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Insects.—Fig. 9. Plusia festuce (the gold spot). 10. The Caterpillar. 
a Fig. 11. The Caterpillar of Plusia circumflexa. 
= Fig. 12. The Caterpillar of Plusia chrysitis. 
Puants.—Fig. 13. Festuca fluitans (fescue-grass). 
Fig. 14. Aconitum napellus (monkshood). 
C. perspicillaris is from a beautiful drawing by Mr. Paget, kindly lent me by Mr. H. Doubleday. P. illustris, P. percontationis, and 
P. interrogationis, are from specimens in the cabinet of Mr. Bently. P. gamma and P. festucse are from specimens furnished by Mr. H. 
Doubleday, and P. bimaculata is from the fine specimen in the cabinet of Mr. J. F. Stephens. The Caterpillars are from Hiibner.—H. N. H. 
CLOANTHA, Borspuvat. 
This genus has the antenne filiform, and alike in both sexes ; the palpi are of the ordinary form, the terminal 
joint being scarcely visible; the head is cucullated, the thorax being crested; the abdomen has the segments 
tufted above; the fore wings are prettily ornamented with somewhat radiating marks, and a single small round 
stigma ; the caterpillars are striped ; they feed during the night upon the species of Hypericum, having a minute 
head and the fore part of the body attenuated. 
SPECIES 1.—CLOANTHA PERSPICILLARIS. Puare LI., Fie. 1. 
Synonymes.—Phal, Noctua perspicillaris, Linnexus ; Clerck, Icones, t. 2, f. 3; Ochsenheimer; Ernst ; Boisduval ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 54, 
fig. 45; Paget; Doubleday. 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a reddish colour, having a 
broad, pale-yellowish fascia running from the base nearly to the apical margin, where it is united with two 
pale, strongly dentated marks, one before the middle, and the other towards the anal angle ; the inner margin is 
brown, with several blackish lines towards the base ; the hind wings are brown, with the base pale, and a minute 
black spot. A beautiful specimen of this insect was taken several years ago in a garden in Yarmouth, at the end 
of June. Ithad only just emerged from the chrysalis; for when first observed, its wings were not expanded. 
Tt is now in the collection of Mr. Paget, of that town. 

PLUSIA, OcusenHermer. 
This lovely group of insects is distinguished by its elevated palpi, with the terminal joint considerably elon- 
gated ; the thorax has the collar rather elevated, the tippets with a strong bifid crest; the abdomen is tufted 
along the back of the anterior segments; the fore wings near the apical margin more or less sinuated, the tip 
acute, and the disk ornamented with splendid colours; the caterpillars are much attenuated in front, with only 
three pairs of prolegs, two pair ventral, and one pair anal; they have the body slightly setigerous. The 
chrysalides are enclosed in a slight silken cocoon. 
SPECIES 1.—PLUSIA ILLUSTRIS. Puare LI., Fie. 2, 8. 
Synonvmes. — Noctua illustris, Fabricius; Ochsenheimer ; | (Abrostola i.) ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 16, fig. 396. 
Hiibner; Haworth; Curtis, Brit, Ent. pl. 731; Guénée ; Stephens Noctua cuprea, Esper (female). 
Although figured by Mr. Curtis in illustration of the genus Plusia, the present insect is a very aberrant 
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pecies from the true gold spangled types of the genus. It measures rather more than 11 inch in the expanse of 
the fore wings, which are of a creeni ; 
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re : R a greenish-brown, and very glossy, with an oblique pale line, edged externally with 
ack, extending from the inne ‘ior sti ich j i ipti 
; g nner margin near the base to the anterior stigma, which is oblique and elliptic, 
divided by a slender pale line into two parts, the outer stigma is succeeded by a rosy patch; beyond the 
stigmata isa flexuous striga, r . : ee et 3 ; : 
2g a Hexuous striga, rosy externally, and pale inwardly ; the subapical striga nearly straight and pale, 

