




2 BRITISH MOTHS 
DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXVI. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Mamestra furva (the dusky brocade). 
_ Fig. 2. Mamestra Pisi (the broom moth). 3. The Caterpillar. 
A Fig. 4. Mamestra oleracea (the bright line brown eye). 5. The Caterpillar 
4 Fig.. 6. Mamestra suasa (the dog’s tooth). 
> Fig. 7. Mamestra nigricans (the dusky nutmeg). 
" Fig. 8. Mamesta Brassice (the cabbage), 9. The Caterpillar. 
- Fig. 10. Mamestra albicolon (the white colon). 
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. Mamestra Persicariw (the dot). 12. The Caterpillar. 
& Fig. 13. Mamestra Chenopodii (the nutmeg). 14. The Caterpillar. 
ds Fig. 15. Mamestra Anceps? (the doubtful nutmeg). 
Prants.—Fig. 16, Lathyrus nissolia (the crimson Vetch). 
a Fig. 17. Polygonum Persicaria (common Persicaria). 
The whole of the moths figured in this plate are from specimens sent me by Mr. H. Doubleday, with the exception of M. suasa from the 
male specimen in the British Museum, and M. nigracans and M. anceps? from the cabinet of Mr. Stephens, who considers that the latter 
insect, taken by himself a short time since, must be the Anceps of Duponchel. ‘The caterpillars are from Hiibner, with the exception of 
M. Persicarix, from a specimen taken in the garden of Mr. Westwood, and M. Oleracea from a specimen taken in Yorkshire, and kindly 
forwarded to me for the purpose of being figured in this work by Mr. H. Doubleday.—H. N. H. 
MAMESTRA, Ocusennermer. HADENA, pars. Bov., Guén. 
The species of this group (as M. Guénée has clearly shown in the “ Annales de la Société de France,” 
1838, p. 244,) can scarcely be separated in a natural distribution of the family from the Hadenz, which like 
them have the W-like mark on the subapical striga of the fore wings. The species are, for the most part, of 
large size, and of dark colours. The fore wings have the apex slightly denticulated ; the terminal joint of the 
palpi is very small ; the antenne are simple in both sexes ; the forehead densely crested ; the thorax with a bifid 
crest on the back. The caterpillars are smooth and varied in their colours. The majority of them feed on low 
plants, concealing themselves by day. 
SPECIES 1—MAMESTRA FURVA. Puate XXXVI, Fie. 1. 
Synonymes.—/Voctua furva, Wien. Verz.; Hiibner; Treitschke ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 12, fig. 249. 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of an obscure brown colour, 
with ashy and fulvescent shades. The ordinary strige are distinct and pale, with dark edgings, except the subapical 
one, which is merely a pale line on adark ground, very much undulated, especially in the middle ; the stigmata 
are distinct but dusky, with a dark edging ; the margin has a row of black dots, followed by a pale line ; the 
ciliz alternately brown and ochreous ; the hind wings are ashy brown at the base, with the margin considerably 
darker as well as the nervures, and a central lunule. Found, but not very abundantly, in the woods round 
London ; also in Yorkshire and Sussex, and lately at Epping by Mr. H. Doubleday. 

SPECIES 2.—MAMESTRA PISI. Purare XXXVI., Fic. 2, 3. 
Synonymrs.—Phal. Noct. Pisi, Linn. ; Donovan 2, pl. 52; Haworth; Wilkes, pl. 7; Albin, pl. 32 
Treitschke ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 12, fig. 250. 
, fig. 51, c—f; Ochsenheimer ; 
This handsom i Lj ; ,; 
é € species measures rather more than 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a 
brownish red colour, clouded with rather darker tints, especially across the middle of the wing; the stigmata 
5D > > c c 
and ordinary strios are presc : ; : ; 
y strigee are present, but almost concolorous with the rest of the wing, except the subapical one, 
which is white and very much angulated, especially towards the posterior angle, where it is dilated ; beyond 

