L E PI DO P T E RA. 
NOCTUA DAM A. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae tapering gradually from the bafe: wings deflefted when at reft. Fly by night. 
* Noctua. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thotax fmooth. wings defiedted, 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. Syjl. 
T. 3. p. 2 . p. 2 g. Sp. 69 .—UNFIGURED. 
Fabricius refers to the Bankfian cabinet for Nodtua Dama, and it is from the fpecimen defcribed by 
that author our figure is taken. We alfo have lately become pofleffed of this rare fpecies from the 
cabinet of Mr. Drury. 
NOCTUA CARIC.E. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Thorax fmooth: wings defledted, anterior ones cinereous, with white ftreaks, and a white dot in the 
middle; bafe fulvous, with five black dots. 
Noctua Caricje : laevis alis deflexis cinereis: ftriis pundtoque medio albis, baft fulvis: pundtis quinque 
atris. Fair. Ent. Syjt. T. 3. p. 2. p. 27 . Sp. 63. 
The above variety of Nodtua 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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