
AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, 11] 
the second almost indistinct, a third streak behind the outer stigma is much bent, and united by a slight hook 
with the second stigma; the space between the very pale stigmata is dark; near the apical margin is a pale 
broadish stripe, bearing a row of dark triangular spots, and a few black ill-defined dots on the m 
argin itself ; the 
hind wings ochreous brown, with a dark central lunule and two dusky bars. 
Mr. Stephens’ specimen of this 
very rare insect was taken near York. The caterpillar is green with white and brown spots. 
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SPECIES 3.—LYT#A ALBIMACULA. Prater XXII, Fie. 3. 
Synonymes.— Graphiphora albimacula, Stephens ; Ill. H. 2, pl. 19, fig. 3; and App. p. 199 5 (Lyteea alb.) 
This species measures about 13 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are shining brown, “ beautifully 
shaded with rich purple, with a pale-reddish patch at the base, towards the costa; a black streak at the base, 
with a subocellated purplish spot between its tip and the inner margin, having an ovate black stiomatiform mark 
adjoining ; on the disc is an elongate fuscous black patch, acute anteriorly, and truncate posteriorly ; in this, the 
anterior stigma, which is round and white, is placed, and the posterior one at the hinder extremity ; the ordinary 
strigee are rather obsolete, but in the places of the usual hinder ones is a series of fuscous dots, united by an 
uninterrupted black longitudinal streak to the reniform stigma’ posterior wings dusky-ash and glossy, with a 
faint transverse striga, and darker border.” Taken at Whitilesea Mere, and at Ringwood, Hants, in the autumn. 


CHAREAS, Srepuens. (LUPERINA anv HADENA, p. Borspuvar, Guinéz.) 
The antennz in the males of the species, here associated together, are more or less pectinated, whilst they are 
simple in the females ; the palpi are very short, with the second joint gradually attenuated, and the apical joint 
rather elongated and exposed, the thorax not crested; the abdomen is terminated in the males by a tuft; the 
wings are generally somewhat toothed along the apical margin, the posterior pair being darker in the females 
than in the males. The larve are naked, and feed on the roots of plants ; they are thick and subvermiform, with 
dark longitudinal stripes, and the pupa state is passed under ground. 
* WINGS RATHER BROADER AND LESS DENTICULATED (LUPERINA P. BOISDUVAL). 
SPECIES 1.—CHARAAS CESPITIS. Puare XXII, Fie. 4, 5. 
Synonymes.—WVoctua cespitis, Wien Verz. ; Fabricius; Hiibner ; Curtis; (Agrotis C.) Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 8, fig. 120. 
Boisduval (Luperina C.) Noctua Hordei, Schrank. 
The expansion of the fore wings of this species varies from 14 to nearly 12 inches. They are of a blackish 
brown colour, with a short basal ashy-coloured streak, behind which is a whitish somewhat transverse one, edged 
with black ; another similar one but more curved is placed beyond the outer stigma, which, as well as the inner 
one, 1s edged with a pale line, beyond which is a pale waved streak, with a row of apical dark dots and several 
whitish costal spots ; the hind wings in the male are whitish grey, but ashy brown in the female, with an ill-defined 
row of dusky spots across the centre anda dusky border. The caterpillar is dark brown, with several pale longi- 
tudinal stripes on each side. Found in lanes in Kent, in September. Mr. Stephens in his catalogue regarded asa 
doubtful variety of this species a unique specimen obtained from the Marshamian Collection, which in his 
Illustrations he described as distinct under the name of Charzeas confinis, and which differs from the foregoing in 
the “ paler colour and narrowness of the fore wings, nearly uniformly-coloured hind wings, and slightly pectinated 
antenne.” 

