AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 249 



Buckiugliatnshire, in July, having just come out of the chrysalis, and in the act of drying its wiucs, whence 

 the ordinary Englisii name of this species. 



SPECIES 2.— CATOCALA NUPTA. Plate LV., Fig. 5. 



Sysonymes. — Phaliena Noctua Nupta, Linnaius ; Hubncr ; Ha- 

 wortli ; Donovan, 7, pi. 224 ; Albiu, pi. 80, lig. a — d ; Wilkes, pi. 10, 

 fig. 7 i Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pi. 17, fig. 440. 



Phalvena pacta, Harris, Aurelian, pi. 18, fig. g — m (but not of 

 Linuyius) ; Wilkes, pi. 37. 



Noctua concubina, Borkhausen. 



This is the most abundant species in the genus, measuring .3i inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which 

 .ire of a gray colour, thickly irroratcJ with dusky scales, forming clouds ; the four ordinary strigse are present 

 and much dontated, being of a paler colour, with dark edges ; the space between the second and third is very 

 broad ; the anterior stigma replaced by a whitish patch ; the outer stigma black, with a light border, behind 

 which is a round patch, with a dark margin ; the apical margin with a row of small black arches. The hind 

 wings bright scarlet, with an irregular, curved, black bar, extending nearly across the middle of the wing, and a 

 broad apical fimbria ; cilia white. 



The caterpillar is ashy, with dark and shady lines, and with luteous spots and streaks ; the cilia abo^e the 

 feet white ; it feeds on sallows and willows, and the moths are found flying by day, settling on the trunks of 

 those trees, palings, &c., about the beginning of August, flying off on being approached with the greatest activity. 



Phal^.na noctua PACTA, Liuuccus ; as noticed in the Synonymes, has been incorrectly introduced amongst 

 our English moths, in mistake for C. nupta. 



SPECIES 3.— CATOCALA ELOCATA. Plate LV., Fig. G. 



Synonymk iV()c<?<a e/oca/o, Esper ; Ocliscnhcimer J Curtis, Ikit. I Noctua marita, HUbner. 



Em. pi. 217 ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Em. pi. 54, fig. 55. Noctua uxor, Hubuer. 



Noctua nupta, Fabrici\i9. I 



This species measures 3^ inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a darker, more olive colour 

 than in C. nupta, the strigre being more darkly edged, whilst the stigmatic markings are more obscure, and the 

 apical row of dots are rounded ; the hind wings have the red colour less bright thau in Nupta ; the black central 

 fascia is more regularly rounded, broader, and extending to the anal angle. A single specimen of this insect was 

 in the late iMr. Blunt's collection, but Mr. Stephens states that it was " obtained direct from Oporto." The early 

 volumes of the JLagazine of Natural History contain some controversial papers on this subject. It is omitted 

 from the list of British Noctuida; by Mr. H. Doublcday. 



DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LVI. 



INSECTS. Fig. 1. Catocala Sponsa (the dark crimson undcrwing). 2. The Caterpillar. 



" Fig. 3. Calucala Promissa (tbe light crimson underwing). 15. The Caterpillar. 



' " Fig. 4. Catncala Conjuncta (the lesser crimson underwing). 



" Fig. 5. Brepha Parthcnias (the orange underwing). 6. The Caterpillar. 



Fig. 7. Brepha Notha (the light orange underwing). 8. The Female. 9. The Caterpillar. 

 " Fig. 10. Euclidia Glyphica (the Burnet). 



" Fig. 11. Euclidia Mi (tbe Shipton). 12. The Caterpillar. 



Plants Fig. 13. Quercus pcdunculata (common oak). 



The whole of the insects in this plate are from the rich ctbinet of Mr. Bentley. The caterpillars are from Hiibner ; tliat of Spunsa sligbtly 

 altered to express more clearly the flatness of the underside, and its close manner of lying upon a branch-characters common to the larvio of all 

 the red Qiiderwings. H. N. H. 



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