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stigmata ; the anterior one round, with a pale margin, and the outer one reniform and greyish in colour ; there is 
also a spear-like, dusky patch towards the anal angle, and an angular one in the middle of the apical margin; the 
hind wings are of a dirty buff colour with an obscure transverse fascia. 
This is not a common species, but is 
occasionally taken in marshy districts near London. 

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XXXVIII. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Miana literosa (the rosy minor). 
6 Fig. 3. Miana strigilis (the marbled minor). 3. The variety called Latruncula. 
4. The variety called Adthiops, 
(the blackamoor). 
- Fig. 5. Miana humeralis (the cloaked minor), 6. A pale variety. 7. The variety called Terminalis, 8. A pale 
variety. 9. The variety called Rufuncula. 
ss Fig. 10. Miana fasciuncula (the middle-barred minor). 
£: Fig. 11. Miana pulmonarie. 
Fig. 12. Miana minima (the least minor). 
A Fig. 13. Celwna renigera (the kidney spot minor). 
as Fig. 14. Celxna Haworthii (Haworth’s minor). 15. The variety called Tripuncta. 16. The variety called Lancea, 
of which latter there is another still more obscure variety, called Hibernica. 
Puant.—Fig. 17. Peucedanum palustre (milk parsley). 
The whole of the above insects, with the exception of M. pulmonariz, from the collection of Mr. H. Doubleday, and M. minima, from the 
collection of Mr. Newman, (the original specimen of Haworth,) are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley. Mr. B., who has perhaps had more 
experience in the arrangement of this and the neighbouring groups than any other British Entomologist, considers the genus Miana to stand 
as in the above description of our Plate 18, viz., four distinct species, Literosa, Strigilis, Humeralis, and Fasciuncula 5 with the addition, perhaps, 
of Pulmonarie# and Minima; but it is very doubtful whether the two insects figured under those names are properly placed in this genus. Of 
the genus Celena, the above arrangement is also according to the views of Mr. Bentley; he makes only two species, Renigera and Haworthi, 
which may probably be eventually reduced to one, as it is considered doubtful whether the insect upon which our claim to Renigera, as a British 
species, is founded, may not be a foreign specimen. H. N. H. 
MIANA, Srepnens. APAMEA, Botspuvat. 
This genus comprises some of the most minute species of the present family, distinguished by their filiform 
antenne ; those of the males being rather thickened, and finely ciliated ; the palpi short, porrected obliquely, 
the terminal joint exposed, the head with a frontal crest, the body slender, thorax rounded, the back being 
strongly crested, the wings of moderate size, with dark shining patches, entire edges, and nearly obsolete stigmata. 
The caterpillars are small and vermiform, destitute of bright colours, with pale lines along the body, and which 
feed within the stems of grasses, near the roots ; the chrysalides are generally buried beneath the surface of the 
earth, and the perfect insects, which appear in the hottest months of the year, are to be found sitting on the 
trunks of trees. The species are extremely liable to vary 

SPECIES 1.—MIANA LITEROSA. Purate XXXVIII., Fie. 1. 
Synonyme.— Noctua literosa, Haworth ; Stephens; Ill. Haust, 3, pl. 25, fig.1; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 13, fig. 273. 
This species measures about 2th of an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a glaucous colour ; 
the base considerably darker, with a flexuous posterior striga of a rosy hue, followed by a pale one, and with various 
black markings in the middle of the wing, resembling letters ; the posterior stigma is placed about the middle of 
the wing, but is almost obsolete, being distinguished only by its broken dark edging on the inside, which is 
extended backwards, and forms the letter-like marks above mentioned, being united with the angulated posterior 
dark, dusky portion of the second ordinary striga ; the black marks are, however, occasionally obsolete. The 
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