1. N. Hemerobia Hub. pi. 11. f. 65. 



Smaller than the following: subdiaphanous, slightly 

 iridescent, and tinged with ochre, without any spots. 

 I suspect Hlibner's species is distinct, for I bred two females 

 perfectly agreeing with his figure, not having a vestige of spot 

 or marking on the wings. The specimens generally placed in 

 cabinets, as the N. Hemerobia, appear to me to be nothing 

 more than rubbed examples of N. mundana. These I have 

 taken in the Isle of Wight the beginning of August, but the 

 females above alluded to I bred the 28th June, from caterpil- 

 lars that I had found only a short time before on a wall near 

 Ambleside. I have seen a Trichopterous insect (probably the 

 Ace?itria nivosa Ste. Gen. 762. of my Guide) which bears a 

 striking resemblance to the female of this species. 



2. N. mundana Linn. — Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 400. 



Subdiaphanous and iridescent, pale rosy-ochre: su- 

 perior wings with a short brown streak at the base, an 

 angulated brown striga before, and another beyond the 

 middle, with a dot between them and a cloud of the 

 same colour, but lighter, parallel to the posterior 

 margin. 

 I am not aware that this pretty, but common, moth has been 

 figured in any English work, neither have I met anywhere 

 with representations of the caterpillar and pupa, for the 

 drawings of which I am indebted to a lady who reared the 

 moth from them. The larva feeds on the Byssus botryoides, 

 which grows on the bark of trees. The moth is found from 

 the end of June to the beginning of August. 



3. N. senex Hub. pi. 55. f. 236 *$■ 2S1.—Ste. pi. 18. / 2.— 



Pagana Knock. — rotunda Hatv. 



Wings shorter ; superior, scarcely larger than the in- 

 ferior. Antennae of the male with the joints producing 

 a bristle on each side : dull ochreous, superior wings 

 with a brown spot at the base, 3 others in a curved 

 line near it, a faint abbreviated striga near the middle, 

 Avith a dark spot upon it, an irregular line of dots pa- 

 rallel to the posterior margin, the apex fuscous, cilia 

 spotted with brown : inferior wings with a fuscous lu- 

 nular spot approaching the costal margin and a faint 

 transverse line below it. 

 This rare moth was first detected in Battersea Fields, and 

 afterwards at Whittlesea Mere, where I took specimens the 

 21st July in the evening, alighting on the heads of grass in 

 the marshes. 



The Plant is Eupatorium caujiabiiium, var. (3, (Hemp Agri- 

 mony). 



