AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 129 
The caterpillar is described by Treitschke ‘as of a blackish brown, striped with reddish and white, with a 
reddish yellow head, and with small black lines at the sides of the back. Mr. Stephens reared a specimen, 
which he gives as identical with the Candelisequa, from a caterpillar found at Darenth Wood, Kent, in May, 
the moth appearing in July. 

SPECIES 11.—GRAPHIPHORA TRISTIGMA. Prater XXV., Fre. 10, 
S a = . 4 . woofs on + ed “Ato , ; ; i] 
SynonyMEs.—Graphiphora tristigma, Ochsenheimer ; Treitschke ; Noctua ditrapezium, Borkhausen ; Hiibner, Noct., fig. 115. 
Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 10, fig. 161 ; Boisduyal, Ind. Meth., | Noctua rhomboidea, Esper ? 
p- 105 (Noctua tr.). | 
This species measures rather more than 15 inch in the expanse of the fore wings. It has much of the 
character and appearance of Gr. brunnea, the fore wings and body being of a dark rich purplish brown colour, 
varied with strigee as in that species; close to the base of the wings is a black spot of variable form and size ; 
another black patch is placed immediately before the basal stioma, and extends backwards ; and there is a third 
thomboidal spot, of the same colour, between the stigmata, both of which are of a brown colour, thus differing 
from Gr. brunnea ; beyond the second stigma is a narrow and much curved pale striga, followed by a broader 
irregular dark one, the succeeding space being of the ground colour of the wings, minutely speckled with ochre 
colour. The hind wings are pale grey-brown, with the hind margin darker ; the cilie of all the wings are rosy 
brown. Mr. Humphreys has observed that the anterior tarsi are annulated with black and white, whereas they 
are light brown in Gr. brunnea, with the last joint black. 
The caterpillar closely resembles that of Gr. triangulum. On each side, the back is marked with a blackish 
line, bordered by a white line on each side ; above the feet there also runs a reddish line. It is said by Treitschke 
to feed on the Leontodon Taraxacum. The moth appears in July and August, and has been taken (but by no 
means commonly) at Darenth, Ripley, and Epping. Mr. H. Doubleday mentions its apparent identity with 
the Gr. rhomboidea of Ochsenheimer, but Boisduval follows Stephens in giving them as distinct. 


DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXVI. 
Insects. —Fig. 1. Graphiphora festiva (the ingrailed clay). 2. The Caterpillar. 
i: Fig. 3. Graphiphora triangulum (the double square spot). 
es Fig. 4. Graphiphora C. nigrum (the setaceous hebrew character). 5. The Caterpillar. 
ss Fig. 6. Graphiphora bella (the small square spot). 
aS Fig. 7. Graphiphora plecta (the flame shoulder). 8. The Caterpillar. 
- Fig. 9. Graphiphora lunulina, a female (the crescent-striped ). 
a Fig. 10. Graphiphora musiva (the light-edged clay). 11. The Caterpillar. 
” Fig. 12. Graphiphora candelisequa (the brown clay). 13. The Caterpillar. 
S Fig. 14. Graphiphora depuncta. 
Prants.—Fig. 15. Cichorium Intybus (wild Succory). 
* Fig. 16. Arrhenatherum arenaceum. 
Graphiphora festiva, triangulum, C. nigrum, bella, and plecta, are from specimens furnished me by Mr. H. Doubleday. aah eee i from 
a dusky female specimen in the cabinet of Mr. Stephens, the males are described as much more distinctly mare Oandelisequs le feom-n 
specimen in the collection of Mr. Bentley; but it does not appear to correspond with the figures of the Continental species. Depuncta is from 
a British specimen, kindly lent by Mr. Reeves, for’ the purpose of being figured in this work. 
which I have taken from Godart. 
a of the true Continental species, and probably not of the insect in 
ise Pots B 
Musiva, being generally disallowed as a 
British insect, I have thought it better to figure the Continental species, 
The caterpillars are from Hiibner ; that of Candelisequa is, of course, the larv 
Mr. Bentley’s collection, which may possibly prove a variety of some other species. 
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