LEPIDOPTERA. 261 
‘ie. 254; Catocala nupta, Fig. 255, the Red Underwing; and 
Lrebus strix, Fig. 256. 

Fig. 251.—Noctua brunnea. 
The bodies of these moths are robust and sometimes massive, and 
are scaly rather than woolly. The thorax is sometimes bristling 
with hairy tufts. 
This genus includes eight hundred species, of which there are 

Fig. 252.—Catocala fraxini. 
about three hundred in France. The caterpillars of the Noc- 
tuina are smooth or very slightly covered with hair, usually 
of a pale colour, and live on low plants, of which they devour, 
some the leaves, others the roots; then it is they are most destruc- 
