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colour with pale buff or rosy purplish tints, with numerous flexuous whitish streaks across the pee bordered with 
black, forming dots on the veins, and with a row of apical dusky spots ; the stigmata are large, enti, and dusky, 
with pale margins, with a third stigma indicated by two black streaks behind the former. The hind wings pale 
straw-colour, with a broad dusky margin narrowed towards the anal angle, and with several small pale arched 
dots along the edge. The caterpillar is whitish grey with a dark line down the back. - feeds on low plants 
and grasses, as well as on the goat’s-beard in the autumn and spring, and the moth appears in June and July. 


DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXII. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Lytea umbrosa (the six-striped Rustic). 
od Fig. 2. Lytaa leucographa. 
sie Fig. 3. Lytea albimacula. 
~ Fig. 4, Chareas Cespitis. 5, The Caterpillar. 
ee Fig. 6. Chareas fusca (the barred feathered Rustic). 
* Fig. 7. Chareeas nigra (the black Rustic). 
td Fig. 8. Cerapteryx Grarinis (the antler moth), 
< Fig. 9. Rusina ferruginea (the brown feathered Rustic). 
Prants.—Fig. 10. Avena fatua (wild Oat-grass). 
- Fig. 11. Briza media (common Quaking-grass). 
Lytza umbrosa, R. ferruginea, and C. Graminis are from specimens for which I am indebted to’ Mr. H. Doubleday. L. leucographa, 
L. albimacula, L. nigra, and C. fusca are from the cabinet of Mr. Stephens. C. Cespitis is from the British Museum, and its larva from 
nial : ed in i ki ic ‘ly i it another 
Hubner. The female of C. Graminis is sometimes much larger and more clouded in its markings, which formerly led some to suppose it an 
species—but I have thought it too well known now to require a figure. H. N. H. 
LYTAlA, Srepnens. (NOCTUA, vp. Borspuvar, Guintz.) 
The antennz in this genus are robust and serrated and ciliated in the males, but simple in the females ; 
the thorax is short, and the abdomen short, slender, and tufted ; the wings round at the base and glossy; the 
basal joints of the palpi clothed with long, loose scales exposing the apical joint ; the under wings have a light, 
central, transverse streak, a central spot, and a broad, rather darkened apical margin. 

SPECIES 1.—LYTAA UMBROSA. Puarr XXII., Fie. 1. 
Synonymes.— Noctua umbrosa, Hiibner; Treitschke ; Godart ; Boisduval ; 
Guénée ; (Noctua u.) Stephens; (Lytexa u.) Wood, Ind. 
Ent., pl. 8, fig. 118. 
Noctua sexstrigata, Haworth. 
This species measures from 11 to 1% inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which, as well as the head and 
thorax, are of a red-brown colour, the former with three slender, dark, undulated streaks between the base and 
the two stigmata, which are separated from each other by an ill-defined brown bar, 
dark, curved line, then a brown cloud, and a slender apical d 
red brown and shining, the latter with a slender d 
margin. 
and are followed by a slender 
ark streak ; the abdomen and hind wings are pale 
ark stripe below the middle, and a broad, ill-defined, brown 
It is rather rare, although widely distributed, occurring in July 
and August. 
greyish white, with a dusky stripe on each side above. 
The caterpillar is 

SPECIES 2.—LYT AMA LEUCOGRAPHA. Puarte XXII., Fie. 2. 
Synonymes.— Noctua leucographa, Hiibner ; 
Stephens, Ill. 2, p. 
199; Treitschke ; 
Boisduval ; Guénée ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl, 8, fig. 119. 
This species measures 
Noctua lidia, Hiibner? Treitschke 3 Boisduval. 
Agrotis agathina, Curtis, MSS. 
13 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of 
a pale-brown colour, varied on 
the costa with pale buff, and on the hind part of the disc with reddish ; 
near the base are two dark streaks, 
