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on the body. It feeds on various plants, as the dock, plantain, tea.le, scabious, &c. It appears from .June to 

 August, and >s a rare but widely-dispersed species, chiefly occurring in the south of England, but also taken in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk. 



SPECIES 4.-HELIOTHIS SCUTOSA. Plate LIII., Fig. .5, 0. 



SvNoNYMEs.— Mjc/„a scHosa, Ilulmcr; P.abriciiis; Curtis., Brit. Ent. pi. .595 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. fig. 1672. 

 This .species has the fore wings dark brown, with the veins and a subapical striga ochreous- white ; the disk 

 of the wing with three large brown spots edged with black, representing the three stigmata, the anterior one 

 preceded and followed by ochre-white spots ; the apical margin with a row of black dots. The hind wings 

 whitish ochre, with dark veins, and a blackish central spot and marginal border, in which are two round ochreoiw 

 spots on the outside towards the middle. The caterpillar is green, with black setigerons tubercles and black lines 

 on the back and sides ; it feeds on Artemisia campestris, and the moth has occurred '• on the banks of the river 

 Caldew, a little below the village of Dalston, in -July last ; " also, on the coast not far from Skinburness, in 

 Cumberland. 



AN ART A, OcHSE.'^HEIMER. 



This genus has the terminal joint of the palpi so short as to be invisible except by denuding them ; tiie 

 antennas are alike in both sexes, and filiform ; the eyes pubescent, the thorax not crested, the fore win^s lanceolate, 

 the hind ones pale with a dai-k border. The caterpillars have sixteen feet; they are smooth and naked, with a 

 small head ; they feed on low plants. The chrysalides are enclosed in cocoons of silk mixed with trains of earth. 

 The perfect insects are of small size ; they fly by day in the sunshine. 



SPECIES 1.— ANARTA MYRTILLI. Plate LIII., Fig. 7. 



SYN0NV4MKS. — Phalana Noclna Myrlilli, LiDascus ; Fabricius; 1 Biit. Ent. pi. 14.5; Stephens; Woud, Ind. Eiif. pi. 10, fie. 411. 

 Haworth ; Donovan, 7, pi. 231 ; Harris, Expos, pi. 4, fig. e ; Curtis, | Noctua albireiia, Haworth (variety). 



This species measures rather less than an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a red-brown 

 colour, with fulvous and grayish-white slender undulating strigre, and with an irregular-shaped white spot in the 

 middle, and an obscure kidney-shaped posterior stigma; the cilia alternately spotted with white and brown; 

 hind wings pale fulvous, with a broad black margin extending all round the wing ; the cilia luteous. It varies 

 considerably in the clearness of the pale markings and in the brilliancy of the ground colour of the wings, which 

 are sometimes brown, with pale markings {N. albirena. Haw.). The caterpill.ar is green and naked, with a 

 grayish coloured head, and with numerous minute white and yellow spots, with a dusky dorsal line, and a white 

 line on each side above the feet. It feeds on heath and whortleberry, and the moth appears in June and .July ; 

 it is a very lively insect, flying over heathy places in the sunshine. It is far from uncommon, and is a widely- 

 dispersed species. 



SPECIES 2.— ANARTA CORDIGERA. Plate LIII., Fig. 8. 



Synonvmes. — Noctua cordigera,li\mnher^\ Esper; Ochsenheimer ; Dupoiicliel ; Stephens; Curtis; Woud, Ind. Ent. pi. 52, ti;:. 1(570. 



Noctua albirena^ Hubner. 



This species has the fore wings blackish-brown, with a large kidney-shaped whitish patch in the middle, 



having a dark dash in front of it extending towards the base of the wing ; the ordinary strigaj are indistinct and 



dark, the subapical one being most discernible ; the hind wings are luteous, with a blackish border narrower 



than in the preceding species. A specimen from Scotl.and is in ]\Ir. Curtis's collection. 



