AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS, 149 
as varieties of this species. Mr. Stephens (Illustr. Haust. Supplement, vol. iv., p- 389) indeed, as well as Boisduval, 
had entertained the same opinion ; but Mr. Doubleday specifically separates the subnigra, next described. The 
variety named Polita is described by Haworth as very similar to Vaccinii, but with the wings browner, with 
the strige and veins reticulated with ashy scales, whilst Spadicea is described by Haworth as having the fore 
wings of a nearly uniform subcastaneous colour, very slightly clouded with brown, the costa near the tip with 
a few small whitish dots. The true Spadicea is, however, as I believe, identical with the following species. (See 
Guénée in Ann. Soc. Ent. de France, for 1841, p. 243.) The caterpillar is reddish brown, with a pale 
lateral line, the first segment black with white stripes; the belly pale greenish. It feeds on the bilberry and 
whortleberry, bramble, &c., and the moth appears in September, October, and November, hybernating and | 
appearing again in the spring. It is an abundant species. 
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SPECIES 2.-GLAA SUBNIGRA, Puare XXX., Fie. 7, 8. 
Synonymes.—Noct. subnigra, Haworth ; Stephens ; Curtis, Brit. Noct. spadicea, Hiibner? (nec Haworth); Guénée in Ann. 
Ent. pl. 268 ; Wood Ind. Ent. pl. 11, fig. 211. Soc. Ent. France, 1841, p. 243. 
This species is rather smaller than the preceding, measuring 11 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which 
are of a chestnut black colour and shining, some specimens having nearly all the markings obliterated as in our 
figure 7, except the black patch in the outer stigma, and a row of reddish lunulated spots, but very indistinct 
towards the apical margin. Mr. Haworth’s description and Mr. Curtis's figure represent a strong variety in which 
the two basal strigee are more distinct, the stigmata reddish, followed by a pale undulated much-curved striga, 
several minute white dots on the costa, and a pale ochre subapical bar with six or seven ferruginous spots. But 
the chief character of the species appears to consist in the different form of the fore wings which have the apex 
more produced and pointed. The hind wings are ochreous brown with a darker fascia and the cilia ochre. It 
is a comparvtively rare species, which appears in the perfect state later in the season than G. Vaccinii. 
The caterpillar feeds on the honeysuckle, according to Mr. H. Doubleday. 

SPECIES 3.—GLHA? RUBRICOSA. Puate XXX., Fie. 1, 2. 
Synonymes.— Noctua rubricosa, Wien. Verz. ; Fabr.; Hiibner; , Noctua mucida, Esper. 
Treitschke ; Stephens (Glwa r.) ; Boisduval (Orthosia r.); Guénée | Noctua pilicornis, Borkhausen. 
(Tzeniocampa r.); Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 11, fig. 206. Noctua mista, Hiibner (variety). 
Noctua rufa, Hatchett ; Haworth. 
This interesting species measures nearly 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a deep chestnut 
red, and very glossy ; the costa paler, with several small dark brown spots at the origin of the strige, which are 
but slightly indicated, and rather paler than the rest of the wing; the apex of the costa, on the other hand, is of 
the same colour as the rest of the wing, with several minute white dots; the stigmata are present, but rather 
indistinct, the outer one with a dusky patch behind. The hind wings are reddish brown, with reddish cilia. 
The abdomen is not depressed, as in the other species, and the antenne are more hairy beneath ; a character which, 
together with the very different habit of the caterpillar, has induced recent French Lepidopterists to remove it 
from the preceding species of Glea, from which it also differs in the more oblique truncation of the extremity of 
the fore wings. The caterpillar is grey, with a brownish dorsal line, and two white spots on each segment ; it 
is smooth and cylindrical. It feeds on Rumex acutus, and the moth, unlike the two preceding species, appears 
at the end of March, frequenting banks of nettles, but it is a rare species. Boisduval places the species in 
; rer ° . . ap] rect state agrees. 
Orthosia, and Gueénée in Tzeniocampa, with which latter the vernal period of the perfect state ag 



