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id semi-transparent. It changes to a CHRY- 

 u.is on or near the surface of the ground. 

 The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 i common in England, Scotland, and Ireland. 

 ?he scientific name is Noctua augur.} 



551. The Flame Shoulder (Xodua plect-j). 



554. THE FLAME SHOULDER. The palpi are 

 porrected and conspicuous, the third joint 

 small, and received into the second as into a 

 cup ; the antennae of the male are delicately 

 ciliated, those of the female simple : the colour 

 of the fore wings is vinous-brown, with the 

 costal margin broadly white from the base to 

 beyond the reniform spot; the white colour is 

 impure ; there is a dash of the same colour at 

 base of the inner margin; both the dis- 

 idal spots are distinctly outlined in gray, and 

 h are united with the costal white ; a streak 

 purer white extends from the base of the 

 ing to the orbicular, and below this, imrne- 

 .tely adjoining it, is a blackish shade: the 

 d wings are white ; the head and collar arc 

 e, the square disk of the thorax is vinous- 

 wn ; the body pale wainscot-brown. 

 The EGGS, kindly given me by Mr. MoncreafF, 

 re laid in a chip box, and were hatched in 

 ne; and the CATERPILLARS, which fed on 

 ies' bed-straw (Galiinn rerum] and sweet 

 oodruff (Asperula odorata), were full-fed on 

 the 26th of July. The caterpillar rolls itself 

 in a compact ring when annoyed. The head 

 is glabrous, very shining, narrower than the 

 second segment, and especially narrower than 

 the rest of the body, porrected in crawling, 

 and not notched on the crown ; the body is 

 smooth and velvety, gradually but slightly in- 

 creasing in width from the second to the 

 eleventh segment, which is wider. The twelfth 

 is rather abruptly truncate : the colour of the 

 d is umber-brown, with a pale longitudinal 



patch on each cheek; the dorsal surface of the 

 body is umber-brown; the medio-dorsal stripe 

 rather darker, narrow, and intersected by a 

 slender interrupted white line ; there is an 

 upper lateral stripe, darker, half-way between 

 the medio-dorsal stripe and the spiracles; this 

 is also intersected by a slender interrupted 

 whitish line ; the lower margin of the dorsal 

 surface is darker ; the ventral is paler than the 

 dorsal area, particularly at the junction of the 

 two areas, where it may be called a pale 

 lateral stripe; all parts of the body are reticu- 

 lated and dotted with dark brown; the, legs, 

 feet, and claspers are of the same dingy colour 

 as the body. 



The MOTH appears on the wing in July, and 

 is generally common throughout England, 

 Scotland, and Ireland. ( The scientific name 

 is Xoctua plectM.} 



555. The Black Collar (Noctitafammatra). 



555. THE BLACK COLLAR. The palpi are 

 porrected, rather counivent towards the tip, 

 and blunt; the antennae are rather long and 

 slightly serrated : the fore wings are rather 

 narrow, the costa very straight, the hind 

 margin rather rounded, and slightly waved; 

 their colour is grayish-brown with a somewhat 

 silky appearance, and having a black linear 

 mark issuing from the middle of the base, and 

 extending rather more than asixth ofthelength 

 of the wing ; beyond this, and rather higher 

 on the wing, is a second black mark almost 

 linear, and yet obscurely and obtusely pyra- 

 midal in outline ; there are other markings on 

 the fore wings both darker and paler than the 

 ground colour, but these are so obscure the 

 specimen being somewhat wasted that I 

 cannot describe them with any certainty : the 



