EED UNDERWING. 
CcUocala Nupta. 
PLATE XXVI. Fig. 2. 
Plial. Noct. Nupta, Linn. ; Don. vii. PI. 224.— Red Under- 
■wing, Harris' Aurel. PI. 18.— Hemigeometra Nupta, Ha- 
tvoiihi 268. 
Extent of the wings about three inches or up- 
wards ; the surface of the upper pair dark grey, 
with transTcrse wared streaks and spots of brown 
and obscure yellow, the hinder border wdth a series 
of transverse lunulated spots, and two waved dusky 
lines on the fringe. The underwings are of a deep 
and beautiful blood-red inclining to carmine, with 
a curved sinuated band of deep black near the 
middle, which tapers and disappears before reaching 
the inner edge of the wing, and a broad marginal 
band sinuated internally; the fringe pine white, 
with vestiges of ferruginous spots at the base. The 
thorax and abdomen are brownish-grey above, but 
white beneath ; the legs brown, ringed nith white 
on the tarsi. The under side of the upper wings is 
black, ndth a faint bluish play of colour, and three 
white transverse bands, the central one abbreviated, 
