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white, with a broader dusky margin than in the preceding. The caterpillar is slaty or ash-coloured, with 

 numerous black spots arranged in longitudinal lines, and with a rather broad dorsal and lateral yellow line. It 

 feeds on tansy, wormwood, chamomile, &c., and the moth appears in June and September, according to 

 Boisduval, but Stephens gives the end of July. It is a rather rare, but widely dispersed species. 



SPECIES 11.— CUCULLIA LACTUC^. Plate XLIX., Fig. 10, 11. 



fig. 3()8, a—e ; Duponrhd, pi. 12G, f. 2. 

 Noctua lucifuga, Hubner, fig. 262. 



Synonymes. — Noctua LactuciB^ "Wien. Vcrz. ; Fabr. ; Ocbscu- 

 heimer ; Hawortn ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent, jil. 16, fig. 384 ; Rosel^ 

 t. 1, p. 442, fig. 1—5 i Hubner, larv., 4, pi. 222, fig. 1 o ; Engramelle, 



This species measures nearly two inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a rather dark-grayish 

 or slate colour, relieved by paler gray shades, and with a reddish, obscure spot towards the centre, and various 

 streaks and angulated slender lines of brownish-black ; the apex with several pale slender lines ; the inner margin 

 deep-ashy brown, with several pale and dusky waved streaks ; the apical margin with a slender interrupted black 

 line ; the hind wings brown, with the base rather paler ; the veins dusky. The caterpillar is yellow, vdth a 

 row of red dots down the middle of the back, and each segment with two large black patches on each side, as 

 well as several small black dots above the feet ; the head black, with a yellow slender line down the face. It 

 feeds on various species of sonchus, lettuce, &c. ; and the moth appears in July. Taken, rarely, in the woods 

 round London as well as in Yorkshire. 



SPECIES 12.— CUCULLIA LUCIFUGA. Plate XLIX., Fig. 12,1.3, 17. 



SvNONTME. — Noctua lucifuga, Wien. Verz. ; Ochsenliciuier; Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 16, fi2..383 ; Rosel, v. 1, pi. 25, fig. 



1, 2, 4, 5 ; V. 3, pi. 71, fig. 10 ; Hubner, larv,-c, pi. 223, 1 o, 6 ; Engramelle, t. 6, pi. 248, fig. 3G9 a. 



This species measures two inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a slaty-brown colour, with 

 black longitudinal lines, streaks, and veins ; the costa pale at the base and beyond the middle, with several small 

 whitisli spots ; the apical margin also with longitudinal whitish lines edged with gray ; the disk indistinctly 

 dotted ; the apical margin with a transverse ashy-white streak ; hind wings deep ashy-brown ; the cilia pale. 

 The caterpillar is dark-greenish or ashy-colour, with numerous black spots, some of wliich form a row on each 

 side of the back, which is red-brown down the middle, and at the sides, the latter bordered by a slender whitish 

 line above the feet. The perfect insect appears in July, and is comparatively rare, altliough frequenting the 

 same localities as the last species. 



SPECIES 1-3.— CUCULLIA CHAMOMILLiE. Plate XLIX., Fig. 14, 15. 



Synonymes. — Noctua Chamomil.'ce, Wien. Verz.; Fabricius ; I Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 16, fig. 385. 

 Hubner; Esper ; Treitschke; Boisduval; Haworth ; Stephens; | JVoc<«a/mino, Haworth (a dark variety). 



This species varies from H to Ij inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a much darker ashy- 

 colour than the preceding species, with the markings more clouded and indistinct ; the strias being very slender ; 

 the spaces between them along the apical margin of the wing being longitudinally striped with whiti.sh and ashy ; 

 the base with a distinct black streak terminated in a deeply angulated pale patch ; the costa is marked with 

 several pale dots, and the pale mark beyond the middle of the inner margin, is deeply angulated ; the hind wings 

 are deep brown, with the base rather paler ; the males being paler coloured than the females. The caterpillar is 

 of an ashy-buif colour, with two curved brown streaks on each side of each segment. It feeds on chamomile 

 flowers ; and the moth appears at the end of May and in -June. This is a rare species, but is found in various 

 places near London, Birch Wood, Putney Heath, and Wimbledon Common, also in Essex, Hampshire, and 

 Devonshire. 



