30 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Its home appears to be in the South of Europe, but Her- 

 rich-Schaffer states that it occurs on the Rhine; and from 

 Pierret's observations, it is sometimes found in the neighbour- 

 hood of Paris, frequenting dry places the middle of June, 

 and reposing on TJmoelliferce. 



The food of the larva is unknown. 



Phlogophora empyrea, Hiibner. (Frontispiece, Fig. 2.) 



A very distinct species — with very little resemblance to 

 any other Noctua* with which lam acquainted. The pale 

 ochreous reniform stigma, with a pointed projection from its 

 lower half towards the base, standing out conspicuously on 

 the purplish brown anterior wings, and the pale inner 

 margin of the latter, furnish characters by which the insect 

 may be immediately recognised. 



Treitschke gives Italy as the fatherland of this very rare 

 species ; Duponchel announces its capture in the South of 

 France ; Guenee adds to these localities central France ; the 

 latter Entomologist has frequently bred the insect, which 

 always appears between the middle of September and be- 

 ginning of October. The larva is polyphagous, feeding on 

 various low plants. 



Mr. Winter has this year met with this species at Brighton ; 

 a locality of considerable Entomological importance, as in 

 the neighbourhood of Brighton and Lewes more species of 

 our Butterflies occur than in other localities. A few years 

 ago Chcerocampa Nerii, a truly Italian species, was also 

 taken here, and Glcea erythrocephala, taken near Brighton, 

 still remains unique in Mr. H. Cooke's collection. 



Of Phlogophora empyrea several specimens were taken 

 at sugar, by Mr. Winter and Mr. Eagles. The wings when 

 in repose are not folded as in P. meticulosa. 



* Unless it be a large Euplexia lucipara. 



