NOCTtfAS. 



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504. The Small Clouded Brindle (Apamet 

 unanimis). 



504. THE SMALL CLOUDED BRINDLE. The 

 palpi are porrected and conspicuous, the 

 second joint densely clothed with scales, the 

 apical joint rather long and naked ; the 

 antennae are simple and slender ; the colour of 

 the wings is umber-brown, marbled with a few 

 waved transverse lines of darker brown and a 

 few pale bent lines exterior to the reniform ; the 

 orbicular is rather oblique, and very difficult 

 to make out ; the reniform very clearly de- 

 fined, and having a white circumscription, 

 which is particularly conspicuous on its outer 

 border ; the hind wings are gray-brown, paler 

 at the base, and having a distinct crescentic 

 discoidal spot : the head and thorax have ex- 

 actly the colours of the fore wings ; the body 

 that of the hind wings. 



The CATERPILLAR of this moth is unknown 

 to me. Mr. Stainton gives Freyer as his 

 authority for the following description : 

 " Dull gi'ay ; white dorsal line ; a row of black 

 dots between it and the whitish sub-dorsal 

 line ; spiracular line whitish. Feeds on grass." 

 (titaintoris Manual, vol. i. p. 211.) 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 lias been taken in Devonsnire, Somersetshire, 

 Sussex, Surrey, Essex, and occasionally in more 

 northern counties, extending even into Scot- 

 land ; and Mr. Birchall has taken it in the 

 counties of Dublin and Wicklow, in Ireland. 

 (The scientific name is Apamea unanimis.} 



Obs. It must be admitted that this 

 insect very closely resembles the preceding. 

 It may, however, be distinguished by its larger 

 size, and much greater constancy of colour- 

 leg. 



505. The Double-lobed (Apamea ophiogramma). 



505. THE DOUBLE-LOBED. The palpi 

 rather long and porrected, slender at the 

 base, then swollen, and again slender and 

 naked at the tip ; the antennae are slender 

 and simple : the fore wings are dark brown 

 on the costa ; this colour descends in a kind 

 of festoon below the middle of the wing, and 

 enclosing both the discoidal spote, which are 

 rather obscurely indicated, again ascends, ter- 

 minating in a point on the costa very near 

 the tip of the wing : below this large dark 

 area the inner-marginal area is pale gray : 

 there is a brown shade about the middle of 

 the hind margin, and a brown dash at the 

 anal angle, which approaches the inferior bor- 

 der of the dark brown area first described : 

 ttte hind wings are dingy gray-brown, as well 

 as the head, thorax, and body. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in June, in 

 the gardens of Kent and Surrey, Essex and 

 Middlesex, in the immediate neighbourhood of 

 London. Mr. Douglas Robinson informs me 

 that it has been taken in Kirkcudbrightshire ; 

 and Mr. Birchall says that there is one speci- 

 men in the collection of Trinity College, 

 Dublin, captured by Mr. Tardy. (The scientific 

 name is Apamea ophiogramma. ) 



Obs. In this, as in many other instances, 

 the number and perseverance of entomologists 

 resident in London has given to this species 

 the reputation of being a London insect par ex- 

 cellence, a reputation which will, in all proba- 

 bility, be shaken as entomologists increase 

 in number at a distance from the metropolis : 

 in London, supposing the number of indus- 

 trious entomologists only keeps pace with 

 the population, our records ought to exceed 

 tenfold that of any other city in the empire. 



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