48 HADENA ADUSTA. 



upper surface as above mentioned, suffused with deep 

 rose-pink ; the dorsal stripe composed of two darker 

 pink lines, confluent at the beginning of each segment, 

 forming a spot ; the subdorsal stripe bright yellow, 

 only visible on the anterior halves of the segments ; 

 the tubercular spots and two transverse streaks near 

 the end of each segment also of the bright yellow 

 ground-colour. 



Variety 2. — A dull pale yellowish-green, the dorsal 

 stripe faintly outlined with orange-red, with a spot at 

 the segmental divisions ; subdorsal line of same colour, 

 but interrupted on the hinder half of each segment ; 

 tubercular dots red, and situated on the faint reddish 

 outlines of diamonds, which are very delicately 

 freckled within ; spiracles as in the others, white 

 ringed with black. (W. B., 1867 ; E.M.M., August, 

 1867, IV, 62.) 



Hadena protea. 

 Plate XCIII, fig. 2. 



On the 7th of November, 1882, I had a dozen eggs 

 and one of H. protea from Messrs J. and W. Davis, of 

 Dartford. They were laid on a piece of chip, side by 

 side in an irregular group. 



The egg is of medium Noctua size, rounded above 

 and a little depressed beneath, and yellowish when first 

 laid, judging from an infertile egg amongst them. The 

 thirteen fertile eggs when I received them were of a deep 

 rich brown inclining to chocolate or russet-brown, 

 having eight stout ribs, long and of a much paler tint 

 of the same, almost meeting at the top and forming 

 a star-like pattern, and between each of them low down 

 on the side is a short rib of the same tint. During the 

 winter they became rather dingier, and on the 1st of 

 May of a drab colour, and on the 2nd a paler tint of 

 drab, and by noon one hatched, three more by next 



