246 ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 



lino towards the base; broad radiating dashes of brown upon the nervines from the 

 base backwards, and reaching the posterior margin : posterior edge slightly scolloped. 



Female : Primaries mottled and dotted with cream-color, centrally banded with brown 

 and cream-color, which lias a cream-colored oblong spot towards the upper margin ; 

 below, it has waved black coalescing spots : upon the margin, two large brown spots 

 with cream-colored spots. The secondaries exhibit a similar pattern ; the brown is 

 placed upon the base and posterior margin, with cream and black angular spots 

 within. Body brown, with a row of spots down the abdomen : the posterior third of 

 the abdomen has the sides cream-colored, and spotted with buffer brown. 



Caterpillar a looper, brown ringed with black at each joint, the last with yellow, and 

 striped on the side with white. It is two inches long, and has the habit of fixing itself 

 in an oblique position. Feeds upon the black oak : it spins its cocoon on the ground 

 in May or June. 



Cocoon brown, and about one inch in length. 



Noctua (Acontia) nundina. ( Plate xlii, fig. 7.) 



Autenn?e filiform, reddish brown : tongue coiled spirally : head and thorax ash-color. 

 Anterior wings greenish, faintly marked with brownish, and with a darker angular 

 mark placed towards the outer angle. Posterior wings silvery white, marked with 

 faint discoidal spots, and bordered with a light brown. 

 Beneath, the anterior wings are silvery white, indistinctly bordered with brown, with two 

 dark spots just opposite the single dark spot on the upper side. Posterior wings sil- 

 very white : oblong brown spots appear as on the upper side. 



Erebus edusa ( Latreille). Phalccna ( Drury). ( Plate xlii, fig. 3.) 



Upper side : Antenna? filiform, sandy brown, deeper color towards the margin. Anterior 

 wings ornamented with two large bluish white spots upon the outer margin, and 

 si veral crooked spots on or near the basal part. Posterior wings marked with one 

 latge oval spot on the posterior half, and margined with brown dots : edges crenate. 



Under side brown ; but the anterior wings are marked with two whitish spots placed 

 upon the external edges, one near the tip, the other at the lower angle : they are also 

 crossed by a whitish bar one-fourth of an inch from the body, and a small white spot 

 appears next the shoulders. Posterior wings brown, marked by a whitish oblong spot 

 placed along tin- external edges : cilia brown. Underside, paler beneath, and marked 

 fl ith obscure dark spots. 



