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SPECIES 4.—MIANA FASCIUNCULA. Puatre XXXVIII., Fie. 10. 
Synonymes.—WVoctua fasciuncula, Haworth; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 13, fig. 280. 
Miana rununcula, Dofzel ? 
This species measures rather less than an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish colour, 
with a broad, central, dusky bar, interrupted by the stigmata, and very much narrowed behind towards the 
hinder margin, where it is obsoletely margined both before and behind with whitish ; the apex is preceded by a 
slender, russet-coloured, waved striga; and the cilia are reddish brown. The hind wings are blackish, with 
white or ashy ciliz. It varies occasionally by having the fore wings much paler coloured, of a reddish hoary 
tinge, and with a reddish-brown central fascia, bearing a transverse blackish streak, connecting the second and 
third strige. This is a rather common and widely dispersed species. 
Miana rufuncula, Haworth, Stephens, Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 13, fig. 279, and our figure 9, is most probably a 
very pale variety of this or the preceding species; it measures about an inch in expanse. The fore wings are 
entirely red, with two paler straight strigee in the middle, and a waved one near the apex ; but these strige are 
sometimes almost obsolete, and there is a marginal series of triangular dark dots. The hind wings are reddish- 
brown, with the cilize red. 

SPECIES 5.—MIANA PULMONARLA,. Purary XXXVIII., Fie. 11. 
Synonyme.—Woctua Pulmonaria, Hiibner; Duponchel; Boisduval (Var. A. furuncula). 
This species measures about an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale, ochreous, buff-colour, 
slightly clouded with brown; an abbreviated dusky striga before the middle of the wing, and a dusky cloud 
across the middle, inclosing the second stigma, followed by a curved row of dusky points on the’veins, indicating 
the third striga, beyond which is another slender, dusky, curved striga, dilated on the costa; the extreme apex 
slightly dusky, with a row of small dark dots; the hind wings ochreous-brown, with a pale bar across the middle, 
but interrupted, followed by another entire one. 
Taken by Mr. H. Doubleday at Epping, and by Mr. Douglas near Warley, Essex, in July. Mr. Bentley 
also possesses a specimen. The insect appears to be allied to the genus Acosmetia. 

SPECIES 6.—MIANA MINIMA. Pratre XXXVIIL., Fie. 12. 
Synonymr.— Noctua minima, Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 13, fig. 281. 
This is the most minute of all the British species of Noctuidae, measuring only 3 or 2 of an inch in the 
expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish ashy colour, with a straight white striga placed before the 
middle of the wing, and intersected by fine black lines. The two ordinary stigmata are round and like spots, 
separated by a brown patch, which reaches the costa, followed by a curved white striga, similar to the preceding 
one, and lastly a broader waved pale striga near the apex of the wing; the ciliz ashy; the hind wings brown, 
with white ciliz. Very rare; taken in Darenth Wood, Kent, and Whittlesea-mere. 


CELAINA, SrepuHens. 
This genus, which is united with the preceding by several recent authors, is characterized by its founder, 
Mr. Stephens, by its broader fore wings, with the posterior stigmata very conspicuous, and, with the adjoining 
veins, pale coloured ; the thorax not crested ; the palpi densely squamose, with the terminal joint obtuse ; the 
head with a dense tuft of hair on the crown. 
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