40 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Some examples are much brighter than others, and considerably resemble the 

 next species; but they are usually of a smaller size than that species. 



Caterpillar black, with a broad yellow dorsal line, and transverse red streaks on 

 the sides ; the fifth segment with an elongate black conical protuberance : it 

 feeds on the lime, alder, poplar, beech, &c. : — the imago is found towards 

 the end of June. 



One of the most abundant of the British Noctuidse, frequenting 

 pales, walls, and trunks, especially in the vicinity of woods and 

 shrubby places. " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. " Common at 

 Kimpton."— i^^t;. G. T. Rudd. " York and Newcastle."— W^. C. 

 Hewitson, Esq. 



Sp. 6. tridens. Alis anticis cinereo-canis, characieribus Psi nigris, posticis 

 albidis fimbrid pallida cinerascente. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 6 — 8 lin.) 



No. tridens. Wien. V. — Ac. tridens. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 92. No. 6283. 



Extremely similar to the foregoing : of a pale hoary-ash, with a black lateral 

 line on the head and thorax; anterior wings also hoary-ash, with a stout 

 black trifurcate hneola at the base, an oblique waved black striga before the 

 middle, and an arcuated dentate one near the hinder margin, bearing a 

 faint black -^ near the apex, and a stronger one at the anal angle ; on the 

 costa are several abbreviated oblique dusky streaks, of which the one between 

 the stigmata is longest, and is sometimes prolonged by a fuscous cloud 

 towards the centre of the wing ; the anterior stigma is bordered with black, 

 excepting a small portion towards the base of the costa ; and at the anterior 

 edge of the posterior one is a black semicircle, through which a black 

 streak from the anterior stigma passes somewhat obliquely; cilia hoary, in- 

 terrupted with slender fuscous streaks : posterior wings whitish, with a pale 

 ashy margin, and sometimes a faint transverse dusky striga behind the 

 middle ; cilia pale, spotted with fuscous. 



In some specimens the posterior wings are suffused with fuscous; and the 

 anterior ones vary much in colour^ as well as in the strength and intensity 

 of their markings. 



Caterpillar black, with a narrow yellow dorsal line, and red lateral one, the 

 sides with some yellowish marks, and the fifth segment spotted with white, 

 with a conical dorsal protuberance : it feeds on the plum-tree, sloe, willow, 

 white thorn, &c. : the imago appears in June. 



Not uncommon in woods and woody places, upon palings, trunks, 

 &c., throughout the metropolitan district, and in other parts. 

 " Epping." — Mr. H. Douhleday. 



■j Sp. 7. cuspis. " Alis anticis cinereis, luteo mixtis, characieribus psiformibus 



atris." — Ochs. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. — 8 lin.) 

 No. cuspis. Hilbner? — Ac. cuspis.^ Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 92. No. 6284. 

 Very similar to the foregoing, but rather larger : cinereous, with a black lateral 



