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(1907). In Scotland it occurs on the east coast, and in the 

 Orkney Isles ; also in Ayr, on the south-west. In Ireland, 

 also, it is found on suitable parts of the coast. 



The Heart and Club (Agrofis {Enxod) corticed). 



The more usual form of the male and the female are shown 

 on Plate 105 (Figs. 7 5 , 8 $ )• The colour varies from pale 

 brown to a whitish or greyish brown tint in one direction, and 

 to reddish or blackish brown in another. The cross lines, 

 generally well defined, are sometimes absent, or nearly so, in 

 some of the pale forms, and much obscured in the dark forms. 

 The black outlined reniform and orbicular stigmata are some- 

 times obscured by a blackish cloud ; the pale-centred, club-like 

 mark below them varies in length, and is occasionally reduced 

 to a small spot. ^'' Nociua subfusca^^ Haworth, has been deter- 

 mined by Mr. E. R. Bankes, who possesses the type, to be an 

 obscurely marked fuscous J example of this species. The 

 greyish brown, rather rough-looking caterpillar, is freckled with 

 a darker tint above, and inchned to greenish below ; a fine, 

 pale line along the middle of the back is edged with brownish, 

 and on each side there is a pale line, edged above with brown, 

 and below this a double pale line ; head marked with blackish 

 '(Plate 109, Fig. i). It feeds from March to April, after 

 hibernation, on \arious low-growing plants, including goose- 

 foot {CJieiiop(nUu))i)^ persicaria, knotgrass, dock, and clover. 

 The moth is on the wing in June and July, and very 

 occasionally in September. It is rather a common insect in 

 eastern and southern counties bordering the sea, but extends 

 into Surrey, and occasionally into Cambridgeshire, Oxford- 

 shire, and Berkshire ; and is also found more or less frequently 

 in Herefordshire, Warwickshire, Staffordshire, Cheshire, Lan- 

 cashire, and Yorkshire. In Scotland it occurs in Ayr, and on 

 the eastern side to Moray. It has been taken in various 



