NOCTUAS. 



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504. The Small Clouded Brindle (Apamea 



unanimis). 



504. THE SMALL CLOUDED BRINDLE. The 

 pi are porrected and conspicuous, the 

 nd joint densely clothed with scales, the 

 deal joint rather long arid naked ; the 

 tennre are simple and slender ; the colour of 

 e wings is umber-brown, marbled' with a few 

 ved transverse lines of darker brown and a 

 pale bent lines extei'ior to the reniform ; the 

 icular is rather oblique, and very difficult 

 make out ; the reniform very clearly de- 

 ed, and having a white circumscription, 

 ich is partkmlarly conspicuous on its outer 

 der; the hind wings are gray -brown, paler 

 the base, and having a distinct crescentic 

 idal spot : the head and thorax have ex- 

 ly the colours of the fore wings ; the body 

 ,t of the hind wings. 



The CATERPILLAR of this moth is unknown 

 me. Mr. Stainton gives Freyer as his 

 thority for the following description : 

 nil gray ; white dorsal line ; a row of black 

 between it and the whitish sub-dorsal 

 e; spiracular line whitish. Feeds on grass." 

 'tainton's Manned, vol. i. p. 211.) 

 The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 has 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 



fs. and much greater constancy of colour- 



505. The Donble-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 antenn?e 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 spots, 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 

 ai'ea the inner-marginal area is pale gray : 

 there is a brown shade about the middle of 

 the hind margin, and a bi-own dash at the 

 anal angle, which approaches the inferior bor- 

 der of the dark brown area first described : 

 the hind wings are dingy gi-ay-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, 

 Dubl in, captured by Mr. Tardy. (The. scientific 

 name is Apamea opliiogrcimma.} 



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. 



EDWARD NEWMAN'S BRITISH) 

 MOTHS. No. 20. PBICE 60.) 



: R. HARDWICKE, 

 (. 192, PICCADILLY. 



