AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. HI 



the second almost indistinct, a third streak behind the outer stigma is much bent, and united by a slitrht hook 

 with the second stigma ; the space between the very pale stigmata is dark ; near the apical margin is a pale 

 broadish stripe, bearing a row of dark triangular spots, and a few black ill-defined dots on the margin itself ; the 

 hind wings ochrcous brown, with a dark central lunule and two dusky bars. Mr. Stephens' specimen of this 

 very rare insect was taken near York. The caterpillar is green with white and brown spots. 



SPECIES 3.— LYTiEA ALBIMACULA. Plate XXII., Fig. 3. 



Synonymes. — Graphiphora alhimacufa, Stcpliens ; 111. II. 2, pi. 19, fig. 3 ; anil App. jt. 199 ; (Lytfea alb.) 



This species measures about 1 \ inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are shining brown, " beautifully 

 shaded with rich purple, with a pale-reddish patch at the base, towards the costa ; a black streak at the base, 

 with a suboccllatcd purplish spot between its tip and the inner margin, having an ovate black stigniatiform mark 

 adjoining ; on the disc is an elongate fuscous black patch, acute anteriorly, and truncate posteriorly ; in this, the 

 anterior stigma, which is round and white, is placed, and the posterior one at the hinder extremity ; the ordinary 

 strigae arc rather obsolete, but in the places of the usual hinder ones is a series of fuscous dots, united by an 

 uninterrupted black longitudinal streak to tlie reniform stigma"; posterior wings dusky-ash and glossy, with a 

 faint transverse striga, and darker border." Taken at Whittlesea Mere, and at Ringwood, Hants, in the autumn. 



CHAR^AS, Stephens. (LUPERINA and HADENA, p. Boisduval, GuiNZE.) 



The antennas in the males of the species, here associated together, are more or less pectinated, whilst they are 

 simple in the females ; the palpi arc very short, with the second joint gradually attenuated, and the apical joint 

 rather elongated and exposed, the thorax not crested ; the abdomen is terminated in the males by a tuft ; the 

 ■wings are generally somewhat toothed along the apical margin, the posterior pair being darker in tlie females 

 than in the males. The larvte are naked, and feed on the roots of plants ; they are thick and subvermiform, with 

 dark longitudinal stripes, and the pupa state is passed under ground. 



* WINGS RATHER BROADER AND LESS DENTICULATED (LUPERINA P. BOISDUVAL). 



SPECIES 1.— CHAR-EAS CESPITIS. Pl.«e XXII., Fio. 4, 5. 



Synonymes. — A^oc/ua c^'A^i^is, AVicn Vcrz. ; Fabi'TJus ; Hiibner ; Curtis; (Agrotis C'.) Stcpbens ; Wood, Ind. Eat., pi. 8, fig. 120. 

 Boisduval (Luperina C.) Noctita Hordci^ Schrank. 



The expansion of the fore wings of this species varies from 1 'r to nearly 1 : inches. They are of a blackish 

 brown colour, with a short basal ashy-coloured streak, behind which is a whitish somewhat transverse one, edged 

 with black ; another similar one but more curved is placed beyond tlie outer stigma, which, as well as the inner 

 one, is edged with a pale line, beyond which is a pale waved streak, witli a row of apical dark dots and several 

 whitish costal spots ; the hind wings in the male are whiti.sh gi'ey, but ashy brown in the female, with an ill-defined 

 row of dusky spots across the centre and a dusky border. The caterpillar is dark brown, with several pale longi- 

 tudinal stripes on each side. Found in lanes in Kent, in September. Mr. Stephens in his catalogue regarded as a 

 doubtful variety of this species a unique specimen obtained from the JIarshaniian Collection, which in his 

 Illustrations he described as distinct under the name of Charaas confinis, and which differs from the foregoing in 

 the " paler colour and narrowness of the fore wings, nearly uniformly-coloured hind wings, and slightly pectinated 

 antennae." 



