62 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE MARBLED CLOVER MOTH. HELIOTHIS DirSACEA. 



Noctiia dipsacea, Linnasus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2), p. 856) 



no. 185 (1767) ; Esper, Schmett. iv. (2), pp. 21, 641, Taf. 



172, figs. 1-3, Taf. 185, figs. 1-6 (1797?); Hiibner, Eur. 



Schmett. iv. fig. 311 (1799?). 

 Heliothis dipsacca, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (3), p. 220 



(1826) ; Stephens, III. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 109 (1830); 



Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 255, pi. 39, fig. 7 



(1881) ; Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. vi. p. 75, pi. 99, 



figs- 3-3 e (1895). 



The Marbled Clover Moth. 



The Marbled Clover is a common Moth in most parts of 

 Europe and Northern Africa, as well as in Northern and 

 Western Asia. It expands about an inch and a quarter. 



The ground-colour of the fore wings is usually pale greenish 

 yellow, but specimens in which the green predominates, or 

 which are rusty yellow, with the markings suffused, are by 

 no means unfrequently met with. The head and thorax are 

 generally greenish-yellow, the former being a little darker, 

 while the abdomen is greyish-yellow, almost white beneath, 

 with some ferruginous hairs in the anal tuft. The antennae 

 are rusty brown, and the legs white, suffused with brown. 



In distinctly marked specimens both the half-line and the 

 first transverse line are brown or black. A broad dark central 

 band crosses the wings over the reniform stigma, which is dark 



