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white, with a broader dusky margin than in the preceding. The caterpillar is slaty or ash-coloured, with 
numerous black spots arranged in longitudinal lines, and with a rather broad dorsal and lateral yellow line. It 
feeds on tansy, wormwood, chamomile, &c., and the moth appears in June and September, according to 
Boisduval, but Stephens gives the end of July. It is a rather rare, but widely dispersed species. 

SPECIES 11.—CUCULLIA LACTUCZH, Puare XLIX., Fie. 10, 11. 
Synonymrs.—Noctua Lactuce, Wien. Verz.; Fabr.; Ochsen- | fig. 368, a—e ; Duponchel, pl. 126, f. 2. 
heimer ; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 16, fig. 384 ; Rosel, Noctua lucifuga, Hubner, fig. 262. 
t. 1, p. 442, fiz. 1—5 ; Hiibner, larv., 4, pl. 222, fig. 1 a; Engramelle, 
This species measures nearly two inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a rather dark-grayish 
or slate colour, relieved by paler gray shades, and with a reddish, obscure spot towards the centre, and various 
streaks and angulated slender lines of brownish-black ; the apex with several pale slender lines ; the inner margin 
deep-ashy brown, with several pale and dusky waved streaks ; the apical margin with a slender interrupted black 
line ; the hind wings brown, with the base rather paler; the veins dusky. The caterpillar is yellow, with a 
row of red dots down the middle of the back, and each segment with two large black patches on each side, as 
well as several small black dots above the feet; the head black, with a yellow slender line down the face. It 
feeds on various species of sonchus, lettuce, &c.; and the moth appears in July. Taken, rarely, in the woods 
round London as well as in Yorkshire. 
SPECIES 12.—CUCULLIA LUCIFUGA. Puare XLIX., Fie. 12, 13, 17. 
Synonyme.— Noctua lucifuga, Wien. Verz. ; Ochsenheimer; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 16, fig.383 ; Rosel, v. 1, pl. 25, fig. 
1, 2, 4,535 v. 3, pl. 71, fig. 10; Hiibner, larve, pl. 223, 1 a, 6; Engramelle, t. 6, pl. 248, fig. 369 a. 
This species measures two inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a slaty-brown colour, with 
black longitudinal lines, streaks, and veins ; the costa pale at the base and beyond the middle, with several small 
whitish spots ; the apical margin also with longitudinal whitish lines edged with gray; the disk indistinctly 
dotted ; the apical margin with a transverse ashy-white streak ; hind wings deep ashy-brown ; the cilia pale. 
The caterpillar is dark-greenish or ashy-colour, with numerous black spots, some of which form a row on each 
side of the back, which is red-brown down the middle, and at the sides, the latter bordered by a slender whitish 
line above the feet. The perfect insect appears in July, and is comparatively rare, although frequenting the 
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same localities as the last species. 

SPECIES 13.—CUCULLIA CHAMOMILL#. Puare XLIX., Fie. 14, 15. 
Synonymrs.— Noctua Chamomille, Wien. Verz.; Fabricius ; Wood, Ind, Ent. pl. 16, fig. 385 
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Hubner; Esper; Treitschke; Boisduval; Haworth; Stephens ; Noctua fissina, Haworth (a dark variety) 
This species varies from 14 3 j i c x . 
Pp > to 13 inch in the expanse of the fore w ings, which are of a much darker ashy- 
colour than th ino speci i ae ee er Alig ee ee , : 
f e preceding species, with the markings more clouded and indistinct ; the striz being very slender ; 
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the spaces between them along the api i 7] i as . : 
Pp along the apical margin of the wing being longitudinally striped with whitish and ashy ; 
the base with a distinct black streak terminated in a deeply angulated pale patch ; the costa is marked with 
several pale dots, and the pale mark beyond the middle of the inner margin, is deeply anculated ; the hind wings 
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are deep brown, with the base rather paler ; the males being paler coloured than the females. The caterpillar is 
of an ashy-buff colour, with two curved brown streaks on each side of e 
flowers ; and the moth appears at the end of May and in June. 
places near London, Birch Wood, Putney Heath, and Wimble 
Devonshire. 
ach Segment. It feeds on chamomile 
This is a rare species, but is found in various 
don Common, also in Essex, Hampshire, and 

