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SPECIES 6.—XYLOPHASIA CHARACTEREA. Prats XXXII, Fie. 6,7 
Synonymes.—Voctua characterea, Hiibner ; Curtis. Noctua hepatica 2 Wien. Verz. ; Treitschke ; Duponchel ; Boisduval. 
Noctua Epomidion, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 11, fig. 231. 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, of which the ground-colour is a greyish- 
buff, mottled with brown and purplish clouds ; the costa and base of the wings spotted as in the adjacent species ; 
the anterior stigma very oblique and marked with black on both sides, the space between this and the outer 
stigma dark-mottled-brown, the outer stigma large, round, and pale, followed by a pale striga edged with slender 
undulated brown arches, the veins with black dots, and a subapical pale luteous striga, very much angled towards 
the middle and waved at the anal angle, edged within with dark-brown, the space between it and the apex of the 
wing much mottled. A rare but widely dispersed species, being found in Derbyshire, Yorkshire, Surrey, 
Devonshire. The caterpillar figured by Hiibner is of a reddish-buff colour, with dorsal and lateral yellow lines 
and spots. 
Note.—It is impossible to determine what Mr. Haworth intended for his Noctua hirticornis, the Hairy-horned Brindle, the specimens having 
been destroyed. Mr. Haworth’s short character is “ spirilinguis cristata, alis glaucescentibus : fascia abbreviata terminalique plicata, antennis hirto- 
pectinatis.”” From the latter character one is almost tempted to believe the insects must have been mended with false antennx. 

SPECIES 7.—XYLOPHASIA SCOLOPACINA. Puate XXXII., Fie. 8. 
Synonymes.— Noctua scolopacina, Esper, Hiibner, Treitschke, Boisduval, Stephens, Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 11, fig. 232. 
Noctua abbreviata, Haworth, 
This species measures 11 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are varied with grey and brown or 
livery clay, with a black stripe at the base on the inner margin, a much abbreviated and not very well defined 
brownish fascia in the middle of the costa which is marked with various dark dots. The ordinary stigmata are 
somewhat obsolete, the outer one being whitish, with a grey lunule; and beyond this is a slender blackish 
dentated streak, beyond which is a broader brunneous striga nearer the posterior margin slightly undulated, 
the apical portion being rusty brown, with black dashes and several pale dots united into an undulated 
streak. The cilia red brown, The hind wings dusky brown, with pale cilia. A very rare species, taken 
near London and in different parts of Yorkshire, by Mr. Chant. 

SPECIES 8—XYLOPHASIA RECTILINEA. Piatt XXXII., Fie. 9, 10. 
Synonymes.—WVoctua rectilinea, Hiibner? Stephens, Ill.; Wood Ind. Ent. pl. 12, fig. 233. 
Engramelle, pl. 254, fig. 385. 
This handsome insect measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale ashy grey 
except in the middle, which is marked with a large reddish brown patch occupying the stigmatic region of the 
wings. The costa is dotted with black, and towards the tip with several white punctures, at the base of the wing 
are the ordinary dark dashes, with pale edges, observable in the allied species. The apical portion of the wing 
is much mottled with darker grey and brown, on which are several black dashes ; and towards the anal angle is a 
pale- waved streak ; the cilia ashy, with black dots at the base; the hind w ings as in the preceding species ; the 
sides and fore margin of the thorax, brown. The caterpillar figured by Hiibner, is reddish brown, with pale 
lateral lines, and two yellowish triangular spots on the hind part of each segment. This is also a very rare 
species, found in Lancashire, at Trafford Park, where it has been taken by Mr. Marshall, to whom we beg to 
offer our thanks for the loan of this and other rare species, 

