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varied with green, which is disposed along the main veins of the wings; the satay’ is marked near = tip with 
several whitish dots; the two anterior strigee are obsolete, the anterior stigma is round, brown, with a pee 
margin, the outer stigma is large, broad, and white, with a slight shade of wanna at vie sii sia vw hich 
appears the slender, black, denticulated, and much waved penultimate striga, the apical pues ee much 
varied with brown and green. The hind wings are whitish, with a broad dusky border in which is a pale 
subapical striga. 
The caterpillar is ashy, with red dots and black dentate streaks and a red collar ; it feeds on the blackthorn. 
The moth is of great rarity, but is very widely dispersed, having been taken near London, in Richmond Park, 
near Bristol, in South Wales, and in Scotlaud. 

MISELIA, Treirscuxe. 
The species which have been introduced into the present genus by English authors, are by no means so 
uniform in their habitus or appearance as to render the group a fixed one as thus constituted ; we accordingly 
find the recent Continental authors are not in accord with our own, adopting indeed the generic name, but 
introducing some other species, whilst some of ours are removed by them to other groups. The antennz in our 
typical species are robust, and more or less serrated beneath in the males; the palpi short and obliquely porrected, 
with the terminal joint not concealed by the scales of the preceding ; the head with a crest ; the thorax large, 
and also crested or thickly squamose; and the abdomen large and tufted; the wings are but slightly deflexed 
when at rest, the anterior being strongly marked, and having the apical margin crenated. The caterpillars are 
naked, subdepressed, and varied with dark markings on the back, with the extremity of the body gibbose, or 
furnished with conical protuberances. 
SPECIES 1.—MISELIA BIMACULOSA. Puatre XXXIX., Fie. 10. 
Synonyme.— Phalena (Noctua) bimaculosa, Linnzeus ; Hiibner ; Fabricius; Curtis; Brit. Ent. pl. 177. Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 13, fig. 291. 
This fine species measures two inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a pale buff-coloured oray, 
minutely speckled; the fore margin, with about ten dark oblique dashes, an oblong oval chesnut-coloured patch 
towards the base resting upon a dentate striga preceding the stigmata, which are large and pale-coloured, a very 
large supplemental one being placed behind the anterior one; beyond the stigmata, is a curved and crenated 
striga of a brown colour, edged with pale tint, and followed by a few dark dots on the veins, and a waved interrupted 
submarginal striga. The hind wings are also pale, with two large dark patches, one in the middle and one near 
the anal angle. I believe this insect still remains unique in the British Museum, the specimen having been 
taken near Bristol. Boisduval gives August as the time of its appearance in the perfect state. The caterpillar, 
as figured by Hiibner, is gray, with longitudinal dusky and whitish lines, each segment with two dark oval 
patches, each bearing a spiracle; the hind part of the body with two conical protuberances : it feeds on the Elm. 
SPECIES 2.—MISELIA OXYACANTHA. Puare XXXIX., Fie. 12. 
Synonymr.—Ph. (Noct.) Oxyacanthe, Linn.; Haworth ; Donovan, 5 pl. 165 ; Wilkes, pl. 27; Harris, 
Albin, pl. 14, fig. 19, a—d ; Hiibner ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 13, fig. 292. 

Aurelian, pl. 43. fig. d, f; 
This species measures 12 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a shining brown colour, 
varied 
along the margins and upon the veins with green scales. 
At the base of the wings is a black dash extending 
into the supplemental stigma, and running through the angulated striga at the base of this and the anterior 
stigma. All the stigmata are larger and paler-coloured than the disk of the wings, with the edges 
within still 
paler ; they are followed by a slender waved black line, which is conspicuously edged tow 
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