NOCTUIDyE. APAMEA. 9 



Head, thorax, and anterior wings deep obscure black, the latter with a few 

 darker clouds and obsolete strigae : the costa with a few ochraceous or pale 

 luteous spots, from which sometimes arise some obscure lutescent strigce : to- 

 wards the hinder margin is a waved series of lutescent spots : the anterior 

 stigma is minute and nearly obsolete, the posterior usually snow-white, with 

 a minute white spot or two adjoining : cilia a little clouded with dusky: ab- 

 domen and posterior wings fuscous, the base of the latter palest. 



The colour of the posterior stigma varies : in some examples it is whitish, in 

 others luteous, or flavescent. 



Not very frequently met Matli : it is found, however, occasionally 

 in Copenhagen-fields, and in other similar and woody places in the 

 metropolitan district: in the years 1818 and 1819, it was in plenty 

 at Dover, in the beginning of August, having captured a fine series 

 there during those periods. " Alderley." — Rev. E. Stanley. 



t Sp. 5. unanimis. 



Ap. unanimis. Ochsenheimer. — Steph. Catal. part ii. p. 85. No. 6234. Noctua 

 unanimis. Hiibner. 



With regard to this insect I am compelled to remain silent, never having seen a 

 specimen : there seems to be some uncertainty about it with authors ; Och- 

 senheimer ni his Catalogue, p. 75, gives it as an Apamea; but his friend and 

 posthumous editor, Treitschke, omits it in his account of this genus, but refers 

 it to Hadena gemina, giving his readers his reason in a long German disquisi- 

 tion, at the end of his description of Ap. didyma:— it will therefore probably 

 sink as a species. 



Mr. Dale informed me that he captured a specimen in Scot- 

 land. 



Sp. 6. oculea. AUs anticis fusco ferrugineoque variis aut nebnhsis, obsolete 



strigatis, digmate reniformi albido. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 2—5 Un.) 

 Ph. No. oculea. Linne.—k^. oculea. Steph. Catal part ii. p. 85. No. 6235. 



Head and thorax fuscous : anterior wings fuscous, varied or clouded with fer- 

 ruginous, with two obsolete paler strigiae, one before, the other behind, the 

 middle, and the colour darker between j between them the stigmata are placed, 

 the anterior inchning and elongate; the posterior reniform and white ; with 

 one or two adjoining white dots ; near the posterior margin is an midulated 

 pale striga, and the hinder margin is clouded with fuscous ; the abdomen and 

 posterior wings uniform fuscous. 



This species is subject to considerable variety: in some examples, the anterior 

 wings are rufescent, and but little clouded, with the posterior stigma luteous 

 or flavescent, with an adjoining white spot: in others, the wings are rusty- 

 brown, with the posterior stigma of a deep ashy-brown :— while occasionally 



