CONSPECTUS OF MOTHS. 229 
THE VIOLACEOUS SLENDER (G. violacea, HAwortTH). Wings 
five lines and a half; first pair purple-violet, clouded with deep- 
black purple. Closely resembling the last, but smaller, and 
strongly clouded. Very uncommon. Near London, 
Tae Livip SLENDER (G. roscipennella, StEPHENS) appears in 
woods. Wings half an inch; first pair pale livid, with an indis- 
tinct purplish tinge, two oblique cross dots before, and two 
likewise cross behind the middle, the edge with yarious scat- 
tered brown dots, the rim of the upper edge also thickly dotted 
with brown; second pair as in the preceding; antenne brown. 
Near London. 
Tue Wuitk SLENDER (G. leucapennella, STEPHENS). 
THe PorLrar SLENDER (G. preangusta, HAworTH) appears 
in May, frequents poplars, and occurs in gardens. Wings six 
lines and a half; first pair ashy-grey or ashy-brown, with the 
upper edge paler at the base, in the middle of the wing deep 
black lines, then indistinct, and disposed in an interrupted 
streak ; second pair brown, with very long fringes, Common. 
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ALUCITID 4 (Leacn), 
PTEROPHORUS (GrorrRoy). 
THe LARGE Waite PLume (Pt. pentadactylus, FABRicius) 
“appears the middle of June, on banks, where nettles abound. 
Wings one inch one-twelfth, open, cleft, divided into five spaces, 
POW As with the fifth digit distinct. Abundant.” Near 
London. 
MARSHALL’s PLuME (Pt. spilodactylus, SteEpHENS). Very 
rare. 
Tur Grey Woop Piume (Pt. bipunctidactylus, Haworts). 
“Frequents woods. Wings eleven-twelfths of an inch; first 
pair forked, ashy grey, with an incisure one line and a half 
long, the segments parallel, above a pair of black dots, distinct 
from the tip of the wing, the intervals of one line and two 
thirds, and another smaller dot in the same place, remote from 
the base and other dots; second pair forked, rust-brown, shin- 
ing ; abdomen of one colour, with the second wings having two 
Silvery lines on the back, two on the sides, but not reaching as 
far as the middle, and two below these again; a black line on the 
sides near the abdomen. Very uncommon.” 
Toe Brown Woop Puiume (Pt. fuscodactylus, Curtis). 
“Occurs in woods. Wings five-sixths of an inch to eleven- 
twelfths, brown, spotless; first pair narrow at the base, 
forked as far as the third part; second pair three-forked, with 
the third digit separate; abdomen longish, slender, rather thick 
in the middle; legs white, nearly silvery ; antenne half the length 
of the body, In Haworth’s specimens the first wings are brick- 
brown, with an indistinct darker spot at the incisure, Common,” 
Near London. 
