AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. j3_r, 



grey to a red-brown colour, variously sliadcMl or marked ^y\^\x deeper tints, especially a darker, irregular, 

 indistinct bar running across the wing between the stigmata, which .are ordinarily obsolete, but occasionally 

 distinct and of a greyer hue than the rest of the wing, and slightly encircled with white. Near the apical 

 margin of the wing is a pale striga, edged with brown on the inside, and rather elbowed near the casta, where 

 is a distinct brown patch. Tiio hind wings arc grey or brown, with the margin and a central lunule dusky brown : 

 the joints of the .antenna; of the m.alo h.ave tlie sides angulated .and setose. The varieties .are very numerous. 

 That named subsetac(!a by Ilaworth, has the wings ashy, clouded with grey, and three grey lunules attached to 

 the posterior whitish lunule. The N. nebulosa, Jlaw., has the wings hoary grey, with two reddish-browu strio-a; 

 and a terminal one formed of throe sub-triangular spots. Noctua fusc.at.a. Haw., has the fore wintrs blackish 

 with the two stigmata encircled with wliite rings, and a subapical, slightly undulated, pale striwa ; and 

 N. angusta, Haw., has the wings varied with livid and brown colours, .and with the white stifrmal circles and 

 apical strigffi less distinct than in the preceding variety. The caterpillar is green, with a white line down the 

 back and a yellow one on each side. It feeds on the oak, in the autumn, and the moth, which is very abundant, 

 appears in March and April. 



SPECIES 2.— O. (T.ENIOCAMPA) INTERMEDIA. Plate XXVII., Fig. 5. 



Synonvmes.— OrMosaa intermedia, Stephens, Illust. If. 2, p. 141 ; Wood, InJ. Ent. pi. 10, fig. 172. 

 This species measures U inch in the expansion of the fore wings, and is closely allied to the preceding species, 

 from which, however, the much more strongly pectinated antenna; of the males remove it ; the fore win^s are of 

 a grey-brown colour, with three darker foscia;, the stigmal circles and ordinary striga; being pale, the hinder 

 striga is duplicated ; the hind wings are dusky ash, with the cilia slightly rosy. Found in Richmond Park, by 

 Jfr. Stephens. 



N'octiia colH?iitQ^ Esper. 



Xoctiia subplumbea, Haworth ; Curtis. 



SPECIES .■?.—(). ( T/ENIOCAMPA) GRACILIS. Plate XXVII., Fig. 9. 



Synonymes. — Noctua gracilis, Wicn. Vera. ; Trcitsclikc ; I'.ib. ; 

 Hiibner ; Stephens; Wooii, Inil. Ent. pi. 10, fig. 173. 

 ?toctua lepida. Boikhaiiscn. 



This species measures H inch in the expanse of the fore wings, and is .allied to the preceding in its strongly- 

 pectinated male antenna;. It is of a greyish slate colour, slightly clouded with greyer tints, with the ordin.ary 

 strigas very indistinct ; a very indistinct curved one, v.aricd with ferruginous, running between the stigmata, 

 which are concolorous, but circled with pale whitish buff'; and the subapical striga is more distinct and rather 

 irrcffular, with several black dots on its inner margin. There are also several black dots on the costa, and an 

 apical row of small ones at the base of the cilia. The hind wings are pale brown, with the margin darker. 

 Varieties occur in the strength of the markings. The caterpillar is green, with the sides yellow, each segment 

 with a black spot and several dusky dots. It feeds on the oak and other trees, upon the trunks of which the 

 moth is found in JIarch and April ; but it is very rare in the woods round London. Found flying round the 

 blossoms of Sallow by j\Ir. H. Doubleda)-, at Epping. 



SPECIES 4.— O. (T^NIOCAMPA) MUNDA. Plate XXVII., Fig. G. 



Synonvmes. — Noctua munda, Wien. Verz. ; Fabr. ; Ochs. ; Tr. ; 

 Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 10, f. 174. 

 Noctua gemina, Espcr. 



Noctua geminata, Haworth. 



Noctua bimaculata, Haworth; Curtis (variety). 



Noctua Lota, HUbner. 



This species measures somewhat more than \h inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are of an ashy 

 grey, varying to pale ferruginous, slightly clouded with darker tints, with the ordinary stigmata and striga; quite or 



