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colour with pale buflf or rosy purplish tints, with numerous flexuous whitish streaks across the wiugs, bordered with 

 black, forming dots on the veins, and with a row of apical dusky spots ; the stigmata are large, distinct, and dusky, 

 with pale margins, with a third stigma indicated by two black streaks behind the former. The hind wings pale 

 straw-colour, with a broad dusky margin narrowed towards the anal angle, and with several small pale arched 

 dots along the edge. The caterpillar is whitish grey with a dark line down the back. It feeds on low plants 

 and grasses, as well as on the goat's-beard in the autumn and spring, and the moth appears in Juno and July. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Lytia umbrosa (tUe six-striped Rustic). 

 " Fig. 2. Lytjca leucographa. 



" Fig. 3. LytTa albimacula. 



" Fig. 4. Cliarajas Ccspitis. 5. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 6. Charieas fusca (the barred feathered Rustic). 



" Fig. 7. Charaeas nigra (the black Rustic). 



** Fig. 8. Cerapteryx Graminis (the antler moth). 



" Fig. 9. Rusina fcrruginea (the brown feathered Rustic). 



Punts. — Fig. 10. Avena fatua (wild Oat-grass). 



" Fig. 11. Briza media (common Quaking-grass). 



LytiEa umbrosa, R. ferrugioea, and C. Graminis are from specimens for which I am indebted to' Mr. H. Doubleday. L. leucographa, 

 L. albimacula, L. nigra, aud C. fusca are from the cabinet of Mr. Stephens. C. Cespitis is from the British Museum, and its larva from 

 Hiibner. The female of C. Graminis is sometimes much larger and more clouded in its markings, wliich formerly led some to suppose it another 

 species — but I have thought it too well known now to require a figure. H. N. H. 



LYT^A, Stephens. (NOCTUA, p. Boisduval, Guenee.) 

 The antennas in this genus are robust and serrated and ciliated in the males, but simple in the females ; 

 the thorax is short, and the abdomen short, slender, and tufted ; the wings round at the base and glossy ; the 

 basal joints of the palpi clothed with loner, loose scales exposing the apical joint ; the under wings have a light, 

 central, transverse streak, a central spot, and a broad, rather darkened apical margin. 



SPECIES 1.— LYT^A UMBROSA. Plate XXII., Fig. 1. 



SvNONVMEs. — Noctua umbrosa, Hiibner; Treitfchke ; Godart ; Boisduval; Gu^ne'e ; (Noctua u.) Stephens ; (Lytxa u.) Wood, Ind. 

 Eut., pi. 8, fig. 118. Noctua se^'strigata, Haworth. 



This species measures from 1] to 1} inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which, as well as the head and 

 thorax, are of a red-brown colour, the former with three slender, dark, undulated streaks between the base and 

 the two stigmata, which are separated from each other by an ill-defined brown bar, and are followed by a slender 

 dark, curved line, then a brown cloud, and a sknder apical dark streak ; the abdomen and hind wings are pale 

 red brown and shining, the latter with a slender dark stripe below the middle, and a broad, ill-defined, brown 

 margin. It is rather rare, although widely distributed, occurring in July and August. The caterpillar is 

 greyish white, with a dusky stripe on each side above. 



SPECIES 2.— LYT;EA LEUCOGRAPHA. Plate XXII., Fig. 2. 



SvNONVMEs.— iVoc^jio leucogTapha, Hiibner; Stephens, 111. 2, p. I Noctua liriia, Uuhner? Treitschke ; Boisduval. 

 199; Treitschke ; Boisduval ; Guenee; Wood, lud. Ent., pi. 8, fig. 119. I Agrolis agalliitia, Curtis, MSS. 



This species measures 1 .| inch in the expanse of tlie fore wings, which are of a pale-brown colour, varied on 



the costa with pale bufl^, and on the hind jiart of the disc with reddish ; near the base arc two dark streaks, 



