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or represents it, has been described as phlogophagus, G. and E). It 

 (inter jacens) has the faded ochreous colour of armiger, and in the type, 

 form is nearly as large, with the markings of dipsaceus, there being on 

 the primaries an angulated median shade, while, on the secondaries, 

 the marginal band is distinct as well as the discal lunule. The reni- 

 form is dark and distinct, with a partial black annulus. Fringes as in 

 dipsaceus. There are two forms of interjacens ; one, typical, larger, 

 with more obliterated markings ; the other, smaller, and more dis- 

 tinctly marked. California " (< Bull. Ent. Soc. Brooklyn,' 30). To 

 this he adds : " Probably a climatic variety of dipsaceus " (in. Hit.}. 



Heliothis, Och., scutosa, Schiff., Fab. 



This rare British species is at once distinguished by the white 

 longitudinal nervures which cover the fore wings. Guenee says: 

 " It varies in shape, and also a little in colour. The figure of Curtis 

 (505) represents a very dark variety" (' Noctuelles,' vol. vi., p. 182). 

 Schiifermiiller's is really only a catalogue name and simply says : " The 

 fore wings olive or brown, coloured with pale spots " (' Sys. Verz.,'&c., 

 p. 89). Esper's diagnosis is copied from that of Fabricius who 

 writes : " Noctua laevis alis deflexis fusco alboque variis : posticis basi 

 albis ; macula fusca ; apice fuscis albo maculatis." " Statura et mag- 

 nitude N. gtyphicce. Corpus griseo fuscum. Alas anticae fuscae in medio 

 albaa maculis tribus fuscis cinctis, apice fuscae strigis punctisque mar- 

 ginalibus albis, subtus limbo albo punctis tribus inagnis atris. Postica* 

 basi albidee macula magna fusca, apice fuscae striga obsoleta maculisque 

 duabus albidis, subtus albas puncto medio, striga maculaque apicis 

 fuscis " (' Mantissa,' pp. 142-143). Of the first occurrence of II. 

 scntosa in Britain, Mr. Stainton writes : " First recorded as British by 

 Curtis, who figures and describes it in his ( British Entomology,' folio 

 595 ; the specimen from the collection of Mr. Heysham, ' was taken 

 on the banks of the river Caldew, a little below the village of Dalston, 

 in July, 1835.' I am not aware of any specimens having occurred 

 subsequently. According to Freyer, the larva feeds on Artemisia cam- 

 pestris " (' Ent. Ann.,' 1885, p. 16). Of this species Humphrey and 

 Westwood write: "This species has the fore wings dark brown, 

 with the veins and a subapical striga ochreous- white ; the disc of the 

 wing with three large brown spots edged with black, representing the 

 three stigmata, the anterior one preceded and followed by ochre-white 

 spots ; the apical with a row of black dots. The hind wings whitish- 

 ochre, with dark veins and a blackish central spot, and marginal 

 border in which are two round ochreous spots on the outside towards 

 the middle. The caterpillar is green, with black setigerous tubercles 

 and black lines on the back and sides ; it feeds on Artemisia campettris, 

 and the moth has occurred ' on the banks of the river Caldew, a little 

 below the village of Dalston, in July last ; ' also on the coast not far 

 from Skinlurness, in Cumberland " (' British Moths,' p. 237). It was 

 then recorded by Mr. Thornthwaite, in 1875, from Norfolk (' Entoni.,' 

 ix., 18), and again in 1876 (' Entom.,' x., p. 99). The later records 

 appear to be as follows: 'Entom.' xi., p. 231 ; 'Ent. Mo. Mag.' xv., 

 p. 137 and xvi., p. 229. A figure of this moth and a remarkably good 

 account of what is known of this species as British are given by Mr. 

 Fitch in the May (1877) No. of ' The Entomologist.' After describing 



