NOCTUID.Oi. HAM A. 5 



- of which is pale immaculate ash, the posterior clouded with dusky, and more 

 or less distinctly bordered with white^ as in Mamestra Brassicai : on the poste- 

 rior margins of the wing is a considerably undulated pale striga, with two 



, distinct angulations, as in most of the insects of the two preceding genera : 

 posterior wings pale cinereous, with a central lunule, the nervures and hinder 

 margin fuscescent, the latter sometimes with an obscure pale striga towards 

 the anal angle. 



Not very abundant : taken occasionally in gardens and shrubby 

 places in the vicinity of the metropolis, and in other parts. " Al- 

 les\ey:'—Eev. W. T. Bree. " Bottisham."— J?t^i;. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 2. basilinea. Alis anticis J'usco-griseis undatis, lineolii baseos atrCi. (Exp. 



alar. 1 unc. 5 — 7 lin.) 

 No. basilinea. Wien. F.— Ha. basilinea. Steph. Cutal. pt. ii. p. 84. No. 6227. 



Head and thorax ashy-brown, the latter sometimes with a griseous tinge : an- 



I, terior wings the same, with the ordinary strigaj usually very obsolete, but 

 sometimes more distinct^ with dusky margins, and always bearing a distinct 

 though variable black streak at the base, which is generally flexuous and 

 somewhat bifid at the apex ; the stigmata are ratlier variable in form ; the 

 anterior rather pale, the posterior with a dusky patch towards the inner 

 margin of the wing, and more or less bordered with whitish: towards the 

 hinder margin of the wing is a slightly undulated pale striga, and on the 

 margin itself is a row of minute trigonate black spots; posterior wings nearly 

 plain fuscous-ash, with the hinder margin, nervures^ and central spot 

 darker. 



The anterior wings are occasionally varied beautifully with hght griseous or 

 rosy. 



Caterpillar light gray, with a broad whitish dorsal, and a pale lateral line : — it 

 feeds on grasses in the autumn ; the imago is produced towards the end of 

 June, and frequents wcody places and gardens. 



Found throughout the metropolitan district, but not very com- 

 mon. " Kimpton."— iiez;. G. T. Rudd. " Epping."— Jf;-. //. 

 Douhleday. 



Sp. 3. testacea. Alis anticis testaceis, strigis duabus fascidrjue marginali fus- 

 cescentibus, striga posticd pallida ; posticis alhis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 — 7 lin.) 



No. testacea. Hiibner. — Ha. testacea. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 84.. No. 6228. 



Extremely variable : head and thorax testaceous : anterior wings the same, a 

 little clouded, with an interrupted waved striga before the middle, and an 

 arcuated one, composed of black lunules, and margined externally with ochra- 



- ceous, behind the middle, the stigmata being placed between : these are rather 

 small, fuscous, and indistinctly margined with fuscous and white ; there is 

 a third stigma arising from the second striga, formed by a black hook, which 

 frequently produces a black streak, which is prolonged to the third striga : 

 the hinder margin of the wing is irregularly dusky or fuscescent, and is pre- 



