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It feeds ou various low plants. 
The chrysalis is found under the ground. 
I beg leave here to thank the Rev. Edward Horton, 
of Wick, near Worcester, an “old Bromsgrovian” school¬ 
fellow, for useful information. 
NOCTUA SOBRINA. 
Plate LYI. Figure 4. 
Localities for this species are at Rannock,in Perthshire. 
The perfect insect appears in July. 
The caterpillar is blue grey, marbled with yellowish 
white, with a dull yellowish line along the back, and 
another interrupted one of the same colour below it on 
the sides ; the side line pale greyish, edged on its upper 
margin with darker. 
The chrysalis is subterranean. 
NOCTUA NEGLECTA. 
NEGLECTED RUSTIC. 
Plate LYI. Figure 5. 
Localities for this species are York, Stockton Forest, 
Hale near Liverpool, The New Forest, Birch Wood, West 
Wickham Wood, Lyndhurst, Pembury, Weybridge, Black 
Park, Ticehurst, Plymouth, and Carlisle. 
The situations where it is found are heaths aDd heathy 
places in woods. 
The perfect insect appears in August. 
