
SH MOTHS 
148 BRITIS 
SPECIES 1.—DASYCAMPA RUBIGINEA. PuatE XXX.,; Fie. 3, 4. 
Syvnonymes.— Noctua rubiyinea, Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; Hiib- Noctua tigrina, Esper. iF 
ner; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent, pl. 11, fig. 207; Noctua sulphurago, Borkhausen (variety ). 
Boisduval; Guénée; Treitschke. 
This species measures about 15 inch in the expansion of the fore-wings, which, as well fe the thorax, are 
of a rich, orange yellow colour; the former clouded with rusty red undulated strigz, epenany: across the 
middle, and with numerous small brown dots; the stigmata are not very distinct, the outer one being marked 
with a larger darker spot on its hinder part ; the hind wings are brownish black with fulvous cilia. pe 
caterpillar is brown and hairy, with black dots along the back. Rare, but taken at Bromsgrove, by Mr. Morris 
and in Norbury Park, by J. Walton, Esq., in October 1833. 


GLAZA, Hisner; Stern. CERASTIS, Ocus.; Borsp.; Gunter. 
As here restricted this genus is characterised by the flattened bodies of the perfect insects, which have the 
antenne slender and setaceous, covered with scales above, pubescent beneath, each joint producing a few fine 
bristles ; the palpi short, with the apical joint very minute, scarcely porrected beyond the frontal tuft; the 
abdomen truncated at the tip, and the fore wings also truncated at the tip, with the hinder angle rounded. When 
at rest they lie flat, one being partially placed upon the other. The caterpillars are smooth, cylindrical, thick and 
velvety, with the stigmal line distinct. They feed upon low plants by night ; the perfect insects appear at the 
end of the autumn. 
Mr. Curtis adopted this genus in the extent proposed by Mr. Stephens, namely, including rubricosa, rubiginea, 
and satellitia, observing, in opposition to that author, on the “ pernicious practice of giving everything a generic 
name which does not strictly accord with the type,” it frequently happening “‘ that the first and last species are 
as nearly related to other genera as to that in which they are included.” Mr. Curtis, however, subsequently saw 
that this practice was not quite so pernicious as he once deemed it, for, in a subsequent part of his work, he 
separated his Jast species satellitia as a distinct genus, whilst rubiginea and even, perhaps, rubricosa, have no 
greater right to retain their situation in the genus, 

SPECIES 1—GLAA VACCINII. Puarn XXX., Fie. 5, 6. 
Syvnonymes. — Phal. Noct. Vaccinii, Linneus; Hiibner ; Noctua polita, Hiibner ; Haworth (variety). 
Haworth; Boisdnval ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 11, fig. 209 5 Noctua ligula, Esper (variety). 
Albin. pl. 23, fig. 34, e—h. Noctua spadicea, Haworth; Hiibner? (variety). 
This is a very variable species, measuring about, or rather more than 1-- inch on the expanse of the fore 
wings which have a shining appearance which gives the greyer parts a bloom. The ground colour of the fore 
wings is dark red brown, the apical portion more tinged with orange ; near the base of the wing is a small short 
transverse grey striga, another more curved preceding the stigmata, and a third beyond the outer stigma, 
much undulated ; the chief veins are also greyish; the stigmata are orange with a darker centre, the outer one 
black behind; parallel with the apex is a sub-marginal dark striga preceded by a row of small reddish 
brown punctures, and the extreme margin is varied with small conical darker patches ; the under wings are 
tawny grey, with reddish fulvous cilia. The species varies, however, very greatly in the colours of the fore wings, 
some being almost uniform reddish brown, and others much darker, 
Guided by the great practical knowledge of Mr. H. Doubleday, respecting this tribe of insects, (see Ento- 
mologist, p. 262,) we have given the dark chestnut, (Noct. spadicea, Haworth) and netted chestnut (N. polita) 
