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insect, are of a shining brown colour, slightly tinged with coppery. Near the base of the wing is a pale 
angulated striga, and another undulated one before the anterior stigma. These strige are almost obsolete, being 
chiefly visible by their dark slender edging. The stigmata are of the same colour as the rest of the wing, and 
edged slenderly with black, the anterior one being connected by a slender line with the preceding stigma (which 
is open in front) ; the posterior stigma is marked behind with a small angulated patch of black. Beyond this 
stigma is a very curved striga formed of very delicate black arches, sometimes almost obliterated ; half-way 
between which and the margin is a dusky bar, and there is a slight row of blackish triangular marginal dots ; a 
black patch behind the anterior stigma indicates the place of the supplemental one ; the costa is marked with 
several pale and black oblique dots ; the hind wings and abdomen are scarcely paler than the front ones. The 
caterpillar is pale brown, with two rows of black patches along the back, and a yellow line on each side above 
the feet. It feeds on low plants and under decayed bark, and undergoes its transformation in May, and the 
moth appears in July. It occurs not uncommonly in various parts of the South of England. 

SPECIES 9.—GRAPHIPHORA BRUNNEA. Puarte XXV., Fie. 11. 
Noctua lucifera, Esper. 
Noctua Fragarie, Borkhausen. 
Syvnonymes.— Noctua brunnea, Wien. Verz.; Fabricius ; Hubner ; 
Haworth ; Treitschke ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 9, fig. 159 ; 
Boisduval (Noctua b.) 
This handsome species varies from 13 to 1% inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are of a rich 
purplish or very dark brown, with a double dark abbreviated striga at the base, a nearly straight bar preceding 
the anterior stigma, which is of the same colour as the rest of the wing, slightly margined with luteous and 
black, and followed by a nearly quadrate, dark, liver brown patch, extending to the costa; the second stigma 
is yellowish, shaded with brown in the middle, followed at a short distance by a darker bar, and a large patch 
extending to the costa, but terminating before the apex. In some specimens the ordinary strigz are rather more 
distinct ; the one beyond the posterior stigma being formed of numerous small blackish arches inclosing a pale 
fascia, succeeded by a broader, posteriorly irregular, uniformly brown fascia. There are also the rudiments of 
a small black supplemental stigma behind the ordinary basal one. 
lighter at the tip ; with the cilia, as well as the sides and tip of the abdomen, rosy brown. The caterpillar is 
The hind wings are paler brown, slightly 
found in the spring under broad-leaved plants, its food consisting of low-growing weeds. It is naked, and of 
a coffee brown colour ; the head black, with two white stripes; the back with a white longitudinal line, and 
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the sides with lateral stripes; each segment with two dark brown lines. The moth appears at the end of July. 
Not rare; found inthe woods round London and elsewhere. Perth, Mr. Douglas. 

SPECIES 10.—GRAPHIPHORA CANDELISEQUA? Puare XXVI., Fic. 12, 13. 
Synonyme.—Noctua Candelisequa ? Wien. Verz. ; Hiibner; Treitschke ; Stephens; 
(Noctua c. ) 
Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 9, fig. 160; Boisduval 
This species measures 13 inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are of a red brown colour irrorated 
with glaucous, the dusky strigze occasionally very indistinct ; the first abbreviated behind, succeeded by a pale 
dot ; a second undulated before the anterior stigma ; another dentated beyond the outer stigma, succeeded by a 
pater one, slightly undulated : the stigmata are pale luteous brown, edged with a dusky line, and greyish in the 
middle. ‘There is also a dusky dot behind the anterior stigma in the place of the supplemental one, and there 
is a row of marginal black spots; the hind wings are luteous brown, with the margin darker. ‘The ciliz are 
le reddish. ‘Tl i iliati 
pale reddish. 1e antenne are exceedingly slender, with the ciliations scarcely perceptible. The abdomen is 
pale luteous brown. 

