NOCTUAS. 



the extremity, and the yellow even here is 

 generally mixed with gray. The female espe- 

 cially has scarcely any yellow at the anus ; it 

 is of the size of the male, or smaller. This 

 species may be still more readily distinguished 

 from L. plumbeola by the form of the wings, 

 which altogether resemble those of L. com- 

 plana; the gray is equally shining, the costal 

 band straighter and more distinct, the cilia 

 tinged with gray, the neck unicolorous, the 

 hind wings lead-coloured, but especially by 

 the presence of the scaly fold of the costa of 

 the fore wings." Guenee in Zool. for 1863. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 has only been observed in Cheshire and Lanca- 

 shire. It inhabits low and marshy places, 

 and its CATERPILLAR in all probability feeds on 

 the lichens which grow on the tfei-r^ c!' th^ 

 heath, or which carpet the stones that are 

 scattered over the surface of the ground. (The 

 scientific name is Lithosia molybdeola.) 



438*. The White-point (Leucania Albipuncta). 



438*. THE WHITE-POINT. The palpi are 

 slighty porrected and very inconspicuous, the 

 minute terminal joint scarcely extending be- 

 yond the second joint ; the antennae are almost 

 simple in both sexes ; the fore wings are 

 nearly straight on the costa and obtuse, but 

 not rounded at the tip ; their colour is brick- 

 dust red, with a perfectly white spot at the 

 lower exti-emity of the reniform, which 

 would otherwise escape notice. This species 

 closely resembles Leucania lithargyria, but 

 Gueuee thus differentiates them : Lithar- 

 gyria, confounded by many authors with 

 Albipuncta, is distinguished from that species 

 by its larger size, by the fore wings being less 

 ferruginous, by the white spot amalgamating 

 with a pale lunule situated above it, and, thus 



united, constituting the reniform, by the 

 elbowed line being less conspicuous, and 011 

 the other hand by the transverse series of dots 

 being much more so. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in August. 

 A single specimen, captured at Folkestone on 

 the 15th of that month, at sugar, by Mr. 

 Briggs, was exhibited at the meeting of the 

 Entomological Society on the 2nd of Novem- 

 ber: a second specimen, much worn, was 

 taken in the second week in October, within 

 five yards of the same place. Mr. Allis has 

 . third specimen, which he obtained from one 

 of the Yaxley collectors. (The scientific 

 name is Leucania Albipuncta.) 



613*. The Viper's Bngloss (Dianthcecia Echii). 



613*. THE VIPER'S BUGLOSS. The palpi 

 are slightly porrected, the terminal joint very 

 small, and appearing as a little button amidst 

 the scales of the second ; the antennae are 

 nearly simple in both sexes ; the fore wings 

 are nearly straight on the costa, rounded at 

 the tip, and perfectly simple on the hind 

 margin ; their colour is ochreous, beautifully 

 marked and marbled with darker and lighter 

 colours, some of the darker approaching 

 umber-brown, some of the latter being almost 

 white; the orbicular spot is well defined, 

 white, with a slight central ochreous shade ; 

 the reniform is less perfect, its median area of 

 a darker tint ; there is a short transverse dark 

 mark near the base, a waved dark line before 

 the orbicular, a bent and zigzag dark line 

 beyond the reniform, and finally a compound 

 and zigzag transverse line parallel with the 

 hind margin ; the inner portion of this last is 

 dark, the other white ; the hind margin itself 

 is occupied by a delicate fawn-coloured band ; 

 the fringe is brown, interrupted with seven 

 white streaks ; there are moreover four pair 

 undefined clouds, the first near the base of the 



