L E P IDO PT E RA. 
NOCTUA DAM A. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae tapering gradually from the bafe: wings deflefted when at reft. Fly by night. 
* Noctua. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thorax fmooth : wings deflefted, fufcous, with white ftreaks, pofterior wings whitifti with a black border. 
Noctua Dama: laevibus alis deflexis fufcis albo ftriatis, pofticis albis: margine nigro. Fair. Ent, Sy[/l, 
T. 3. p. 2. p. 29. Sp. 69- — UNFIGURED. 
Fabricius refers to the Bankfian cabinet for No6lua Damaj and it is from the fpecimen defcribed by 
that author our figure is taken. We alfo have lately become polfefled of this rare fpecies from the 
cabinet of Mr. Drury. 
NOCTUA CARIC^. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thorax fmooth : wings defledted, anterior ones cinereous, with white ftreaks, and a white dot in the 
middle j bafe fulvous, with five black dots. 
Noctua Caric,® : laevis alis deflexis cinereis: ftriis pundtoque medio albis, ball fulvis: pundtis quinque 
atris. Fair. Ent. Svji. T.3. p.2. p.27. Sp.6'3. 
The above variety of Noftua Caricae, for it is certainly nothing more, is introduced upon the authority 
of Mr. Francillon, who received the individual fpecimen from which our figure is taken, together with 
the two following fpecies, from New Holland, We conceive it proper to ftate this circumftance explicitly 
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