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insect, are of a shining brown colour, slightly tinged with coppery. Near the base of the wing is a pale 

 anti'ulated striara, and another undulated one before the anterior sti(?ma. These strijaj are almost obsolete, beino- 

 cliiefly visible by their dark slender edging. The stigmata are of the same colour as tlio rest of the wing, and 

 edged slenderly with black, the anterior one being connected by a slender line with the preceding stigma (whicli 

 is open in front) ; the posterior stigma is marked behind with a small angulated patch of black. Beyond this 

 stigma is a very curved striga formed of very delicate black arches, sometimes almost obliterated : half-way 

 lietween which and the margin is a dusky bar, and there is a slight row of blackish triangular m.arginal dots ; a 

 black patch behind the anterior stigma indicates the place of the supplemental one ; the costa is marked with 

 several pale and black oblique dots ; the hind wings and abdomen are scarcely paler than the front ones. The 

 caterpillar is pale brown, with two rows of black patches along the back, and a yellow line on each side above 

 the feet. It feeds on low plants and under decayed bark, and undergoes its transformation in May, and the 

 moth appears in July. It occurs not uncommonly in various parts of the South of England. 



SPECIES 0.— GRAPHIPHOKA BRUNNEA. Plati: XXV., Fig. 11. 



Noctua lucifera^ Esiici. 

 Noctua FragariiS, Burkhausen. 



Synonymes. — Noctua brunnea, Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; Hubuer ; 

 Hawoith ; Treitschke ; Stephens; Wood, Inil. Eiit., pi. Jl, fig. 159 ; 

 Hoisihival (Noctua b.) 



This handsome species varies from 1^ to 1^ inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are of a rich 

 purplish or very dark brown, with a double dark abbreviated striga at the base, a nearly straight bar preceding 

 the anterior stigma, which is of the same colour as the rest of the wing, slightly margined with luteous and 

 black, and followed by a nearly quadrate, dark, liver brown patch, extending to the costa ; the second stigma 

 is yellowisli, shaded with brown in the middle, followed at a short distance by a darker bar, and a largo patch 

 extending to the costa, but terminating before the apex. In some specimens the ordinary striga; .are rather more 

 distinct ; the one beyond the posterior stigma being formed of numerous small blackish arches inclosing a pale 

 fascia, succeeded by a broader, posteriorly irregular, uniformly brown fascia. There are also the rudiments of 

 a small black supplemental stigma behind the ordinary basal one. The hind wings are paler brown, slightly 

 lighter at the tip ; with the cilia, as well as the sides and tip of the abdomen, rosy brown. The caterpillar is 

 found in the spring under broad-leaved plants, its food consisting of low-growing weeds. It is naked, and of 

 a cofleo brown colour ; the head black, with two white stripes ; the back with a white longitudinal line, and 

 llie sides with lateral stripes; each segment with two dark brown lines. The moth appears at the end of Julv. 

 Not rare ; found in the woods round London and elsewhere. Perth, Jlr. Douglas. 



SPECIES 10. — GRAPHIPHORA CANDELISEQUA ? Plate XXVI,, Fig. 12, 10. 



SvNOKYMK. — Nov.ina Cundelheqtut ? Wicn. Ver/.. ; Hubner ; Treitschke; Stephens; \\'(iinl, Ind. Eiit., pi. 9, 1il'. IGO; Buitduval 



(Nnctua c. ) 



This species measures I^ inch in the expansion of the fore wings, wliich arc of a red brown colour irrorated 

 with glaucous, the dusky striga; occasionally very indistinct ; tlie first abbreviated behind, succeeded by a pale 

 dot ; a second undulated before the anterior stigma ; another dentatcd beyond the outer stigma, succeeded by a 

 ]i;ikT one, slightly undulated : the stigmata are pale luteous brown, edged with a dusky line, and greyish in the 

 middle. There is also a dusky dot behind the anterior stigma in the place of the supplemental one, and there 

 is a row of marginal black spots; the hind wings are luteous brown, with the margin darker. The cilia; are 

 pale reddish. The antennas are exceedingly slender, with the ciliations scarcely perceptible. The abdomen is 

 pale luteous brown. 



