136 CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 
darker streaks, and liver-coloured spots on the upper edge, and 
a deep black crescent in the middle; secont pair whitish-ash, 
with an ordinary central black spot. Rare. Yorkshire, Kent, 
and near London. 
Tue Netrep Pua (£. venosata, SreraENS) appears the be- 
ginning of June. Wings five-sixths of an inch to one inch, 
hoary ; first pair with four uniting waved black or white streaks, 
Scarce. Near London, and Kent. 
CLEOGENE (DuroncueEt). 
THe Srporness YELLow (Cl. tinctaria, StepHENs). Wings 
one inch one-third to five-twelfths, yellow, spotless, the an. 
tennee black or dusky. 
Tue Sporress Wuitse (C. niveata, SterPHENS). Wings eleven- 
twelfths of an inch, snow-white, spotless; first pair dusky 
underneath. Rare. Scotland. 
MINOA (TREITSCHEE),. 
Tar CuimNey-Sweeper (M. Cherophyllata, OcHSENHEIMER) 
appears the beginning of June, Wings one inch to one inch 
one-sixth, deep sooty black, with the tips of first pair only white; 
antennre and body of the same colour, Caterpil ull green; 
feeds on the Cherophyllum sylvestre. Co I Durham, 
Middlesex, and Surrey. 
Tur Dras Looper (M. Luphorbiata, OcHSENHEIMER,) ap- 
pears in woods, the end of May. Wings three-fourths of an 
inch to fiye-sixths, brownish-ash, ‘spotless and rounded; eyes 
black. Caterpillar, yellowish-green, dotted with white and 
black, with a dark line on the back; feeds on the Euphorbia 
Cyparissias. Rather scarce. Essex, Kent, and Surrey. 
BAPTA (SrepHENs). 
THe WHITE spoTTED PINION (B. bimaculata, STEPHENS) 
appears in June. Wings one inch to one inch one-sixth, snow- 
white, with a black dot in the middle; first pair with two deep 
black spots on the upper edge. Local. Middlesex, and Kent, 
THE Croupep Sitver (B. punctata, Sreenens) appears in 
June. Wings one inch one-twelfth to one-third, snow-white, 
with a black central dot ; first pair with a blotch on the inner 
margin, a band on the hinder margin near the tip, and a row of 
dots on the margin itself, all black ; second pair with an evanes- 
cent dusky streak towards the hinder margin. Not common. 
Essex, and Kent. 
APLOCERA (STEPHENS), 
Tue Fesruary Carrer (A. cesiata, SteeHENS) appears the 
end of February and in June. Wings one inch one-fourth to 
one-half; first pair whitish, sprinkled with bluish and dusky, 
