AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. t^. 



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transverse bar ; tlio space bcliind the stigmata forming a large pale patch, bifid towards the posterior angle of 

 the wing ; the third striga is not so much curved as in some of the preceding species, consisting of a series of 

 small pale arches edged with brown lines ; beyond tliis is a pale space, followed by the fourth striga, which is 

 not so strongly angulatcd in the middle and edged with lirown, and there is a marginal series of small dark 

 conical dots. The hind wings are brown, with a slight palo bar across the middle. Numerous varieties occur 

 in the strength of the markings. Amongst these varieties may be placed the 



Noctua Imcostiffina, Ilaworth. AYood, Ind. Ent. pi. 12, fig. 241, which agrees with the typical individuals 

 " in almost every thing, except being much lighter coloured ; and in being fulvous, or subfulvous, or rusty-fulvous 

 in every part where that is brown or black." 



Noctua dcntina, Fabr. Fore wings cinereous, brownish in the middle, with the ordinary stigmata and a bifid spot 

 of ashy colour. There is also a distinct spot on the lower margin at the base and a waved striga of yellow colour. 



The caterpillar is a pale dirty brown, with the incisions rufescent and with dorsal and lateral lines and dots 

 of black ; it feeds on the dandelion. The species is rather abundant and widely distributed. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXIV. 



Insfcts. — Fig. I. Iladcna Ocliraccj (tlic t.-iwny slu'crs). 

 " Fig. 2. Hailena I.itliorliiza (tlie early grey). 



" Fig. 3. Iladcna Protca (the lirindleil green). 4. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. .5. Hadera Cucuhali (the Campion moth). 6. TIic Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 7. Iladcna C.ipsincnla (the Lychnis moth). 8. The Caterpillar. 9 and 10. Caterpillar when vouns. 



" Fig. 11. Hadena Saponaria- (the bordered gothic). 



Plants Fi-. \2. Lychnis iiiflata (lullated Catchfiy). 



The whole of the moths figured in this plalo are from specimens sent inc by Mr. IT. Oouhleday, as also the larva of H. Capsincola. The 

 larvie of II. Cucubali and H. Protea arc from Iliibncr. — II. N. II. 



SPECIES a— II.VDENA OCHHACEA. Plate XXXIV., Fig. 1. 



SvNoNVMES. — A'octua ochracai, Ilavvorlh ; Stephens, 111. H. 2, pi. 23, fig. 3 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 12, lig. 242. 



Iladcna j^ereyriiia ? Ochsenheimer. 



This species also measures about 1 j inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which, as well as the entire insect, 

 are of a very pale clayish-bufl' colour, the fore wings varied with darker markings ; towards the base are several 

 dusky oblique lines separating the following space, which is paler than the base, and which is terminated by 

 three deep scalloped lines indicating the second striga ; the middle of the wing is darker and bears the three 

 stigmata, the two ordinary ones being pale with the centres rather darker and the edges black, and the 

 supplemental one formed of a brownish oblique patch edged with a blackish line ; beyond the stigma is a much- 

 curved row of small blackish arched lines succeeded by a subapical brownish shade, in which the fourth striga 

 undulates, the middle of which is not so strongly angulated as usual, but is marked with several arrow-headed 

 dark marks ; the hind wings are marked with a slight paler wave beyond the middle. 



Rare ; found near London, Brighton, and in Norfolk. It occurs in the winged state at the end of June. It 

 was accidentally omitted in Mr. Doublcday's list of Noctuidm published in the Entomologist for October 1842. 



SPECIES 10.— HADENA LITHORIIIZA. Plate XXXIV., Fig. 2. 

 Synonvmes. — Noctua Lilhorhiza, Borkhauscn ; Curtis ; Stephens ; | Noctua aureola, Esper. 

 Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 12, fig. 2!;i. 1 Noctua operosa, Hlibner: Ilaworth. 



This very distinct species measures rather more than ]\ inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a 



