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by a white abbreviated striga resting upon a dark brown patch ; the apical portion of the wing is paler than the 
centre, and prettily mottled with brown and green patches, and several acute black marks towards the anal angle, 
The hind wings are pale brown, with slightly indented slender dusky streaks across them beyond the middle. 
The caterpillar feeds on the whitethorn, and is found in May; it is of a brown colour, with the sides and 
belly luteous : it is varied with black and white, and has a protuberance near the extremity of the body. The 
moth flies in September and October, but it is not an abundant though widely dispersed species. 

SPECIES 3.—MISELIA COMPTA. Purare XXXIX., Fie. 15. 
Synonymes.— Noctua compta, Wien. Verz.; Fabr.; Hiibner; | Miselia comta, Ochsenheimer. 
Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 13. fig. 294. Phal. Noct. X-scriptum, Sowerby ; Brit. Misc., tab. 55. 
Ph. Noct. transversalis, Villers. |  Ditanthecia conspersa? Boisduval; Doubleday. 
This species measures rather less than 13 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a brown colour, 
varied with white spots and black markings, the base and middle of the wing being more regularly fasciated with 
white, the anterior stigma forming part of the middle fascia, the space between the two ordinary stigmata being 
marked with a black N (or occasionally X); towards the apical margin isa very much waved and dentated 
striga, which is dilated at the apex into asmall trilobed patch. The hind wings are brown, with the base paler. 
The caterpillar is gray, with a row of brownish spots on the back. It feeds on Lychnis dioica, and the moth 
appears in June; it is not a common species, although it has been occasionally found on palings at Darenth Wood, 
Kent. 
SPECIES 4.—MISELIA ALBIMACULA. Puate XXXIX., Fie. 16. 
Syvnonymes.— Noctua albimacula, Borkhausen; Treitschke; Ste- Noctua consorta, Hubner. 
phens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 13, fig. 304. Noctua compta, Esper. 
Noctua concinna, Hiibner ; Ochsenheimer; Curtis. 
This species is about the same size as the preceding, with the fore wings of a rich, pinkish, olive-brown, 
varied with white spots and black markings; at the base of the wings is a white spot, through which runs the 
anterior dark striga; the second and third strige are white, and very much dentated, and edged with black ; 
the anterior stigma is white, close behind which is a white patch, and the outer stigma is whitish, with a dusky 
centre ; the subapical striga is white and undulated, and is followed by a slender, interrupted, dusky line; the 
cilia is white, spotted with black ; the hind wings yellowish-brown, with a dark border, and two pale dots 
towards the anal angle. This species is also unique in the British Museum, the specimen having been found by 
the late Mr. Bydder on a post near Birch Wood, Kent. Boisduval gives June as the time of its appearance in 

the perfect state. 
SPECIES 5.—MISELIA APRILINA. Puare XXXIX., Fie. 15, 14. 
Synonymes.—Ph. Noct. aprilina, Linneus; Haworth; Treitschke; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 13, fig. 293. 
Noctua runica, Fabricius; Hiibner; Donovan, 10, pl. 354, f. 1. 
This fine species measures about 13 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a very pale green 
colour, varied with black markings, the costa having about ten small ones placed more or less obliquely ; there 
are several black patches at the base, followed by a nearly transverse white striga edged behind with black ; 
the stigmata are white, with the centre clouded with greenish, and edged with black, the outer one being very 
an irregular and interrupted black fascia running between the stigmata, and extended to the hind 
hite lunules, edged within with 
much bent ; 
margin of the wing ; beyond the stigmata is a much curved row of slender w 
black, succeeded by a row of small, black, angulated marks, edged with white, and a marginal series of triangular 
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