AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. jgy 



by a white abbreviated striga resting upon a dark brown patch ; the apical portion of the wing is paler than the 

 centre, and jirottily mottled with brown and green patches, and several acute black marks towards the anal angle. 

 Tiie hind wings are pale brown, with sliglitly indented slender dusky streaks across them beyond the middle. 



The caterpillar feeds on the whitethorn, and is found in Jlay ; it is of a brown colour, with the sides and 

 belly luteous : it is varied with black and white, and has a protuberance near the extremity of tlie body. Tlie 

 moth flies in September and October, but it is not an abundant though widely dispersed species. 



SPECIES 3.— MISELIA COMPTA. Plate XXXIX., Fig. 15. 



Synonvmes. — Noctua comptu, "NVicn. Vcrz. ; Fabr. ; HUbuer ; 

 Haworlli ; Slcpbcns ; Woo.l, Iml. ICm. pi. 13. lig. 294. 

 Ph. Noel, trattsversalis, Villcis. 



Afiselia comta, Ochsenheimer. 



Plial. Noel. X-scriplum, Sowcrby ; Brit. Misc., tab. 55 



DiaiithiBcia conspersa ? BoisJuval ; Doublcday. 



This species measures ratlier loss than lA inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a brown colour, 

 varied with white spots and black markings, the base and middle of the wing being more regularly fasciated with 

 white, the anterior stigma forming part of the middle fascia, the space between the two ordinary stigmata being 

 marked with a black N (or occasionally X) ; towards the apical margin is a very much waved and dentated 

 striga, which is dilated at the apex into a small trilobed patch. The hind wings are brown, with the base paler. 

 The caterpillar is gray, with a row of brownish spots on the back. It feeds on Lychnis dioica, and the moth 

 appears in June ; it is not a common sj)ecics, although it has been occasionally found on palings at Darenth Wood, 

 Kent. 



SPECIES 4.— MISELIA ALBIMACULA. Plate XXXIX., Fig. 10. 



SvNONYMES. — Noclua alljimacu!a,hoMvMsen: Triitsrlike ; Ste- I Noclua consorta. Huhner. 

 phens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 13, fig. 304. Noclua cumpla, Esper. 



Noctna concinna, HUbiicr ; Ochsenheimer ; Curtis. I 



This specit^s is about the same size as the preceding, with the fore wings of a rich, junkish. olive-brown, 

 varied with white spots and black markings ; at the base of the wings is a white spot, through which runs the 

 anterior dark striga ; the second and third striga; aro white, and very much dentated, and edged with black ; 

 the anterior stio'ma is white, close behind which is a white patch, and the outer stigma is whitish, with a dusky 

 centre ; the subapical striga is white and undulated, and is followed by a slender, interrupted, dusky line ; tlie 

 cilia is white, spotted with black ; the liind wings yellowish-brown, witli a dark border, and two pale dots 

 towards the anal angle. This species is also unique in the British IMuseum, the specimen having been found by 

 the late Mr. Bydder on a post near Birch Wood, Kent. Boisduval gives June as the time of its appearance in 



the perfect state. 



SPECIES 5.— MISELIA APRILINA. Plate XXXIX., Fig. 13, 14. 



Synon-vmes.— Pft. Noct. aprilina, Linnseus; Hawortli ; Treitscbke; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pi. 13, fig. 293. 

 Noclua runica, Fabricius; Hiibner; Donovan, 10, pi. 354, f. 1. 

 This fine species measures about If inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a very pale green 

 colour, varied with black markings, the costa having about ten small ones placed more or less obliquely ; tlure 

 are several black patches at the base, followed by a nearly transverse white striga edged behind with black ; 

 the stigmata are white, with the centre clouded with greenish, and edged with black, the outer one being very 

 much bent; an irregular and interrupted black fascia running between the stigmata, and extended to the hind 

 margin of the wing ; beyond the stigmata is a much curved row of slender white lunules, edged within with 

 black, succeeded by a row of small, black, angulated marks, edged with white, and a marginal series of triangular 



