1. marginata Fai. — Wood, pi. \6.f. ^0S.—Do7i. 5. pi. 150. 1. 



— umbrago Esp. — rutilago Hiib. 

 June 10th, Brighton ; 17th Enborne Berks, and Dover; 

 Caistor and Lowestoft, Mr. Paget; July, Coomb, Birch, and 

 Darent Woods. The Caterpiihir feeds on the Onojiis spinosa 

 and the capsules of Geranmm pratense (pi. 51), in August. 



2. Peltigera Hub. — JVood, pi. IG. f- 409. — straminea Don. 2. 



pi. 61. — florentina £s/J. — Barbara Fab. 



From the middle of June to the 5th of August, York, Man- 

 chester, Birmingham ; in a lane near Tottenham ; also by 

 Ratcliff'e ; Dover and Brighton ; clover fields, Glanville's 

 Wootton, Puddle Hinton and Knowle-hill, Buckland New- 

 ton, Dorset, Mr. Dale, who found them hovering over clover 

 and other flowers in the day time; Breach Wood, near Lang- 

 port, Mr. Paul ; Ashburton, Devon, Mr. Abraham. 



H. armigera, which is closely allied, does great mischief 

 sometimes to the Maize by eating the grain. 



3. Dipsacea TJjin. — Don. 10. pi. 327- 3. — Wood,/. 410. 

 The first Moth I can remember to have taken was a speci- 

 men of H. Dipsacea^ which I caught in a barley field in Nor- 

 folk. Mr. Dale has seen it formerly in plenty on Dudsbury 

 and Parley Heaths, from the middle of July to the end of Au- 

 gust: it flies quick like Anarta Myrtilli (pi. 145) : beginning 

 of June, Denes Caistor, near Yarmouth, Mr. C. J. Paget and 

 Capt. Chawner ; also near Ipswich and Dartford, abundant 

 in a clover field. 



The Caterpillar, according to Treitschke, feeds upon Rumex 

 acutiis, Dipsacus Jullonum, arvensis and pilost/s, Cichoriimi In- 

 tybiis, Ccntaurea nigra, Jacea, Scabiosa and Calcitrapa, Plan- 

 tago major, media, lanceolata, Lijchnis dioica, Cucubalus Behen 

 and baccijerus. 



4. scutosa Hub. — Curt. Brit. But. pi. 595 $ . 



For the loan of this fine addition to our Lepidoptera, ac- 

 companied by the following memorandum, I am indebted to 

 T. C. Heysham, Esq., of Carlisle: "1 have availed myself of 

 the first opportunity to send you the Noctua which I take to 

 be a specimen o^ Heliothis scutosa; it was taken on the banks 

 of the river Caldew, a little below the village of Dalston, in 

 July last. I have also seen a male which was captured in Au- 

 gust 1834, on the coast not far from Skinburness; the spe- 

 cimen, however, was mucii wasted. No other species of the 

 genus has been met with in the vicinity to my knowledge." 



The figures I have seen of this Moth are much lighter than 

 Mr. Heysham's specimen, as is also a male presented to me 

 with several other interesting insects by Dr. Dowler of Rich- 

 mond, who took it, I believe, near Odessa. The Caterpillar 

 feeds on Artemisia campestris, and most likely on other plants 

 of the same genus : the Moth appears in May and June on 

 the Continent, and again in July and August. 



The Plant is Agrimonia Eupatoria (Common Agrimony). 



