CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 185 
beginning of June on hedges. Wings eight lines one-half; first 
pair whitish ash, rough, with white patches, lines, and streaks 
on te upper edge; second pair ash-grey. Not common.” Near 
London. 
LOZOPERA (STEPHENS). 
Tur STEPHENSIAN (L. alternana, STEPHENS), 
Tae Suorr BARRED StRAw (L. straminea, STEPHENS) ‘ap. 
pears the end of June, in meadows. Wings two-thirds of an 
inch; first pair pale straw yellow, with a short oblique tawny 
bandlet rather before the middle of the inner margin, and reach- 
ing towards the upper edge; second pair whitish, with very large 
silky-white fringes. Very uncommon.” Near London. 
Tur FABRICIAN (L. Fabriciana, Stepuens). ‘ Wings seven- 
twelfths of an inch, slender ; first pair pale straw-yellow, with a 
band, as in the last, opposite to the patch on the upper edge ; and 
behind this band, another very similar band also, opposite the 
patch on the upper edge; the bandsare oblique,interrupted, and 
brown ; second pair pale brownish. Not common,’ Near London. 
THE FRANCILLONIAN (L. Francillana, SteruENs). “ Wings 
half an inch, of a deep straw-colour, with two oblique com- 
plete brown bands. Very uncommon,” Near London. 
XANTHOSETIA (Srepuens). 
THE Z@GIAN (X. Zegana, SrerHENS) ‘appears the beginning 
of August on grasses. Wings three-fourths of an inch; first pair 
yellow, with the upper edge at the base, and a spot in the middle 
near the thinner margin, rust-red; the hinder margin also rust- 
aes with a rather large, hemispherical, yellow patch.” Near 
ondon. 
Tue CLoupEp Iron (X. ferrugana, Steruens). “ Wings two- 
thirds of an inch; first pair iron-brown, posteriorly brown, with 
aniron red patch. Very similar to the last, from which it only 
differs in the colours of the first pair of wings, Norfolk,” and 
near London, 
Tus HoOOK-MARKED StRAw (X. hamana, STEPHENS) “ appears 
the beginning of August on grasses. Head, antenne, palpi, and 
Vent-tuft, yellow; abdomen brown. Wings three-fourths of an 
inch; first pair yellow, with a minute and very indistinct dot in 
the middle towards the thinner margin; and ‘an oblique hook- 
shaped blotch towards the hinder margin iron-coloured; the 
blotch runs from the posterior angle towards the middle of the 
wing, where it becomes wavy on its outer edge; second pair 
dusky, with whitish fringes.” “Near London, 
Tue Crossep Straw (X. diversana, Srernens) “ appears the 
beginning of August on grasses. Very similar to the foregoing. 
Wings three-fourths of an inch; first pair yellow, with the upper 
edge at the base, a patch in the middle, and a common posterior 
atch iron-coloured; a streak arched on its outer edge often 
issues from the patch in the centre of the upper edge to the 
