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of which is a white mark shaped like a Y or the Greek letter 

 Gamma. 



Plusia Chrysitis (the Burnished Brass Moth) flies in the 

 evening. It is about the same size as the Gamma Moth, but the 

 fore wings are nearly covered by two large brassy-green blotches, 

 which are generally connected. 



Monno Maura (the Old Lady), belonging to the family 



Old Lady (Monuo Maura). 



Toxocampid(Z> is a large dark-brown moth, which is common in 

 gardens in the evening, and often flies into houses when the 

 windows are open. 



The Red Underwing (Catocala Nupta), belonging to the 

 family Catocalidce, measures about three inches across the fore 

 wings, which are varied with grey. The hind wings are red, 

 with a black border and a black band across the middle. It 

 may often be found sitting on the trunks of trees in the daytime, 

 to which the colour of its fore wings assimilates it, its red hind 

 wings being covered over, and invisible. It has then a triangular 

 form, which is still more noticeable in the Deltoida, which differ 

 from the other Noctua by their slender bodies, and by the palpi 

 (two organs projecting from the head between the antennae) 

 being so much developed as to resemble a kind of beak. The 

 commonest species is the Snout (Hypzna Proboscidalis], which 

 is found among nettles ; it measures an inch and a half across 

 the fore wings, which are brown, with two darker stripes. In 



