Noctua calcatrippe-, Viewcg. 

 Ph. Noct. reticulata, Villars. 

 Noctua maryinosa, Hiiworth. 



Igg BRITISH MOTHS 



appears in the months of June and September, being probably clonble-broodcd. It is of common occurrence, and 

 is widely distributed. 



SPECIES 14.— HADENA SAPONARIiE. Plate XXXIV., Fig. 11. 



SvNoNYMEs. — Noctua SaponaritB, Borkliauscn ; Treitsclike ; Ste- 

 phens; Esper; Godart ; Wood, laj. Eut. i>\. 12, fig. 246. 

 Noctaa typica, Hiibncr. 



This beautiful and very distinct species measures rather more than lA inch in the expanse of the fore wings, 

 which are of a bright-brown colour, the veins, as well as the markings, of a clear buff; the costa has several 

 slight angulated black lines indicating the origin of the pale strigre, and the throe principal veins are broadly 

 pale ; near the base of the wing is an angulated interrupted striga, edged with a black line ; beyond which is the 

 second striga, forming a regular curve, edged outwardly with black, the space between it and the anterior stigma 

 forming a dark triangular patch; this is of an oval form, and placed rather obliquely, with the margin paler; 

 the space between it and the next stigma is dark-brown, and the latter forms a pale arch, emitting several black 

 lines behind ; the third striga is not much curved, except towards the costa, and is ornamented with a row of 

 small dark arches. The space between the third and fourth strigfe consists of alternate dark and light longi- 

 tudinal dashes, the fourth striga being but very little angulated ; on the margin of the wing at the base of the 

 cilia is a row of conical black dots, and the cilia is brown, interrupted by pale lines ; the hind wings are pale 

 buff, with the margin dusky on the underside ; the wings are ])ale, with a central black spot, and several 

 submarginal dark stripes. 



The caterpillar is to be found in July and August on Saponaria officinalis, various species of Dianthus, and 

 Cucubalus, &c. It is of a clear green colour, without any markings ; the head greenish-brown, and the two 

 anterior segments with a greenish-brown patch. The moth appears in the middle of the following summer. 



Treitsclike places this species at the head of the genus Hadcna, and Stephens at the end. Both in its 

 markings and larva state it, however, differs from the rest of the genus ; and Guenee separates it, and an allied 

 continental species, under the generic name of Neuria (from the pale veining of the wings) ; whilst by Boisduval 

 it is formed into the eighth section of Hadena. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXV. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. HcUopliobus popularis (the feathered gothic). 



** Fig. 2. Helio])hobus leucophaus (the fcatliercd ear). 3. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 4. Euplcxia lucipara (the small angle shades). 5. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 6. Hama aliena (the large nutmeg). 



" Fig. 7. llama basilinea (the rustic shoulder-knot). 8. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 9. Hama Tcstacea (the lesser flounced rustic). 



" Fig. 10. Hama connesa (the union rustic). 



Plants. — Fig. 11. Eriphorum alpinnm (Alpine Cotton-grass). 

 The whole of the moths figured in this plate are from specimens sent me by Mr. H. Douhleday, with the exception of H. Leucopha?us, which 

 is from the specimen in the British Museum. The caterpillars of H. Leucophasus and II. basilinea are from Hiibner ; that of E. lucipara from 

 Sepp.— H. N. H. 



HELIOPIiOBUS, BoisDQVAL, Stephens. 

 The species oi this genus are at once distinguished, by having the antennte in the males strongly bipectinated, 

 whence Mr. Haworth and other authors described the species as belonging to the old genus Bombyx. They 

 are moreover distinguished by their longitudinally striped caterpillars, from the species of Hadena last described. 



