194 HAUSTELLATA. LlCPIDOl'TERA. 



strigae, and a more distinct slender triangulated one tOAvards the posterior 

 margin: on the cosla are several whitish spots, of which the one opposite to 

 the posterior stigma is largest, and adjoins a dusky one: the stigmata are 

 rather obscure, a little paler than the wings, and faintly edged with dusky, 

 and the posterior one with two whitish spots on its hinder edge; on the 

 margin are some indistinct dusky lunate spots: the posterior wings are 

 ochreous white, with the hinder margin and nervures dusky: abdomen dusky- 

 ash. 



Two examples of this rare species (the figure of which is rather 

 larger than nature) have hitherto come beneath my observation : 

 one was taken in the New Forest, Hants, or rather, I believe, off 

 Christchurch, by Mr. Bentley, in a bathing-machine, towards the 

 end of June, 1819; and at the end of the following week, a second 

 was picked up by a boy at Darenth-wood : since which period no 

 other specimens have occurred to my knowledge. 



Sp. 7. Brassicae. Alts anticis fusco-cinereis nebulosis, stigviatibus duabus nigro- 

 cinctis, renifornii alhicinctd, strigdque posticfi bidentatd albd. (Exp. alar. 

 6—8 Hn.) 



Ph. No. Brassies. Lzttwe.— Ma. Brassicse. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 83. No. 

 6220. Albin. pi. xxviu.f. 42, 43, &c. 



Head and thorax deep fuscous-black, with cinereous atoms: anterior wings 

 ashy-brown, very much clouded with cinereous, with irregular distinct black 

 strigae, and another very much undulated and bidentated white one near the 

 posterior margin, which has a row of dusky or black trigonate spots : the 

 anterior stigma is margined with black; the posterior, or reniform one, more 

 or less margined with white ; and, as in most of the Agrotes, there is a third 

 indicated by a black angulated mark : towards the apex of the costa are four 

 white spots: posterior wings fuscous, with the centre and margin darker; 

 cilia pale with a fuscous line. 



This species varies considerably in colour ; in some examples the cinereous hue 

 predominates, in others the dusky: I possess one example suffused with a 

 rosy tinge, with a distinct ferruginous spot on the inner margin near the 

 base. 



Caterpillar very variable green or brown, with white stigmata and an obscure 

 dorsal line: it feeds chiefly upon the cabbage, and is found in the autumn: 

 the imago occurs in the beginning of summer, and remains for a considerable 

 period. 



One of the most abundant of the indigenous Noctuidse, frequent- 

 ing every garden, and abounding in banks and weedy hedges. 

 " Abundant at Netley." — Rev. F. W. Hope. " Bottisham."— i2^v. 

 L. Jenyns. " Common at Kimpton, and in Yorkshire." — Rev. G. 

 T. Rndd. 



