SrzeuENs) appears in June 
and August. Wings one inch one-sixteenth to one-third; first 
pair pale dusky red or tawny, with various indistinct waved 
streaks before the middle, a broad band in the centre, composed 
of several dusky streaks, behind this several indistinct darker 
streaks, with an oblique dusky line at the tip; second pair with 
two or three dusky cross streaks. Caterpillar, yellowish-green, 
with dark spots; feeds on grapes. Common. Durham, York~- 
shire, Cheshire, Cambridgeshire, Herts, Essex, Kent, and Surrey. 
Tue Cuavx Carper (L. bipunctaria, OcHSENHEIMER) appears 
in July. Wings one inch one-fourth to five-twelfths ; first pair 
whitish-ash, waved with dusky, with an oblique dusky band 
inthe middle, in which there is a black twin spot; second pair 
dusky-ash, with the streaks very indistinct. Caterpillar, ashy- 
grey, with hairy lines on the back and sides; feeds on the trefoil, 
red-darnel grass, &c, Common. Durham, Derbyshire, Herts, 
and Kent, 
Tur Morriep Grey (L. multistrigaria, SreruEns) appears in 
March. Wings one inch one-twelfth to one-third, pale ashy, 
having on the hinder margins a row of black twin dots; first 
pair with numerous streaks and bandlets of a deeper hue, com- 
posed, as it were, of dusky spots and clouds; second pair whitish, 
with two darker evanescent streaks on the middle. Rare. Bssex, 
and Middlesex, 
bs CIDARIA (TreEiTSCHKE). 
Tur Twin-sror CArvgEt (C. didymata, StePHENS) appears the 
end of July. Wings one inch one twelfth to one-sixth, ash- 
coloured, clouded; first pair with interrupted brown and white 
streaks and bands, and towards the hinder margin a brown twin 
Spot. Common, Durham, Kent, Surrey, and Devonshire, 
Taz Rurous Carper (C. munitata, SterHeNs) appears the 
end of June. Wings one inch one-twelfth to one-fourth, pale 
dusky, or whitish; first pair with a reddish tawny band at the 
base, and another in the middle; second pair with a tinge of yel- 
