DESCKIPTIVE NOTICES OF CONSPICUOUS SPECIES 201 



The perfect insect appears in June, and may be 

 obtained flying after dusk ; it comes readily to sugar. 



FAMILY X. HADENLD^E. 



HADENA REGTILINEA. THE CLOUDED 

 BEOCADE. 



(Plate VIII., Fig. 5.) 



This handsome Noctua is not rare in the neighbour- 

 hoods of Sheffield and Huddersfield, and occurs in 

 various localities in Scotland ; in Ireland it occurs near 

 Killarney. 



The expansion of the wings is about 1J inch. The 

 fore -wings are pale grey, with a very broad, dark, 

 reddish-brown band in the middle, and a smaller dark 

 reddish blotch near the base towards the inner margin ; 

 the form of the orbicular stigma is unusual, instead of 

 being really orbicular it is narrow and elongate ; at the 

 outer edge of the broad dark band is a whitish streak 

 near the anal angle. 



The larva is velvety-looking, rich brown on the back, 

 with paler wedge-shaped marks on each side ; the 

 twelfth segment is slightly humped. It feeds on sallow, 

 bilberry, etc., in September and October. 



The perfect insect appears in June, and comes freely 

 to sugar in the localities where it occurs. 



FAMILY XI. XYLINIM;. 



CALOCAMPA VETUSTA. THE KED SWOED 

 GEASS. 



This fine species seems very widely distributed 



