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This pretty species is no commoner with us than the preceding ; 1 
it appears in May and August; the larva feeds on (Hehiwm vul- a 
gare) viper’s bugloss in July and October. 
3. funerella, Fab. Man. ii. 247. 74 (1787); Hiib.; Godart ; 
Treit.; Step.; Dup.; Zell.—/funerea, Haw. Alis anticis latioribus . 
albis postice nigris, costa preter maculam albam pone medium Jade irre- s, 
gulariterque nigra, punctis duobus basim versus nigris. Exp. al. 74 
lin. 
Head white; in the middle black. Face white. Palpi dark grey ; 
terminal joint black. Antenne dark fuscous. Anterior wings rather 
broad, white, with deep black spots and markings; at the base of the 
costa is an oblong spot, and short streak immediately beyond it on the 
costa; beyond is an irregular-shaped costal blotch (leaving only a trian- 
gular white spot on the costa beyond the middle), which projects to- 
wards the base and towards the inner margin, and generally unites with 
the black apical portion of the wing; in the latter, towards the hinder 
margin, are a few whitish scales; towards the base, near the inner 
margin, are two round black spots obliquely placed ; cilia dark grey, 
with the tips whitish. Posterior wings dark fuscous; towards the 
inner margin whitish, with paler cilia. 
Long doubted as a British species ; recently taken in tolerable 
plenty in the Cambridgeshire fens in June. 
4. decemguttella, Hiib. Tin. 303 (1816); Treit.; Frey.; Dup.; 
Zell.—dodecea, Haw.; Step. Alis anticis albis grisescente-suffusis, 
punctis undecim magnis irregularibus atris. Exp. al. 10 lin. 
Head and face white. Palpi black; internally whitish; terminal 
joint whitish, with a black ring at the base and another towards the 
apex. Antenne dark fuscous. Anterior wings white, with a slight 
greyish tint, with eleven rather large dark black spots, viz. two small at 
the base, one on the subcostal vein, and one on the fold; nearly fol- 
lowing the line of the fold are four others, the first in the fold not far 
from the base, the second a little below the fold, the third is larger, 
and lies in the fold about the middle of the wing, the fourth and largest 
is above the fold towards the anal angle; on the dise before the middle 
are two spots, the anterior nearer to the costa; in a line with the lower 
one on the disc are two others, one beyond the middle, the other to- 
wards the hinder margin, and near the costa, nearly between these two, 
is another spot; cilia whitish. Posterior wings dark greyish-fuscous, 
with paler cilia. 
Not common; the perfect insect appears in May and June, 
sitting on the tops of the flowers of the J2thospermum (according 
to the interesting account of its habits given by Mr. Harding, in 
the ‘Zoologist’ for 1848, p. 2332). The larva feeds on that 
plant in September and October. 
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