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Illustrations, describes the female (Crassicornis), as more thickly irrorated with fuscous than the male 
(Pilicornis) ; but this is not the constant character of the sexes. He also suggested the possibility of these two 
supposed species being but the sexes of one. Our figures, 4 and 5, represent a splendid pair of this species, 
whilst figures 6 and 7 represent a variety of both sexes, of a paler colour, without so decided irrorations as in 
figures 4 and 5, and with the rows of dots almost obsolete. Our figure 8 represents another variety of 
the male, known by its more elongated abdomen, tufted at the extremity, which has the hind wings dark 
coloured, except at the base. Our figure 9 represents a specimen which resembles the Noctua lutosa of 
Hiibner (which, by the way, is not admitted as a species by the French entomologists), and which is almost 
entirely of a pale luteous-buff colour, with the dots and irrorations obsolete : it is smaller than the specimens 
above mentioned ; whilst figure 10 is a small variety, which has been considered as the N. Canne;* a 
comparison, however, with the much more brightly coloured figure of the true Cannz will show the great 
difference between them. 
Until the past year these insects have been rare in collections: one or two specimens of Pilicornis from the 
neighbourhood of Croydon; the same number of Crassicornis from Norfolk, and also the same number of the 
supposed Cann + from Yorkshire ; and asingle specimen of the supposed Lutosa from Derbyshire. Mr. Samuel 
Stevens has been so kind as to favour me with the following notice of his captures of the species in marshy 
ground, to the north of the Hammersmith road, opposite to Lord Holland's chapel :—“ I captured this fine 
species, from the end of August till the beginning of November, settled on the flowers of the reeds from six till 
ten o’clock in the evening, and succeeded in taking nearly 70 specimens by nightly visiting the spot. N. pili- 
cornis is the male. I have a specimen or two which agree tolerably well with the Lutosa of Hiibner, although 
these have faint indications of dots. I hope next season to breed them from the egg; they are, I believe, 
internal feeders, as I have taken a few young caterpillars lately in the interior of the reeds, that doubtless belong 
to this species.” The caterpillar, represented in figure 12 as that of Cannz, is from Hubner, and is very similar 
to that of Typhe, except in being of a redder brown, with pale lines. The artist has probably omitted the 
scutellations of the fore and hind part of the body, seen in Figure 3. 

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE XLVII. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Leucania straminea (the southern wainscot ). 
+ Fig. 2. Leucania comina (the shoulder-stripe wainscot). 
se Fig. 3. Leucania impura (the smoky wainscot). 4. The Caterpillar. 
Fig. 5. Leucania obsoleta (the obscure wainscot). 
# Fig. 6, Leucania littoralis (the shore wainscot).. 
- Fig. 7. Leucania pallens (the common wainscot). 
s Fig. 8. Leucania suffusa (a variety of pallens). 
2h Fig. 9. Leucania pygmina (the small wainscot). 
tf Fig. 10. Leucania pallida (a variety of pygmina). 
> Fig. 11. Leucania gemini puncta (the twin spotted wainscot). 12. The Caterpillar. 
as Fig. 13. Leucania pudorina (the striped wainscot). 14, The Caterpillar. 
“ Fig. 16. Leucania phragmatidis (the Simyra musculosa of some British collections). 
Prants.—Fig, 15, Eriophorum angustifolium (narrow-leaved Cotton-grass). 
The whole of the insects in this plate are selected from the fine series of specimens in the possession of Mr. Stevens, with the exception 

* The following is Mr. Stephens’s description of N. Cannze :—Expans. alar. 13 unc. Head and thorax pale reddish or yellowish ash, anterior 
wings the same, with a few minute dusky atoms, with some larger spots at the base, and a row, still more PEACE, towards the hinder margin, 
and forming an arcuated striga; in the middle of the disc is a single spot of similar hue ; posterior wings reddish or yellowish ash. 
+ Wood’s Figure of Cannz, from Mr. Bentley’s Scarborough specimen, has the fore wings without dots, and me hind ones darks brownish 
gray. Mr. H. Doubleday, however, informs me that Mr. Bentley, on seeing the true continental Canne, was convinced that his insect was 
not that species. 

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