OcHSENHEiMER has placed Anarta next to Pltcsia, but we are 

 not prepared to say wliether tliat is its natural situation : the 

 nearly obsolete joint of the palpi and very long basal joint of 

 the posterior tarsi are diifei-ent to any of the genera we have 

 liitherto figured. 



Three species only of this pretty genus have been discovered 

 in Britain, although eight are known upon the Continent. 

 They are day fliers, and love the sunshine. 



1. A. Myrtilli. 



The caterpillars are found from the end of July to October, 

 feeding upon the heath that accompanies the figure, in Kent, 

 Hants, and Devon. The imago is seen flying about heaths 

 from the beginning of June to the end of August : from its 

 swift and irregular flight it resembles Plusia, and is difficult 

 to take unless it be hovering over a flower. Mr. Joseph 

 Standish having had one live through the winter in the 

 chrysalis state which came out the June following, he thinks 

 there are not two broods in a year as is generally believed. 



2. A. Cordigera TJiunh. Esp. — albirena Hiib., Haiso. 163. 10. 

 This insect was taken in Norfolk in June by the late Mr. 



Burrell, and is preserved in the cabinet of A. H. Haworth, Esq.; 

 and had it not appeared to us to be merely a variety having 

 the prevailing colour of the wings fuscous uistead of crimson 

 ferruginous, we should have given the preference to it for an 

 example of the genus : perhaps the larvae may throw some 

 light upon the subject, for that figured by Mr. Donovan 

 (vol. 7. pi. 221) is very different in markings to ours, which 

 was in its last skin at the time it was drawn. 



3. A. Arbuti Fah., Don. Brit. Ins. 10. 343. 3. — fasciola Esp. 

 — Helioca Huh. 



The end of May and beginning of June this pretty little 

 noctua is seen flying in meadows and even by the road side in 

 grassy places. 



The plant is Calluna vulgaris^ Erica vulgaris Linn., (Com- 

 mon Ling). 



