AND TIIEIIi TRANSFORMATIONS. jgg 



The caterpillar is doscribed by Trcitsclike as of a blaokisli brown, striped with reddish and white, with a 

 reddish yeUow head, and with small black lines at the siiles of the back. Mr. Stephens reared a sjiecimen, 

 which he gives as identical with the Candelisequa, from a caterpillar found at Darenth Wood, Kent, in May, 

 tiie moth appearing in July. 



SPECIES 11.— GRAPHIPIIORA TRISTIGMA. Plate XXV., Fig. 10. 



SvNoNYMEs.— GrapAi>/(o™Ari.v/!V/mfl,Oclisonhoinier; TrcitM-hke; ,i Noctua rUlrapezium, 1iov\dy.msm ; Hiibner, Noct., fig. 115. 

 Stephens; AVooiI, li.a. Kilt. pi. 10, fig. 101 ; Boisiluval, Ind.Mutli., I IVoclua rhomhoidea, Kipi:i ? 

 p. 105 (Noctiui Ir.). I 



This species measures rather more than l.| inch in the expanse of the fore wings. It has much of the 

 character and ajipearance of Or. brunnea, the fore wings and body being of a dark rich purplish brown colour, 

 varied with strig;e as in that species ; close to the base of the wings is a black spot of variable form and size ; 

 another black patch is placed immediately before tlu! basal stigma, and extends backwards ; and there is a third 

 rhomboidal spot, of the same colour, between the stigmata, both of which are of a brown colour, thus differing 

 from Gr. brunnea ; beyond the second stigma is a narrow and much curved pale striga, followed by a broader 

 irregular dark one, the succeeding space being of the ground colour of the wings, minutely speckled with ochre 

 colour. Tlie hind wings are pale grey-brown, with the hind margin darker ; the cili^ of all the wings are rosy 

 brown. Mr. Humphreys has observed that the anterior tarsi are anuulatcd with black and white, whereas they 

 are light brown in Gr. brunnea, with the last joint black. 



The caterpillar closely resembles that of Gr. triangulum. On each side, the back is marked with a blackish 

 line, bordered by a white Hue on each side ; above the feet there also runs a reddish line. It is said by Treitschke 

 to feed on the Leontodon Taraxacum. The moth appears in July and August, and has been taken (but by no 

 means commonly) at Daronth, Ripley, and E|>ping. jMr. II. Doubleday mentions its apparent identity with 

 the Gr. rhomboidca of Ochscnheimer, but Boisduval follows Stephens in giving them as distinct. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXVI. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Grapliiphor,i fcsliva (the iii^ailctl clay). 2. The Caterpillar. ':* 



** Fig. 3. Graphiphoia Iriangiiluin (the double square spot). 



'* V\<t, 4, Gmphiphora C. nigrum (the setaceous bebrew character). 5. The Caterpillar. 



*' Fig. 6. Grapliiphora bella (the small square spot). 



" l'"ig. 7. Graphiphora plccta (the flame shoulder). 8. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 9. Gmphiphora lunuliiKi, a fiuialc (the crescent-striped). 



" Fig. 10. Graphiphora musiva (the light-edged clar). 11. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 12. Grapliiphora candelisequa (the brown clay). 13. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 14. Graphiphora depuucta. 



Plants. — Fiu. 15. t'iclioiiiiui lutybus (wild Succory). 

 " Fig. 10. Arrhenathcrum aren.iceum. 



Graphiphora festiva, triaugulum, C. nigrum, bella, and plecta, arc from specimens furnished me by Mr. H. Uoubleday. l.uiiulina is from 

 a dusky female specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Stephens, the males are described as much more distinctly marked. Candelisequa is trom a 

 specimen in the collection of Mr. Bentley : but it docs not appear to correspond with the figures of the Continental species. Depuncta is from 

 a British specimen, kindly lent by Mr. Reeves, for the purpose of being figured in this work. Musiva, being generally disallowed as a 

 British insect, I have thought it better to figure the Continental species, which I have taken from Godart. 



The caterpillars are from Hiibner ; that of Candelisequa is, of course, the larva of the true Continental species, and probably not of the insect in 

 Mr. Bentley's collection, which may possibly prove a variety of some other species. H. N. H. , 



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