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subdorsal stripe brownish-ochreous, but little paler 

 than the colour of the back ; the spiracular stripe, 

 characteristic of the genus, and of this species in par- 

 ticular, was broad, of a light drab colour with paler 

 edges, and along its middle were situated the oval 

 spiracles, which were yellowish-drab delicately outlined 

 with black ; the belly and all the legs brownish-grey, 

 similar to the colour of the back ; the shining head of 

 the same colour, freckled with darker ; the black plate 

 on the second segment highly polished, as is also that 

 on the anal flap, on both the dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 appeared almost white ; the tubercular warty dots 

 blackish, each bearing a grey-brown hair. 



The pupa was little more than five-eighths of an 

 inch in length, of the usual Noctua shape, rather stout 

 in proportion to its length, ending in two minute 

 points at the anal tip ; it was of a dark mahogany- 

 brown colour, and very glossy, enclosed a very brittle 

 earthen cocoon one inch long by five-eighths wide, 

 lined with a slightly wrought tracery of silk threads. 

 (W. B., 9, 3, 74; E.M.M., X, 275, May, 74.) 



APAMEA UNANIM1S. 



Plate LXVII, fig. 3. 



On the 1st of March, 1868, I found on grass a larva 

 unknown to me at the time, which I figured, and on 

 the 3rd it spun up ; the moth appeared on the 5th of 

 June following, and proved to be of this species. On 

 my comparing my figure of this larva with that of 

 unanimis by Hiibner, the difference between them was 

 so great as to lead me to suppose mine could not be a 

 typical representative of the species, and I resolved 

 to wait till more larvae could be found, either to 

 prove or disprove the correctness of my supposition 

 before offering any description for publication. But 

 I can now say, after having had examples of the larvae 

 from Norfolk, Devonshire, and Hampshire, which 



