AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. I47 



will as the fourth ; tlic apical margin and cilia rather darker ; the stigmata are obsolete. The hind wings brown, 

 with grey cilia. 



The variety named Approximans by llaworth has the basal striga obsolete, and the two outer strigte 

 approximating towards each other on the hind margin of the wing ; whilst the variety named Semifuscans by 

 llaworth has the basal half of the fore wing rufous grey, and the apical half dark rufous brown, and the second 

 striga thickened. 



The caterpillar is ashy grey, with pale stri])es along the sides. It feeds on the plantain, and is full-grown in 

 October. The moth occurs in various of the woods round London, and in Devonshire and Cumberland, &c., at 

 the end of June and beginning of September ; it is not a very uncommon species. 



SI'ECIKS 2.— GR.'\M.MESIA BILINEA. Pl.\te XXIX., Fio. 18. 



SvNONYMFs — Noctun hilinra, HiibiiiT; Il^iwortli ; Trcitschke ; Boisiluval ; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 651 (Caradrina b.) ; Stephens; Wood, 



Ind. Eot. pi. 10, fig. 193. 



This species measures rather more than 1^ inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a dark grey 

 brown, with three straight transverse dark striga," running across the wings, and margined with lutcous, the basal 

 one abbreviated ; there is also another very indistinct brown striga running acro.ss the middle of the wing through 

 an obscure ear-shaped spot. The hind wings arc pale brown, with the cilia and extremity of the body ochre- 

 coloured. Found in .June and July in various distant localities in the south of England, but certainly a rare 

 species. 



UESCIIIPTION OF PLATE XXX. 



Insfcts Fig. 1. Cila-i? Ilubricosa (the red chcsmit). 2. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 3. Dasvcampa Rubigiuea (t)ie dotted ehcstnut). 4. The Caterpillar. 



*' Fig. 5. Gl.Ta Vaccinii (tlic chesnut). 6. The Caterpillar. 



*' Fig. 7. Glffia Subnigra (the black ehesnut). 8. A varietv. 



" Fig. 9. Mccoptera Satellitia (the satellite). The Caterpillar is represented at the Tiglit hand of the foot 



of the Plate crawling from beneath a leaf. 

 " Fig. 11. Amphipyra Pyramidea (the copper underwing), 12. Tlie Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 13. Pyrophila Tragopoginis (the mouse). 14. The Caterpillar. 



** Fig. 15. Pyrophila Tetia (the mahogany) 



'* Fig. 16. Dypterigia Pinastri (the bird's wing). 



" Fig. 17. Lcmuris Typica (the dark gothic). 18. The CaterpilL-ir. 



Punts.. — Fig. 19. Rumex Acutus (the sharp-leaved Dock). 

 " Fig. 20. Delphinium Consolida (the field Larkspur). 



" Fig. 21. Vaccinium Myrtillus (the Bilberry). 



Figs. 8, 12, and 15 arc from specimens in the British Museum, and fig. 3 is from a specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Bentlcy ; the others ,-ire 

 .ill from specimens sent to me by Mr. H. Doubleday. The catcq)illars are all from Hiibner, with the exception of 11 from an original 

 drawing by Standish, in the British Museum, and 17 from a specimen sent ine by Mr. Doubleday. H. N. H. 



DASVCAMPA, GuiNEK. Boisduval. GL.EA, Stephens. OMALOSOMA. Ghenke, {OUm). 

 The curious species upon which recent French Lepidnpterists have proposed this genus is at once distmguished 

 by its caterpillar, which is entirely covered with silky hairs, and without oblique lateral lines ; the head is small ; 

 it feeds on low plants ; the cocoon is placed on the surface of the ground ; the body of the perfect insect is very 

 much depressed in both sexes, terminating squarely, that of the female being but little narrowed. The antenna 

 are rather thick and crenulated in the males ; the palpi not porrected before the frontal tuft. The fore wings are 

 marked with numerous irregular spots on a bright yellow ground, clouded with reddish brown. 



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