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This insect has much of the habit of the Humming-Bird Hawk Moth ; frequenting 

 gardens, and hovering over flowers, from which it extracts the honey by means of its 

 long and spiral tongue. 



N^ENIA TYPICA. THE DARK GOTHIC MOTH. 



Plate XXII. fig. d—g. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Noct.) Typica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 857. Albin's Ins. pi. fig. 21. a—d. 

 Noctua Venosa, Hubner. 

 Nsenia Typica, Stephens. 

 Mania Typica, Treitsch/ce. 



Upper Side. The antennae are like threads. The thorax and abdomen are brown, crested 

 with tufts of hair. The superior wings are brown, and divided by white lines into small squarish 

 compartments, some of them appearing like arches. The inferior wings are brown and plain. 



The under side is pale brown, having some darkish strokes crossing the wings ; the tongue is 

 spiral. The upper side is seen at (f), and the under side at (g). 



The caterpillars are found the beginning of April, at the roots of nettles, or the bottom of 

 the stalks of water betony, which grows against banks : when full fed they appear as at (d) ; and 

 change into chrysalides, in a web, on the surface of the earth, the beginning of May ; and the 

 moths appear in one month after. The chrysalis is shewn at (c). 



Expansion of the wings one inch and a half. 





HEPIALUS SYLVINUS. THE LARGE ORANGE, OR EVENING SWIFT MOTH. 



Plate XXII. fig. %—m. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Noct.) Sylvina, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 834. 



Hepialus Sylvinus, Ochsenheimer, Stephens. Curtis Brit. Ent. pi. 185. Duncan Brit. 



Moths, pi. 14. fig. 1. 

 Hepialus Lupulinus, Hubner, Haworth. 

 Golden Swift, Harris's Exposition, pi. 4. fig./. 

 Large Evening Swift, Ditto, pi. 13. fig. 6. 



Phalsena (Noct.) Hecta, Harris's Aurelian, \st edit, (sed nee Linn.) 

 Hepialus Crux, Fabricius. 



Upper Side. The antennae are very short, scarcely perceptible. The thorax and abdomen 

 appear of a yellow brown, covered with ragged hair. The wings are of a yellow brown colour : 

 the superior have a few longish white spots, which lie transversely. The female is seen at (Z), and 

 the male at (m) : their wings appear almost bare of farina. 



The caterpillars are naked, and of a cream colour, having a red head. They feed under 

 ground, on the roots of grass. They become full fed about the end of April, when they appear 

 as at (i) ; and change to the chrysalis in a slight web, which is exactly described at (m) ; and 

 the moths appear the end of May. 



Expansion of the wings one inch. 



COCCINELLA 7-TUNCTATA. THE SEVEN-SPOTTED LADY COW, OR LADY 



BEETLE. 



Plate XXII. fig. n—t. 



Synonyms, Coccinella 7-punctata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 581. Donovan Brit.Ins. 2. pi. 39* fig. 5. & 

 pi. 40. fig. 1. Wood Linn. Genera* pi. 10. 





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