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The eleventh variety described by Mr. Bentley agrees with the N. ocellina, of Hibner. ‘“ Anterior wings 
dusky or blackish, with a short ashy streak upon the costa, with two black transverse strigze, the first before 
the anterior stigma, the second behind the posterior ; near the hinder margin is a pale-waved striga, anterior 
stigma ocellated. 
Mr. Bentley’s 12th variety, taken near Brockenhurst in Hampshire, in September, is remarkable for its small 
size, expanding only 1 inch. The “anterior wings blackish, with a black streak at the base in the centre of 
the wing, extending beyond the anterior stigma ; posterior wings ashy, slightly margined with fuscous.” 
Mr. Bentley has also informed us that A. sagittifera is also probably another variety. 
Thus it will be seen that the variation in this species ranges from the possession of from four to no transverse 
strigee, from a large to an obsolete teliform stigma, from the possession to the want of a pale stripe upon the costa, 
and from grey to dark-brown coloured wings, sometimes dark at the base, and sometimes along the apical margin. 
It is, therefore, not very surprising that there are not two collections in London in which they are 
marked alike. 
The species is not very uncommon in the southern counties of England, as well as at Whittlesea-mere, in 
June and July. The caterpillar is grey and shining ; it feeds on the roots of grasses and low plants, hiding itself 
by day. 

SPECIES 12.—AGROTIS CUNEIGERA. Puare XXIV., Fie. 7. 
Synonymes.—Agrotis cwneigera, Stephens, Il. Haust. 2, p. 123. | Variety 2 Agrotis venosa, Stephens. (Our plate 24, fig. 8.) 
: Nociuavallgera, Haworth. Variety 2 Agrotis hortorum, Stephens. 
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Var The type of this supposed species measures 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish- 
brown colour, with the three stigmata distinct, but with the transverse strige: rather obscure, and arow of acutely 

wedge-shaped brown spots within the apical margin. There is also a brown triangular-shaped spot before, and 
another square in shape between the stigmata ; the hind wings are white with the margin and veins dusky : the 
female is more griseous in colour, without the brown spots before and between the stigmata ; and the hind wings 
are more dusky. The stigmata are extremely variable in shape; the anterior one varying from nearly trian- 
| gular to circular. 
i a) | i Found near London in July. 
Tt is with doubt that we give the A. venosa of Stephens as a variety of the preceding insect, from which it 
differs in being of a more dusky appearance, being much irrorated with dark specks, with the base of the wing 
a considerably varied with dark marks and waves, the supplemental stigma is wanting, the dark spaces ear 
ist the ordinary stigmata are here visible, a much-waved pale striga runs from the hind part of the posterior 
stigma, and there is a submarginal undulated striga preceded by black wedge-shaped marks; the body and hind 
Nit wings are like A. cuneigera, Taken in Cumberland and near Edinburgh in July. 
et | It is upon the authority of Mr. Bentley that we also give the A. hortorum of Stephens as another variety of 
hn A. cuneigera, although Mr. Stephens considered it might prove to be a suffused variety of Tritici. He describes 
the fore wings as deep dusky ash, with four transverse paler strige, the three anterior of which are edged with 
dusky, placed nearly as in Tritici; but the posterior one is less undulated, and has a row of elongated dusky or 
black streaks attached to the anterior edge, as in A. cuneigera ; on the hinder margin is a row of minute black 
spots ; the usual stigmata are faintly rufescent, margined with black ; the third is very slender, and the black 
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margins alone are visible ; the posterior wings are fuscous, with the nervures and margin darker. The body deep 
fuscous. Taken in August at Whittlesea mere. 
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