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THE MOTHS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



The Red Underwing {Catocala miptd). 



Both sexes of this species are shown on Plate 31, Figs. 2 and 3. 

 The fore wings are darker in some specimens than in others, 

 and very rarely, in connection with a change in the hind wings 

 from red to brownish, there has been a purplish tinge over all 



Fig. 3. 



Red Underwing- at rest. 



Photo by H. Main. 



the wings. Specimens with the hind wings of a brown tint 

 have onl} so far been noted in the environs of London. In 

 1892 one was taken at 'Mitcham (warm brown), another at 

 Wandsworth, 1895, a third at Chingford, 1896 (dusky black- 

 brown), and a fourth at Brondesbury in 1897 At a meeting of 



