My first Green-brindled Crescents of the year, both form capucina. One of them (but not the other) had a phenomenon which I hadn't previously noticed: a greenish tinge to the light markings on its otherwise variously brown wings (clear to the naked eye and not an iPhone digital quirk). Perhaps this helped to inspire the name Ealing's Glory given to the moth by Charles Lockyer, the MP and secretary to the notorious South Sea Company whose insect collection included the first-recorded Clifden Nonpareil (see thread of comments on Martin Albertini's post, below). Martin Wainwright, Thrupp, Oxon.
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