NOCTUIDjE. — CELiKNA. IT 



Head and thorax brown, tinged with rosy: anterior wings rosy-brown, with two 

 black lineoliE at the base, the second placed on the inner margin, a pale un- 

 dulated whitish transverse striga before the middle, and a second behind; be- 

 yond the latter is a pale yellowish or whitish fascia, bordered towards the 

 hinder margin with a shghtly waved dentated yellowish striga, edged internally 

 with some black triangular spots : the stigmata are cream-coloured or ochra- 

 ceous, the anterior one with a dusky centre, the posterior with an ashy line ; 

 the central nervure is whitish, as are the two which branch off from it at their 

 junction with the posterior stigma; on the hinder margin is an interrupted 

 black line ; behind the central nervure is a black hook : posterior wings fus- 

 cous, with a central spot, and the margin darker. 

 Not having an opportunity of consulting Hiibner's work at the time that portion 

 of my Catalogue containing a notice of this species was printed, I suspected 

 from Ochsenheimer's specific character, that it might be the Noctua leuco- 

 grapha of the first-mentioned author, but having recently obtained the true 

 No. leucographa, and having kindly been allowed by my friend J. G. Children, 

 Esq. to examine his copy of Hiibner's valuable pubUcation, I could not find 

 the present insect figured therein ; and, as it has been lately named after 

 my friend Mr. Haworth, it is with pleasure I retain the appellation, as a 

 testimony of his useful labours, in furnishing us with a knowledge of the 

 indigenous Lepidoptera. 



Taken in considerable plenty, in July, near Wliittlesea-mere. 



Sp. 3. hibernica. Alis anticis rufescente-fuscis fascia posticfi strigfiquc dentata 

 pallidioribus, stigmd antica obsoletd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



No. hibernica. Haworth MSS. — Ce. hibernica. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 57. 

 No. 6251. 



Head and thorax of a reddish-brown ; anterior wings the same, without any 

 black lineolae at the base, with a very obscure whitish transverse undulated 

 striga before the middle, and another somewhat more evident behind the 

 middle; beyond the latter is a whitish fascia, in which is a paler dentated 

 striga, slightly edged interiorly with reddish-bro-vvn ; the anterior stigma is 

 in general obsolete, the posterior dirty ochraceous, with a dusky centre ; on 

 the hinder margin is an interrupted black line ; the central nervure is rather 

 pale towards the apex only, and the two which branch from it a little so at 

 the base: posterior wings ashy-fuscous, with a fimbria and central lunule 

 darker. 

 This differs from the foregoing in the simplicity and uniformity of its colours ; 

 the anterior wings not having any of the black markings that form such 

 strong characters in the last described species, and the anterior stigma being 

 in general obsolete. 



All the specimens which I have seen of this insect were taken near 

 -Dublin. I am indebted to my friend N. A. Vigors, Esq., for the 

 pair which I possess ; they were captured, I believe, near Dublin. 



Haustellata. Vol. III. 1st July, 1829. c 



