AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. I75 



rest of the wing, with a dusky margin, thu supplemental one being almost obliterated ; the posterior one marked 

 at its hinder outer angle with two distinct, shining, whitish specks. Beyond this is the curved stricra, formed of 

 iv geminated row of dusky arches, followed at some distance by the subapical striga, which is formed of a row of 

 interrupted, scarcely angulatcd, or waved yellowish spots. The hind wings are ashy ochre-coloured, with the 

 margin darker. Found in Cumberland, by Mv. Weaver, in August. 



SI'KCIES 8.— .MAMESTR.\ CHENOPODII. Plate XXXVI., Fig. 1.3, U. 



RVNONYMES.— jVoc/ua ChenopoJii, Wicn. Vciz., F.aliiicius ; Iliil.iu-r; Ticitsclike ; Ilaworth ; Albin, pi. 29, fig. 44 e— d ; Stephens; Wood, 



liid. Knt., pi. 12, fig. 257. 



This common species measures rather less than 1 }, inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which in their 

 general style of colouring closely resemble the last described species, being of an ashy-brown colour varied with 

 dark shades, md having the various stigmata and striga; distinct, although not brightly coloured ; the costa is 

 marked with various dusky dots, as well as with several p.ile specks towards the apex, as in the majority of the 

 allied species. The anterior stigma is small, and edged with a black ring ; the outer one is dusky, margined 

 with black, and ashy-coloured, and the supplemental stigma is present, and with a black margin ; beyond the 

 second stigma is a pale striga edged within with a curved row of blackish lunules, and there is a very distinct, 

 whitish, slender, subapical striga, which is very strongly dentate in the middle ; the margin itself is marked with 

 a row o£ small black dots ; the hind wings are pale, dirty, ashy-coloured at the base, with a ccntnal dot ; the veins 

 and the posterior margin duskj'. 



The caterpillar is green, with a darker dorsal longitudinal stripe, and an interrupted red line at the side ; it 

 feeds on various culinary vegetables in the autumn ; the moth appearing in the middle of the following summer, 

 bein" one of our most abundant insects. 



SPECIES 9.— M.VMESTR.\ ANCEPS. Plate XXXVI., Fig. 15. 

 SvNONVME. — Mamexira anceps, Dupoochel, vol. vii., part 1, plate cvii., fig. 5. 



The specimen which Jlr. Stephens has allowed us to figure from his cabinet, and which he considers to be 

 specifically identical with the anceps of Duponchel, measures 1 ■- inch in the expanse of the fore wingsi 

 which in their colours and the disposition of their markings very much resemble those of 31. albicolon, being of a 

 dingy greyish brown colour, considerably mottled with d.arker shades; the basal striga indicated by a paler 

 double curved bar, edged with small black curves ; the other strigac are almost obsolete, except the apical one, 

 which is pale, narrow, and dentated, and not exhibiting the strong angulations in the middle, with several conical 

 darker patches resting upon it within in the middle. - The anterior stigma is almost obsolete, with a black oval 

 ring behind it, indicating the supplemental stigma ; the posterior stigma is ear-shaped and pale, with a brown 

 crescent in the middle, its outer part being white. The apical margin has a row of small black dots preceding 

 the cilia. The hind wings are pale grey at the base, with a broad dusky margin preceded by a slender dusky 

 stripe beyond the middle ; and with a central lunule. 



The specimen in Mr. Stephens' collection was taken at Colchester by Mr. Barnes. 



SPECIES 10.— MAMESTRA PERSICARI.^. Plate XXXVI., Fig. 11, 12. 



SvsoNVMES jVoc<!(aP<;rstcnn'«,Liniiicus; Albin,p.l77,fig.a— d; 1 Hawortli; Ticitsclike; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., pi. 12, fig. 258. 



Harris Aurelian, pi. 24, fig. a — e; Hiibner; Donovan 9, pi. 317; | Phulana sambuci, li\xin.i«\c. 



This very distinct, handsome, and abundant species measures from 1^ to If inch in the expansion of the fore 

 wings, which are of a shining black colour, with the costa marked with several darker spots, and the disc varied 



