82 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



THE MARBLED CLOVER MOTH. HELIOTHIS DIPSACEA, 



Noctua dipsacea, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. xii.), i. (2), p. 856, 



no. 185 (1767); Esper, Schmett. iv. (2), pp. 21, 641, Taf. 



172, figs. 1-3, Taf. 185, figs. 1-6 (1797?); Hiibner, Eur. 



Schmett. iv. fig. 311 (1799?). 

 Heliothis dipsacea, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (3), p. 220 



(1826) ; Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 109 (1830); 



Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths, p. 255, pi. 39, fig. 7 



(1881) ; Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. vi. p. 75, pi. 99, 



figs- 3-3^(1895). 



The Marbled Clover Moth. 



The Marbled Clover is a common Moth in most parts of 

 Europe and Northern Africa, as well as in Northern and 

 Western Asia. It expands about an inch and a quarter. 



The ground-colour of the fore-wings is usually pale greenish- 

 yellow, but specimens in which the green predominates, or 

 which are rusty yellow, with the markings suffused, are by 

 no means unfrequently met with. The head and thorax are 

 generally greenish-yellow, the former being a little darker, 

 while the abdomen is greyish-yellow, almost white beneath, 

 with some ferruginous hairs in the anal tuft. The antennae 

 are rusty brown, and the legs white, suffused with brown. 



In distinctly marked specimens both the half-line and the 

 first transverse line are brown or black. A broad dark central 

 band crosses the wings over the reniform stigma, which is dark 



