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of Respersa, but the wings are narrower. Fore-wings rosy-grey, tinged with yellow, but very 

 variable. Sometimes they are crossed by slender brown denticulated lines, resembling those 

 of Agrotis Latcns ; sometimes no markings are visible except the narrow brown reniform 

 stigma, with its white centre, and three brown dots on the pale costa, corresponding to the 

 ordinary lines. The orbicular stigma is reduced to a mere dot ; and there is usually a 

 submarginal row of brown spots. Hind-wings white, darkest towards the hind margins. 

 Fringes broad, silky-white. It expands \\ inches. 



9. C. Respersa (W. V.). — Fore-wings pale ashy-grey, the oblique lines black and well 

 marked, the elbowed line strongly dentated, the stigmata rather small and indistinct, scarcely 

 bordered with paler, the subterminal line narrowly bordered with dusky in front ; hind-wings 

 brownish, paler at the base. Expands from i to \\ inches. Inhabits Central and Southern 

 Europe in June and July, but scarce and local, and absent in the north-west. Larva dark 

 brown, with a paler stripe on the back, edged with whitish lines. It is finely suffused with 

 blackish, and there are two white spots on each segment. It lives on grass, &c., in dry 

 meadows, and hybernates under stones. (C Aspersa, Ramb., a rare species, found in South 

 France in July, has reddish-grey fore-wings, dusted with brownish, with four indistinct waved 

 and dentated lines ; the reniform stigma is crescent-shaped and blackish, and the orbicular 

 stigma is scarcely visible ; hind-wings whitish, with the hind margin brown.) 



* 10. C. Alsines (Brahm).— Fore-wings broad, yellowish copper-brown, with large dark 

 stigmata surrounded with whitish, and a whitish subterminal line narrowly edged with duSky 

 in front ; hind-wings grey, paler at the base in the male. Expands about i \ inches. Common 

 in Central and Northern Europe and Northern Asia in June and July. The larva is thick, 

 clay-coloured, and the back is pale reddish-grey, with three fine whitish lines bordered with 

 dusky. It feeds on low plants till May. 



II. C. Sericea (Speyer). — Fore-wings yellowish -grey, very shining, and much narrower than 

 in Alsines; the stigmata narrowly bordered with paler; hind-wings iridescent greyish-white. 

 A scarce species, found in Holland and North Germany in July. 



* \2. C. Tamxaci (Hiibn.), Blauda (Tr.). — Very near Alsines, fore-wings with the same 

 markings, but paler ; pale chocolate-brown, slightly suffused with violet-grey ; hind-wings dirty 

 white, and with the hind margin dusted with brownish. Expands \\ inches. Common 

 throughout Central Europe and Western Asia in June and July. The larva is dark grey, 

 with three fine whitish lines on the back and a light stripe on the sides. 



13. C. Siiperstcs (Ochs.). — Also like Alsines, but the thorax and fore-wings are ashy-grey, 

 thickly and finely dusted with black ; fore-wings reddish between the nervules on the hind 

 margin beyond the subterminal line ; hind-wings white, suffused with brownish-black on the 

 hind margin. A rather scarce species, inhabiting the mountains of Southern Europe and 

 Nassau. The lar\'a is grey, with a darker line on the back, a pale stripe on the sides, 

 and oblique dashes between them. 



14. C. Gilva (Donz.). — Fore-wings ashy, varied with whitish on the first half of the 

 wing, with the three lines darker, waved, and rather indistinct, the subterminal line varied 

 with whitish. The stigmata are absent, the reniform stigma being replaced by a group of 

 brown dots. Hind-wings white, the hind margin broadly washed with pale ashy. Expands 

 i^ inches. A rare species, inhabiting the mountains of South Europe in July, and classed 

 as an Agrotis by some writers. 



15. C. Ambig2ia (W. V.), Plautaginis (Hiibn.). — Differs from Superstes by the narrower 

 yellowish-grey fore-wings ; hind-wings white, only slightly suffused with brownish on the 



