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appears in the months of June and September, being probably double-brooded. It is of common occurrence, and 
is widely distributed. 

SPECIES 14.—HADENA SAPONARILE. Prater XXXIV., Fie. 11. 
Synonymes.— Noctua Saponarie, Borkhausen ; Treitschke ; Ste- Noctua calcatrippe, Vieweg. 
phens; Esper; Godart; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 12, fig. 246. Ph. Noct. reticulata, Villars. 
Noctua typica, Hiibner. Noctua marginosa, Haworth. 
This beautiful and very distinct species measures rather more than 14 inch im the expanse of the fore wings, 
which are of a bright-brown colour, the veins, as well as the markings, of a clear buff; the costa has several 
slight angulated black lines indicating the origin of the pale strigze, and the three principal veins are broadly 
pale ; near the base of the wing is an angulated interrupted striga, edged with a black line ; beyond which is the 
second striga, forming a regular curve, edged outwardly with black, the space between it and the anterior stigma 
forming a dark triangular patch ; this is of an oval form, and placed rather obliquely, with the margin paler ; 
the space between it and the next stigma is dark-brown, and the latter forms a pale arch, emitting several black 
lines behind ; the third striga is not much curved, except towards the costa, and is ornamented with a row of 
small dark arches. The space between the third and fourth strigz consists of alternate dark and light longi- 
tudinal dashes, the fourth striga being but very little angulated; on the margin of the wing at the base of the 
cilia is a row of conical black dots, and the cilia is brown, interrupted by pale lines; the hind wings are pale 
buff, with the margin dusky on the underside; the wings are pale, with a central black spot, and several 
submarginal dark stripes. 
The caterpillar is to be found in July and August on Saponaria officinalis, various species of Dianthus, and 
Cucubalus, &c. Itis of aclear green colour, without any markings; the head greenish-brown, and the two 
anterior segments with a greenish-brown patch. The moth appears in the middle of the following summer. 
Treitschke places this species at the head of the genus Hadena, and Stephens at the end. Both in its 
markings and larva state it, however, differs from the rest of the genus ; and Guénée separates it, and an allied 
continental species, under the generic name of Neuria (from the pale veining of the wings) ; whilst by Boisduval 
it is formed into the eighth section of Hadena. 

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXV. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Heliophobus popularis (the feathered gothic), 
s¢ Fig. 2. Heliophobus leucophaus (the feathered ear), 3. The Caterpillar. 
_ Fig. 4. Euplexia lucipara (the small angle shades). 5. The Caterpillar. 
‘s Fig. 6. Hama aliena (the large nutmeg). 
i Fig. 7. Hama basilinea (the rustic shoulder-knot), 8, The Caterpillar. 
os Fig. 9, Hama Testacea (the lesser flounced rustic). 
s Fig. 10. Hama connexa (the union rustic), 
Prants.—Fig. 11. Eviphorum alpinum (Alpine Cotton-grass). 
The whole of the moths figured in this plate are from specimens sent me by Mr. H. Doubleday, with the exception of H. Leucopheus, which 
is from the specimen in the British Museum. The caterpillars of H. Leucopheus and H. basilinea are from Hiibner ; that of E. lucipara from 
Sepp.—H. N. H. 
HELIOPHOBUS, Borspuvat, Srepuens. 
The species of this genus are at once distinguished, by having the antenne in the males strongly bipectinated, 
whence Mr. Haworth and other authors described the species as belonging to the old genus Bombyx. They 
are moreover distinguished by their longitudinally striped caterpillars, from the species of Hadena last described, 
