AND THEIR TRANSFORMATIONS. 
the middle of the wing the costa is marked with four or five white dots, 
and reddish ; the hind wings are pale ochreous brown, with the margin dusky, wit! 
occasionally interrupted ; on the underside the costa and apex of all the wings is broadly tinged with red scales. 
arked with pale yellow longitudinal lines ; the 
belly paler, and feet red. It feeds on the pea, brown vetch, &c. in the autumn; and the moth, which is very 
abundant, and dispersed over the greater part of the country, appears in the following June. 
The caterpillar is reddish-brown, with the greenish sides m 
Obs.—Nearly allied to, if not a strong variety of the preceding insect, is a specimen found in Cumberland, 
in July, 1827, by Mr. Weaver, which Mr. Stephens has described (Brit. Ent., Haust. 2, p. 192, and Wood, 
Ind. Ent., pl. 12, fig. 251,) as doubtfully identical with the Noctua splendens of Hiibner. The fore wings 
measure 1°, in expanse, and of a red-brown colour, with three darker transverse strigee, the exterior 
nated by an interrupted white line ; the stigmata rather small, pale reddish ash, the 
posterior with dusky clouds; the cilia interrupted with cinereous ; 
one termi-~ 
anterior immaculate, the 
the hind wings ochreous-ash; with the 
margin, an interrupted transverse striga, central lunule, and nervures dusky ; cilia flavescent. 
SPECIES 3.—MAMESTRA OLERACEA. Purare XXXVI., Fie. 4, 5. 
Synonyme.—Ph. Noet. oleracea, Linneus; Hiibner; Haworth ; Treitschke; Albin, pl. 27, fig. 40 a—d; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., 
pl. 12, fig. 252. 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a nearly uniform chesnut 
colour, or but very slightly clouded, with the strigee obsolete, except the subapical one, which is slender, whitish, 
and dentate in the middle ; the anterior stigma is small, round, and dusky, but surrounded by a pale ring; the 
posterior one is more or less orange tinted, having a dusky shade behind it, as well as a supplemental dusky 
stigma behind the anterior one; the hind wings are dusky white, with the veins, a central lunule, and the 
border dusky. 
The caterpillar is livid, reddish, or yellowish-brown, with a dark stripe on the back and at the sides, and a 
whitish one nearly over the feet. The under side and feet are light brown, and it is dotted with black between 
the dark stripes. When young, and also sometimes when fully grown, the ground-colour is green, as repre- 
sented in our plate. It feeds on all sorts of cabbages, lettuces, and other vegetables in the autumn, sometimes 
committing much havoc in our gardens. It undergoes its transformations under-ground, where it may be 
found during the winter ; and the moth appears at the beginning of the following summer. 
SPECIES 4.—MAMESTRA SUASA. Parte XXXVI_., Fie. 6. 
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=. tT: : . Esper. 
Synonymes.—Woctua suasa, Wien. Verz.; Hiibner; Ochsenhei- Noctua leucographa, Es} 
mer ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 42, fig. 253. Noctua dens-canis, Haworth. 
Noctua dissimilis, Vieweg. - 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale, Woes ics 
brown colour, with a short black streak running from the base, and slightly furcate at its tip; the anterior 
stigma is small and blackish, the centre rather paler coloured ; behind which is a pale tepited atte peaenag: a 
conical black patch, which appears like the continuation of the basal streak ; ih outer stigma is nee dark in 
its hinder part, with a slender whitish edge, margined with dusky lines ; peyous which isa ERY: striga, followed, 
at some distance, by the subapical one, which is very much curved, especially ee me inden angle, and 
deeply dentate in the middle, bearing several black conical dashes on its inner margin ; the cilia and hind wings 
are pale fuscous, the latter with a subapical dusky bar. 
The caterpillar is green, with red and blue spots, and several blue streaks. It feeds on cabbages, lettuces, 
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and the cilia is alternately buff 
1 a paler subapical striga, 
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