ANn THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. J49 



as varieties of this species. Mr. Stephens (lUustr. Ilaust. Supplement, vol. iv., p. 389) indeed, as well as Boisduval, 

 had entertained the same opinion ; but Mr. Doubleday specificaUy separates the subnigra, next described. Tlie 

 variety named Polita is described by Ilaworth as very similar to Vaccinii, but with the wings browner, with 

 the sirigaa and veins reticulated with ashy scales, whilst Spadicea is described by Haworth as having the fore 

 wings of a nearly uniform subcastaneous colour, very slightly clouded with brown, the costa near the tip witii 

 a few small whitish dots. The true Spadicea is, however, as I believe, identical with the following species. (See 

 Gu^n6c in Ann. Soc. Ent. do France, for 1841, p. 243.) The caterpillar is reddish brown, with a pale 

 lateral line, the first segment black with wliite stripes ; the belly pale greenish. It feeds on the bilberry and 

 whortleberry, bramble, &c., and the niotli appears in September, October, and November, hybernating and 

 appearing again in the spring. It is an abundant species. 



SPECIES 2.— GLiEA SUBNIGRA. Plate XXX., Fig. 7, «. 



Synonymes.—A^oc/. ««AHi>rn, II;iH-cirili ;Su-plicus; Curtis, Brit. , Noel, spadicea, Hiibner? (ntc Ilauoitli) ; Giieue'e iu Ann. 

 Ent. pi. 268 ; Wood Iml. Knt. pi. 1 1, li-. 211. | Soc. Ent. France, 1841, p. 24.3. 



This species is rather smaller than the preceding, measuring 1^ inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which 

 are of a chestnut black colour and shining, some specimens having ncarl}- all the markings obliterated as in our 

 figure 7, exccjit the black patch in the outer stigma, and a row of reddish lunulated spots, but very indistinct 

 towards the apical margin. Jlr. Ilaworth's description and Mr. Curtis's figure represent a strong variety in which 

 the two basal striga; are more distinct, tht; stigmata reddish, followed by a pale undulated much-curved striga, 

 several minute white dots on tiie costa, and a pale ochre subapical bar with six or seven ferruginous spots. But 

 the chief character of the species appears to consist in the different firm of the fore wings which have the apex 

 more produced and pointed. The hind wings are ochreous brown with a darker fascia and the cilia ochre. It 

 is a comparrtively rare species, which appears in the perfect state later in the season than G. Vaccinii. 

 The caterpillar feeds on the honeysuckle, according to Mr. H. Doubleday. 



Nttctua piiicornis, Borkliausen. 

 .\octua misla, Hiibner (variety). 



SPECIES 3.— GLjEA? KUBRICOSA. Plate XXX., Fig, 1,2. 



Synonymks. — Noctua ritbricosa. Wicn. Verz. ; Fabr. ; Hiibner ; , Noctua mucida, Esper. 

 Treitsclike ; Stephens (Gla-'a r. ) ; Buiiiduval (Urlhosia r.) ; fJut'nee 

 (Ttcniocampa r.); Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 11, fig. 20G. 



Noctua rufa, Hatcliett ; Hawortli. 



This interesting species measures nearly 1^ inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a deep chestnut 

 red, and very glossy ; the costa paler, with several small dark brown spots at the origin of the strigje, which are 

 but slightly indicated, and rather paler than the rest of the wing ; the apex of the costa, on tlie other hand, is of 

 the same colour as the rest of the wing, w^ith several minute white dots ; the stigmata are present, but rather 

 indistinct, the outer one with a dusky patch behind. The hind wings are reddish brown, with reddish ciha. 

 The abdomen is not depressed, as in the other species, and tlie antenua; are more hairy beneath ; a character which, 

 together with the very different habit of the caterpillar, has induced recent French Lepidopterists to remove it 

 from the preceding species of Glaja, from which it also differs in the more oblique truncation of the extremity of 

 the fore wings. The caterpillar is grey, with a brownish dorsal line, and two wliite spots on each segment ; it 

 is smooth and cylindrical. It feeds on Rumex acutus, and the moth, unlike the two preceding species, appears 

 at the end of March, frequenting bank's of nettles, but it is a rare species. Boisduval places the species in 

 Orthosia, and Guenee in Treniocampa, with which latter the vernal period of the perfect state agrees. 



