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angulated towards the extremity of the back. They undergo their transformations beneath the surface of the 
ground. 
SPECIES 1—EUPLEXIA LUCIPARA. Puare XXXV., Fie. 4, 5. 
Synonymes.—Phal. Noct. lucipara, Linneus ; Donovan, plate 230, fig. 2; Hiibner, Noct. fig. 55 ; Haworth; Stephens; Curtis, Ill. B. 
Ent. pl. 619 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 12, fig. 259. Noctua flavo-maculata, Fabricius. 
This species measures 1! inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are of a brown colour, with a 
purplish bloom, giving them a greyish tinge towards the anterior portion. Near the base are several slender 
transverse black lines, and a broad dark central fascia, narrowed behind, and bearing the anterior stigma, which 
is brownish-grey, and the posterior one pale yellow, with the centre darker; beyond this the ground-colour of 
the wing is much paler, with a slender brown striga running obliquely across it, followed by a slender, pale, 
angulated one upon the dark apical portion of the wings; the cilie are dark coloured, with the base pale ; the 
hind wings are pale ochre-coloured, with the margin brown, bearing a pale, ochreous, angulated striga near the 
anal angle. There is also another paler undulated striga across the middle. 
The caterpillar is green, with minute black tubercles, and a slender dark dorsal line, emitting numerous 
oblique strigze of the same colour ; a dark longitudinal line above the feet, edged above with white. It feeds on 
various plants, such as Rubus fruticosus and saxatilis, Rumex acetosa, Echium vulgare, Anchusa officinalis, &c. 
It appears in the autumn ; and the moth, which is rather rare as a British species, is produced in June. It has 
been found in the woods round London, as well as in Devonshire, Hampshire, Dorsetshire, &c. 
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HAMA, Srepnens. LUPERINA, ev. Bov., Guén. 
This genus is composed of species closely allied in their preparatory states to those of Chareas. Their 
antennz, however, are much more simple in the males, being only ciliated or slightly serrated; the palpi are 
short, with the terminal joint distinct and somewhat clavate, although small ; the eyes are large and naked ; 
the thorax is but slightly crested ; the wings are not longitudinally folded, but deflexed at the sides of the body in 
repose, the margin being nearly entire. The caterpillars are thick, fleshy, and naked, of dark colours, with pale 
longitudinal stripes. The transformations are undergone beneath the surface of the earth. 

SPECIES 1.—HAMA ALIENA.» Prare XXXV., Fie. 6. 
Synonymes.— Noctua aliena, Hiibner ; Treitschke; Stephens; Doubleday ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 12, fig. 260, 
Noctua contigua, Haworth. 
This species measures about 11 inch in the expansion of the fore wings, which are mottled with fulvous, 
brown and ashy colours, the stigmata and strige (three in number) being pale, the outer striga being bidentate. 
Across the middle of the wing is a dusky cloud, on which the stigmata are placed; the anterior one being pale 
ashy, and the outer one clouded in the middle with a darker shade, and margined with a pale line; the apex of 
these wings is dark coloured, and the ciliz alternately pale and dark; the hind wings are pale ashy-coloured, 
with a dusky central lunule ; the veins and margin also brown. The species is widely dispersed, but by no 
means common. 

SPECIES 2.—HAMA BASILINEA. Prarer XXXV., Fie. 1 8s 
Synonymes.— Noctua basilinea, Wien. Verz.; Fab.; Hib. ; Haworth; Stephens; Guénée ; Boisduval ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 12, fig. 261. 
Noctua nebulosa, Vieweg. 
This species also measures about 12 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which 
are of a dull, pale, greyish- 
brown colour, less strongly shaded with darker clouds than in the pr 
eceding species, From the base of the 

