NOCTUID.'E. — MIANA. 13 



united by a black line, which is more or less distinct in various species: — in 

 others, the space between the stigmata is black: while some have the broad 

 white posterior fascia suffused with reddish, and in others it is nearly 

 ochraceous. 

 Caterpillar ashy- white, with a dorsal and two lateral lines violaceous, and black 

 stigmata ; head small, yellowish-brown. 



Not very common : taken occasionally in woody places near 

 London, also in Devonshire, the New Forest, in Norfolk, Suffolk, 

 and near Cheltenham, &c. " Ma.t\ock:'—Rev. F. W. Hope. " Al- 

 derley."— i2^t'. E, Stanley. « Kimpton."— i?gi;. G. T. Rudd. 



Sp. 3. latruncula. AUs anticis fuscis cupreo micantibus stigmatibus strigisque 



paUidioribus. (Exp. alar. 10 lin. — 1 unc. 1 lin.) 

 No. latruncula. Hubner. — Mi. latruncula. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 86. No. 



6241. 



Head and thorax as in the last, but darker: anterior wings fuscous or reddish - 

 ash, with very obsolete strigae, and the posterior margin more or less glossed 

 with cupreous : stigmata usually paler than the disc : posterior wings deep 

 fuscous, with reddish cilia. 



A most variable species, both in size and colour : in some specimens the latter 

 is nearly of a pale uniform cinereous, with the margins of the stigmata and 

 those of the ordinary strigae dusky or black : others have a broad whitish 

 fascia on the posterior margin, nearly as in the last-mentioned species, some 

 dusky, or nearly black ; but in all the varieties the greater uniformity in the 

 colouring of the basal half of the wing, the striga being very obsolete in 

 general, distinguishes this species from Ag. strigilis. 



More abundant than the preceding insect; frequenting the same 

 haunts, and almost too closely allied to be really distinct : it is 

 however smaller, and in the present state of our knowledge it is 

 advisable to keep it separate ; for as Mr. Haworth says, when 

 speaking of this genus, " to join them into one would be a capital 

 error, no less indeed than mistaking a section for a species." '' Bot- 

 tisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 4. ^thiops. AUs omnibus nigt^is, anticis atro nebnlosis. (Exp. alar. 11 lin. 



— 1 unc.) 

 No. -Slthiops. Haworth.— Mi. ^thiops. Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 86. No. 



6242. 



Entirely black, or very deep fuscous; the anterior wings with several darker 

 clouds, or very black lineolae ; the posterior margin faintly cupreous, with an 

 obscui'e paler undulated striga. 



Var. /S. Much paler, but marked as in var. a.. 



Not uncommon, and found with the preceding insect, from which 



