characterized species of British Moths. 115 
size of P. fusca, Haw., but of a pale mouse-colour with a slight 
ochreous tinge, and the upper wings are narrower with a pale 
irregular transverse line, a little more than one-third from the 
base, but it does not seem to reach the costa, and there is an in- 
distinct blackish dot on the dise : the under-wings are pale smoky 
with a nacreous silky surface : the antennze are very slender and 
apparently simple, but it is avery old and imperfect male which 
I took when residing in Norfolk. . 
24. Genus 994, 6. Eudorea Portlandica, a name given to this 
moth by Mr. Dale, from his finding it only in the Isle of Port- 
land. It seems to me to be the E. pheoluca, described and figured 
im the Linn. Entom. vol. i. p. 806. No. 15. fig. 18. 
25. 6%. E. concinnella, Curt. Cab., expands 7 lines, being 
much smaller than . Mercurella, Linn., which it most resem- 
bles: it is however entirely of a dark brown ; nearly one-third 
from the base of the upper wings is a curved whitish striga, and 
intermediate between it and the shoulder is another ; on the dise 
is an indistinct black Q, beyond it an oblique white line, sud- 
denly curved near the costa; a line of black dots at the base of 
the cilia, forming a little black spot near the middle, surrounded 
by gray scales, extending irregularly along the posterior margin : 
under-wings pale brown, whitish at the base. 
I cannot remember where I took this distinct and unique spe- 
cimen, unless it was at Bournemouth. 
26. 8. E. lineola, Curt. Brit. Ent. fol. 170. It expands 8 lines, 
is white, head, palpi and thorax grisly ; abdomen fuscous, edges 
of segments white: superior wings rather narrow, clouded with 
brown; the base is brown with an oblique black and white costal 
stripe, reaching only half across and forming on the costa, with 
the next, a white patch ; this second line is white, very tortuous 
and margined with black externally ; to the centre loop is attached 
a black oval spot ; above it, but nearer the middle, 1s a small white 
dot in a black ring, and beyond it a black Q, white in the 
centre ; towards the hinder margin is an oblique sinuose white 
striga with a large curve, filled internally by a brown patch, and 
externally at the costa and opposite extremity are two other 
brown patches, the latter with a black arrow-head ; these leave a 
semi-oval white space on the hinder margin, at the centre of which 
is a small brown spot bearing black pointed dots extending along 
the cilia, which is spotted black: under-wings fuscous-white, 
with a transverse pale sinuated line nearly parallel to the mar- 
gin, as noticed in ‘ Brit. Ent’—Wood’s fig. 1446 is not good. 
27. 9. E. Resinea, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 499. Mr. Stephens 
having described this species under the above title in 1884, I 
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