NOCTUIDjE. — GRAPHIPHORA. 137 



Pi. No. plecta. Linne. — Gr. plecta. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 70. No. 6126. 



A small though beautiful species : head and thorax purplish- or reddish-brown, 

 the latter with a black transverse streak in front : anterior wings light dusky- 

 purple, with the costa pale ochraceous white, from the base nearly to the 

 middle, with a black streak at the base, and another in the middle of the 

 wing, nearly united to the former, and traversing, as it were, the stigmata, 

 the anterior of which is well defined, circular, and white, with its centre 

 dusky; the posterior rather small, heart-shaped, cinereous, with a whitish 

 border : near the hinder margin is an obscure undulated streak, the margin 

 itself has a row of minute black dots ; the fringe is purplish-brown : abdomen 

 cinereous, with the apex rufescent ; posterior wings whitish, with the fringe 

 ochraceous. 



Var. i3. The anterior wings without the pale costal spot. 



Caterpillar green, with a brown head ; it feeds on various plants, and is found 

 in May and August ; the imago appearing in June and September. 



A beautiful and not uncommon insect, frequenting hedges and 

 lanes in woody situations, throughout the metropolitan district. 

 " Common at Kimpton and Amesbury." — Rev. G. T. Rudd. 

 « Epping."— Mr. H. DouUeday. 



Sp. 20. albimacula. Plate 19. f. 3. Alis anticis fusco-brunneis purpurea 

 variegatis, vittd costali pallida, lineold basi atrd, plagd elongatd centrali fusco' 

 nigrd, in qua macula rotundata alba. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 7 lin.) 



Gr. ? albimacula mihi. — Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 18. No. 6125. 



AntenniE griseous : head cinereous, with two black spots on the crown : thorax 

 griseous-ash, transversely streaked anteriorly with black and white : anterior 

 wings shining fuscous brown, beautifully shaded with rich purple, with a pale 

 reddish patch at the base, towards the costa ; a black streak at the base, with 

 a subocellated purplish spot, between its tip and the inner margin, having an 

 ovate black stigmatiform mark adjoining, placed as in most of the Agrotes ; 

 on the disc is an elongate fuscous black patch, acute anteriorly, and truncate 

 posteriorly: in this the anterior stigma, which is round and white, is placed, 

 and the posterior one at the hinder extremity ; the ordinary strigse are rather 

 obsolete ; but in the place of the usual hinder one is a series of fuscous dots, 

 united by an interrupted black longitudinal streak to the reniform stigma : 

 the posterior wings dusky-ash, and glossy, with a faint transverse striga, and 

 darker border. 



With the location of this remarkably conspicuous species I am not satisfied : 

 it differs in many respects from the rest of the genus, especially in the ro- 

 tundity of the base of its somewhat reticulated anterior wings ,the internally 

 serrated and ciliated antennae of the male, and m its autumnal flight : in 

 many respects it resembles the species of the genus Agrotis. 



The specimen whence the accompanying figure was designed 

 was captured in September, 1824, at Whittiesea-mere ; since which 



