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It feeds on various low plants. 



The chrysalis is found under the ground. 



1 beg leave here to thank the Rev. Edward Horton, 

 of Wick, near Worcester, an "old Bromsgrovian" school- 

 fellow, for useful information. 



NOCTUA SOBRINA. 

 Plate LVI. Figure 4. 



Localities for this species are at Rannock, in Perthshire. 



The perfect insect appears in July. 



The caterpillar is blue grey, marbled with yellowish 

 white, with a dull yellowish line along the back, and 

 another interrupted one of the same colour below it on 

 the sides; the side line pale greyish, edged on its upper 

 margin with darker. 



The chrysalis is subterranean. 



NOCTUA NEGLECT A. 



NEGLECTED RUSTIC. 



Plate LVI. Figure 5. 



Localities for this species are York, Stockton Forest, 

 Hale near Liverpool, The New Forest, Birch Wood, West 

 Wickham Wood, Lyndhurst, Pembury, Weybridge, Black 

 Park, Ticehurst, Plymouth, and Carlisle. 



The situations where it is found are heaths and heathy 

 places in woods. 



The perfect insect appears in August. 



