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colour, tinged with buff, witli rniinorous soft darker irregular brown marking!?, whereof those at the base form 

 two double strigre ; the second considerably in advance of the basal stigma, and much waved ; this stigma is 

 paler, and between it and the posterior one is a slight dusky striga ; beyond the latter stigma is a curved row of 

 whitish dots, edged before with black ; then follows a striga of cuneated blackish spots edged with whitish 

 lunules belli iid, followed by a marginal row of small brown triangular dots, with a paler streak at the base of the 

 cilia. The hind wings arc deep brown, but paler at the base. The head, thorax, and body arc of the colour of 

 the fore wings. 



The species is rare, but very widely dispersed, having been taken as far north as Flisk. 



SPECIES 5.— GRAPHIIMIORA LUNULINA. Plate .XXVl., Fin. !1. 

 Sysonvmfs. — Noctua lunulina, Hawortli ; Stc]ili™s (Gr. 1.) 

 The following is a translation of Mr. Ilaworth's description of this species. Expansion of the fore wings 

 l;f inch ; wings brown, slightly ashy, with four obsolete paler strigre, edged with black, as though formed ot 

 minute lunules ; the first at the base almost obliterated, the second waved, preceding, and the third arc!i"d 

 beyond the middle of the wing ; between these is a jnile hmule and some dots in the place of the jiosterior stigma ; 

 the anterior stigma is obsolete ; then follows a fourth dentated striga, and a row of minute black dots on the 

 margin ; cili;c brown, but slightly ashy. Hind wings ashy, with a brown border ; the extreme margin pale, 

 with whitish ciliaa. Taken in Cambridgeshire. 



SPECIES (!.— GRAPHIPHORA BIRIVIA. 



Synonymes. — JVoclun Inrivia, Iliilmcr; Cuilis' Cruiilc ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 52, fig. 1602 ; Roisduval, Ind. m. (Spa-lotis h.) 



This species is of the size of the female of Agrotis exclamationis. The thorax and fore wings are of a mouse- 

 grey colour, varied with yellowish at the base, between the stigmata and at the ajiex, with whitish lines and spots. 

 The first and second strigse are entire and slender, the stigmata distinct and edged with whitish, succeeded by a 

 slender lunate pale striga, bent in the middle towards the cilige, which is succeeded by a yellowisli dentated 

 striga. The cilite grey, but whitish in the hind wings of the female, which have also a dark margin. 



SPECIES 7.— GRAPHIPHORA CRASSA. Pl.ite XXV., Fig. .5. 



Synonymes. — Xoctun Crassa, Iliibner; Hawortli ; Treitselike ; Stephens? Wood, Ind. Ent., pi. 9, f. 157. 

 This is another obscure species, tlie fore wings measuring about 1 -' inch in exjianse, and being of a shining 

 brown colour clouded with blackish, the base marked with a blackish line, and various irregular markings of the 

 same colour between and encircling the stigmata, which are very obsolete. A third stigma, but very imperfect, 

 and occasionally entirely obliterated, exists. Occasionally the ordinary strigae are likewise visible, of a paler 

 colour edged with brown ; namely, one at the base, another preceding, a third following the stigmata, and the 

 fourth destitute of the brown edging near the apical margin ; the hind wings are pale brown, greyish at the base, ■ 

 with a darker margin and veins. The antenna; are slender, with very slight pectinations in the male. Found 

 in Norfolk, Shropshire, Cambridge, Scotland, as well as near London, but not common. 



SPECIES 8.— GRAPHIPHORA AUGUR. Plate XXV., Fm. 0, 



Sy-nonvmes. — Noctua Angur, Fabr. ; Hiibncr; Trcitschke ; 

 llaworth ; Stephens; Wood, Int. Ent., pi. !), fig. 158; Boisduval 

 (lud. Meth. Spa;lotis a.) 



Noctua omega, Espcr. 



Noctua assimila7is, Borkhauseii. 



Noctua Hippopltaes, Geyer. 



This species measures from li to l^ inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which, as well as the entire 



