336 LEPIDOPTERA. 



specimen appears to have been taken in Lancashire, has been 

 recorded, in error, under the name of L. NickerUi. 

 On the wing in August and September. 



Larva rather thick and stumpy in repose, cylindrical, yet 

 tapering a little in front and behind ; head rounded, lobes 

 well defined, between them is a point on the crown ; legs 

 placed well beneath the body ; without any trace of the usual 

 raised dots, though with a strong lens the minute hairs are 

 seen to spring from the situations in which such dots would 

 be placed in most Noctua larvte ; anal plate rounded off rather 

 abruptly behind, divided into three ridges, and rather concave, 

 contrasting with the convex surface of the other segments ; 

 these are transversely divided by deep wrinkles into prominent 

 ridges, most pronounced on the twelfth and front portion of 

 the thirteenth segment ; skin minutely wrinkled, yet glisten- 

 ing ; head glossy, light brownish-yellow, mouth dark brown ; 

 dorsal plate rather paler and shining ; body generally flesh- 

 colour, often of a livid tint ; the ridges of the back and sides 

 with more colour than the deep hollow wrinkles, which are of 

 a paler, purer flesh-colour; the back of the two hindmost 

 segments is darker, especially on the ridges, culminating in 

 rather dark brown on the front portion of the anal plate ; 

 spiracles deep pink, strongly outlined with black. When 

 younger more pinkish-grey. (Adapted from Buckler.) 



Probably from October (but the time at which the eggs 

 hatch is not certainly known to me) till June or July ; on 

 Poa annua and other grasses, feeding at, and just above, the 

 roots, in the grass-tufts; concealing itself almost always 

 underground. 



Pupa | inch long, of moderate bulk, very uniform in thick- 

 ness, tapering but little till near the tip, which is furnished 

 with two slightly divergent fine points curved downward ; 

 colour light brown. (W. Buckler.) The whole surface is 

 smooth and glossy, and almost without sculpture, except a 

 band of minute and abundant punctures round the front 



