AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. Igl 



SPECIES 4.— MIANA FASCIUNCULA. Plate XXXVIII., Fig. 10. 



SvNONYjiEs. — JVoctua fasciuncula^Hiiwavth ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Eiit., pi. 13, fig. 280. 

 Miana rununcula, Dofzel ? 



This species measures rather less than an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish colour, 

 with a broad, central, dusky bar, interrupted by the stigmata, and very much narrowed behind towards the 

 hinder margin, whore it is obsoletcly margined both before and behind with whitish ; the apex is preceded by a 

 slender, russet-coloured, waved striga ; and the cilia are reddish brown. The hind wings are blackish, with 

 white or ashy ciliaj. It varies occasionally by having tlie fore wings much paler coloured, of a reddish hoary 

 tinge, and with a reddish-brown central fascia, bearing a transverse blackisli streak, connecting the second and 

 third striga?. This is a rather common and widely dispersed species. 



Miana ru/uncula, Ilaworth, Steplieus, Wood, Ind. Ent., pi. 13, fig. 279, and our figure 9, is most probably a 

 very pale variety of this or the preceding species ; it measures about an inch in expanse. The fore wings are 

 entirely red,with two paler straight strigie in the middle, and a waved one near the apex ; but these strigse are 

 sometimes almost obsolete, and there is a marginal series of triangular dark dots. The hind wino-s are reddish- 

 brown, with the ciliffi red. 



SPECIES 5.— MIANA PULMONARIiE. Plate XXXVIII., Fig. 11. 



SvNoNVME. — NocUta Puimonarite, Hiibner; Dupouchel ; Boisduval (Var. A. furuncula). 



This species measures about an inch in the expanse of tlie fore wings, which are of a pale, ochreous, buff-colour, 

 slightly clouded with brown ; an abbreviated dusky striga before the middle of the wing, and a dusky cloud 

 across the middle, inclosing the second stigma, followed by a curved row of dusky points on the veins, indicating 

 the third striga, beyond which is another slender, dusky, curved striga, dilated on the costa ; the extreme apex 

 slightly dusky, with a row of small dark dots ; the hind wings ochreous-brown, with a pale bar across the middle, 

 but interrupted, followed by another entire one. 



Taken by Mr. H. Doubleday at Epping, and by Mr. Douglas near Warley, Essex, in July. Mr. Bentley 

 also possesses a specimen. The insect appears to be allied to the genus Acosmetia. 



SPECIES 0.— iMIANA MINIMA. Plate XXXVIII. , Fig. 12. 

 Synokywe. — Noctiia minima, Ilaworth ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. p], 13, fig. 281. 



This is the most minute of all the British species of Noctuidse, measuring only j- or -| of an inch in the 

 expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish ashy colour, with a straiglit white striga placed before the 

 middle of the wing, and intersected by fine black lines. The two ordinary stigmata are round and like spots, 

 separated by a brown patch, which readies the costa, followed by a curved white striga, similar to the preceding 

 one, and lastly a broader waved pale striga near the apex of the wing ; the cilias ashy ; the hind wings brown, 

 with white cilias. Very rare ; taken in Darenth Wood, Kent, and Whittlesea-mere. 



CEL.'ENA, Stephens. 

 This genus, which is united with the preceding by several recent authors, is characterized by its founder, 

 Mr. Stephens, by its broader fore wings, with the posterior stigmata very conspicuous, and, witli the adjoining 

 veins, pale coloured ; the thorax not crested ; the palpi densely squamose, with the terminal joint obtuse ; the 

 head with a dense tuft of hair on the crown. 



