462 Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., ow 



oblique from costa to reniform and inwardly oblique from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin; postmedial line blackish, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then obsolescent, dentate and produced to short 

 black streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, obsolescent towards costa and dentate to 

 termen at veins 4'3, some dark suffusion before it ; cilia pink with 

 slight whitish line at middle and whitish tips. Hind-wing ochreous 

 white with a slight fuscous tinge at upper angle of cell, short post- 

 medial black streaks on veins 7 to 2, and a fuscous tinge on sub- 

 terminal area between veins 4 and 2 ; cilia tinged with reddish 

 ochreous except at tips. Underside of both wings ochreovis white, 

 the costal and terminal areas strongly tinged with fiesh-j)ink, a 

 postmedial series of short black streaks on the veins. 



Hal). Scotland, Aberdeen {L. G. Esson), 1 $ type. Exp. 

 40 mill. vii. 



The unique female was taken at sugar in July of this 

 year on the trunk of a pine in a pine-wood eight miles 

 from Aberdeen by Mr. L. G. Esson, a most energetic and 

 careful naturalist, who is to be much congratulated on his 

 interesting discovery, and who, it is to be hoped, will next 

 year turn up other specimens of this fine addition to the 

 British fauna. The specimen is obviously only just emerged 

 from the pupa, and its coloration irresistibly suggests 

 that it habitually rests on the trunks of pine-trees. It 

 belongs to the Hadeninac, the hairy-eyed subfamily of the 

 Noctnae trifinae, and is a development from Fcrigrapha 

 and Monima {Tacniocampa), differing from both in having 

 a dorsal series of abdominal crests and from the latter in 

 having a sharp triangular pro-thoracic crest ; from Miselia 

 (Mamestra) it differs in having the sharp triangular pro- 

 thoracic crest and its hairy scaling ; in coloration it some- 

 what reminds one of Panolis fiammea. Apart from its 

 structure there does not seem to be any British species 

 of which it could possibly be an aberration, whilst the 

 specimen itself has no appearance of abnormality. The 

 suggestion that it is a hybrid between two genera, of 

 which Miselia would be one and some form with sharp 

 pro-thoracic crest and hairy scaling the other parent 

 appears to me much more improbable than that a new 

 British Noctua should be discovered, and I conclude that the 

 species is either indigenous or perhaps imported, probably 

 in the egg stage on some exotic conifer ; I have, however, 

 failed to find any described species from any part of the 



