AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. I79 



Stigmata ; the anterior one round, with a pale margin, and the outer one rcniform and greyish in colour ; there is 

 also a spoar-likc, dusky jiatch towards the anal angle, and an angular one in the middle of the apical margin ; the 

 hind wings are of a dirty huff colour with an obscure transverse fascia. This is not a common species, hut is 

 occasionally taken in marshy districts near London. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXVIII. 



Insects. — Fig. 1. Miana litcrosa (llic losy minor). 



" Fill. X Miana strigilis (till- niaiWca minor). 3. The variety called Latruncula. 1. Tlie variety called ^tljiops, 



(tlic blaeliamoor). 

 " Kig. r>. Miana Inmicralis (tlic cloalied minor). 6. A pale variety. 7. The variety called Terminalis. 8. A pale 



varii'tj. 9. The variety called Rufuncula. 

 " Fig. U). Miana fascinncula (the middle-barred minor). 



" Fig. 11. Miana pnlmonaria-. 



** Fig. 12. Miana minima (the least nrinor). 



" Fig. 13. Celajna renigera (the kidney spot minor). 



" Fig. 14. Celana Haworthii (llaworlh's minor). 15. The variety called Tripnncta. Ifi. The variety called Lancea, 



of which latter there is another still more obscure variety, called Hibcrnica. 

 Plant. — Fig. 17. Penccdannm palustre (milk parsley). 

 The whole of the above insects, with the cxcepiion of M. pulnionaria>, from the collection of Mr. H. Doubleday, and M. minima, from the 

 collection of Mr. Newman, (the original specimen of llavvorih,) are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley. Mr. B., who has perhaps had more 

 experience in the arrangement of this and the neighbouring groups than any other British Entomologist, considers the genus Miana to stand 

 as in the above description of our Plate 18, viz., four distinct species, Litcrosa, Strigilis, Hnmeralis, and F.asciuncula ; with the addition, perhaps, 

 of Pulmonaria; and Minima ; but it is very doubtful whether the two insects figured under those names are properly placed in this genus. Of 

 the genus Celaina, the above arrangement is also according to the views of Mr. Bentley ; he makes only two species, Renigera and Haworthi, 

 which may probably be eventually reduced to one, as it is considered doubtful whether the insect upon which our claim to Renigera, as a British 

 species, is founded, may not be a foreign specimen. II. N. H. 



MIANA, Stw'hkns. APAMEA, Boisduv.m.. 

 This genus comprises some of the most minute sjiecies of the present family, distinguished by their filiform 

 antennJB ; those of the ni.ales being rather thickened, and finely ciliated ; the palpi short, porrected obliquely, 

 the terminal joint exposed, the head with a frontal crest, the body slender, thorax rounded, the back being 

 strongly crested, the wings of moderate size, with dark shining patches, entire edges, and nearly obsolete stigmata. 

 The caterpillars are small and vermiform, destitute of bright colours, with pale lines along the body, and which 

 feed within the stems of grasses, near tlie roots ; the chrysalides are generally buried beneath the surface of the 

 earth, and the perfect insects, which appear in the hottest months of the year, arc to be found sitting on the 

 trunks of trees. The species are extremely liable to vary. 



SPECIES 1.— MIANA LITEROSA. Plate XXXVIII., Fig. 1. 



SvNoNVME. — Noctua lilerosa, Haworth : Stephens; 111. Hausl, 3, pi. 2.5, fig. 1 ; Wood, luJ. Ent. pi. 13, fig. 273. 

 This species measures about |^th of an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a glaucous colour ; 

 the base considerably darker, with a flexuous posterior striga of a rosy hue, followed by a pale one, and with various 

 black markings in the middle of the wing, resembling letters ; the posterior stigma is placed about the middle of 

 the wing, but is almost obsolete, being distinguished only by its broken dark edging on the inside, which is 

 extended backwards, and forms the letter-like marks above mentioned, being united with the angulated jiosterior 

 dark, dusky portion of the second ordinary striga ; the black marks are, however, occasionally obsolete. The 



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