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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXIII. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Hadena adusta (the dark brocade). 
A, Fig. 2. Hadena remissa (the gothic brocade). 
o Fig. 3. Hadena thalassina (the pale-shouldered brocade). 
As Fig. 4. Hadena geniste (the light brocade). 
a Fig. 5. Hadena contigua (the beautiful brocade). 6. The Caterpillar. 
7 Fig. 7. Hadena glauca (the glaucous sheers). 8. The Caterpillar. 
sie Fig. 9, Hadena plebeia (the common sheers), 10. The Caterpillar. 
Prants.—Fig. 11. Cypripedium calceolus (Ladies’-slipper). 
“ Fig. 12. Eriothorum vaginatum (Hare’s-tail Cotton-grass). 
The whole of the insects in this plate are figured from specimens sent me by Mr. H. Doubleday, with the exception of H. remissa, from a 
specimen in the British Museum. The caterpillars are from Hiibner. 
[have omitted H. satura, which is now considered merely a pale and slightly marked variety of H. adusta and also H. oblonga, which 
Mr. Stephens now considers a variety of H. remissa, in his specimen of which, the stigmata and other markings are rather larger, paler, 
and of more even colour than in the true species. If, on examining a specimen of H. obscura it is found to be distinct, a figure of it will be 
given in a supplemental plate. H. N. H. 
HADENA, Scuranx, Steppr. (HADENA, pars. Boy., Guév.) 
Many of the moths included in this genus by our English authors are known to collectors under the name of 
brocade moths, from the rich shining patches of varied tints upon the fore wings, which have the two ordinary 
stigmata distinct and rather approximating towards each other, the basal one being placed obliquely ; the place 
of the supplemental stigma is indicated by a dark oval patch edged with black, and there is a pale striga running 
near the apical margin of the fore wings which is strongly angulated towards their posterior angle. The palpi 
are bent upwards, but do not extend much in front of the head, and they have the terminal joint slightly exposed ; 
the antenna are either simple or slightly serrated and ciliated beneath in the males. It is chiefly on account of 
the difference in the structure of the male antenne that Mr. Curtis has separated the genus into two groups; 
confining the name of Hadena, to the species figured in our thirty-fourth plate, and calling those represented on 
the thirty-third by the generic name of Rhizolitha, a group equivalent with Boisduval’s tenth section of Hadena, 
that genus being regarded by Boisduval and Guénée as of far greater extent, and comprising the genera Charzas, 
Mamestra, Hadena, Trachea, and Euplexia, divided however into a great number of sections. 

SPECIES 1.—HADENA ADUSTA. Puate XXXIII., Fie. 1. 
Synonymes.—WVoctua adusta, Ochsenheimer; Esper ; Dupon- Noctua valida, Hiibner, fig. 606, 607, 608. 
chel ; Boisduval; Stephens; Wood, Ind, Ent., pl. 12, fig. 230. Noctua duplex, Haworth. 
This species measures 1 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale greyish-brown colour, 
marked with brownish-black patches, having a black patch at the base within and a dark black line in the place 
of the supplemental stigma, and with the stigmata and strige paler coloured, edged with blackish-brown, one of 
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the strigze being before and the other beyond the middle, both much waved and connected together by the black 
line before-mentioned ; and beyond the stigmata is another pale striga deeply bidentate towards the posterior 
angle, and edged within with black spear-shaped dashes placed between the veins ; the hind wings are whitish, 
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with the veins and margin dark. The thorax is grey-brown, with two slender black arches in front. This rare 
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species oscurs in the woods of Kent and Surrey, also found on Chatmoss by Mr. Edleston and by Mr. Doubleday 
at Epping in May. 
Dark varieties of this species occur in many cabinets under the name of H. Satura. 
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it possible that his specimens described under that name might be varieties of H. adusta, as 
Mr. Stephens also 
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