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irrorated more or less with fine red-brown scales; 
; a very oblique dark striga from near the base of the wing 
within, to the basal angle of a large, silvery, diamond-shaped patch, near the middle of the wine beyond which 
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is another oval one towards the anal angle, and a nar i i 
gle, arrower one towards the apical angle, edged behind by a dark 
oblique striga, which extends to the inner margin; the apical margin bearing two slender dark lines. The head 
and thorax in front golden brown, and the hind wings and abdomen gray brown ; the latter with pinkish cilia 
The caterpillar is green, with dark dorsal and lateral lines, edged with white, and with yellow marks on each 
segment. It feeds on Festuca fluitans (fig. 13), Typha latifolia, and other aquatic plants; and the moth 
appears in June and August. It is not a very rare species, occurring in the marshes round London, as well as 
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DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LIII. 
Insects.—Fig. 1. Heliothis marginata (the bordered sallow). 
ms Fig. 2. Heliothis peltigera (the bordered straw). 3. The Caterpillar. 
6 Fig. 4. Heliothis Dipsacea (the marbled clover). 
6 Fig. 5. Heliothis scutosa (the spotted clover moth). 6. The Caterpillar. 
“6 Fig. 7. Anarta Myrtilli (the beautiful yellow underwing). 
. Anarta cordigera (the small dark-yellow underwing). 
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3 Fig. 9. Anarta Vidua? (the dark-yellow underwing). 
rd Fig. 10. Heliodes Heliaca (the small yellow underwing). 
es Fig. 11. Acontia Luctuosa (the four-spotted). 
- Fig. 12. Acontia aprica (the nun). 
i Fig. 13. Acontia solaris (the pale shoulder). 
" Fig. 14. Acontia caloris (the marbled beauty). 
As Fig. 15. Hydrelia uncana (the silver hook). 
“ Fig. 16. Agrophila sulphuralis (the spotted sulphur). 
ce Fig. 17. Hydrelia Bankiana (the silver barred). 
“ Fig. 18. Erastria venustula (the rosy marbled). 
5 Fig. 19. Erastria minuta of Hiibner. 
“ Fig. 20. Micra minuta of Haworth (the small marbled). 
a Fig. 21. Micra ostrina ( ? purpurina) (the purple marbled). 
Fig. 22. Erastria apicosa (the blossom tip). 
a Fig. 23. Erastria fuscula (the white spot marbled). 24. The Caterpillar. 
. Fig. 25. Erastria albilinea (the white line marbled). 
Heliothis.—Numbers 1, 2, and 4, are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley. No. 5 (H. scutosa) is from a Continental specimen in the British 
Museum. Anarta.—Nos. 7 and 10 are from specimens from Mr. Bentley; 8, from a Continental specimen in the British Museum ; and 9 
(A. Vidua) from the specimen in the cabinet of Mr. H. Doubleday, one of the two specimens taken at the Shetland Isles. Acontia.—Fig. 12 
(A. aprica) is from Hiibner ; figs. 11] and 13 (Luctuosa and Solaris) are from the cabinet of Mr. Bentley ; and 14 (Caloris) is from a Continental 
specimen in the British Museum. rastria.—All the insects figured in this genus, with the exception of E. minuta (No. 19) and E. ostrina 
(No. 21), the former from a specimen in the British Museum, and the latter from Mr. Curtis’s figure, reduced to the natural size, are from the 
cabinet of Mr. Bentley. 
Mr. E. Doubleday, who has kindly examined all the insects figured in the genus Erastria, and carefully compared them with other specimens 
in the Continental and British collections of the British Museum, has determined the insect called E.minuta in Mr. Bentley’s collection 
(Haworth’s specimen) to be a North American insect; the specimen in the British Museum (see fig. 20) being the true European minuta. 
Mr. Bentley’s E. albilinea (Haworth’s specimen) he has also proved to be a North American insect; and the insect figured by Mr, Curtis 
(No. 21, in this plate) as E. ostrina, he thinks is very probably the E. purpurina of Duponchel, &c. &c. 
The Caterpillars are from Hiibner. H.N, 1; 
HELIOTHIS, OcusenHeIMer. 
The palpi in this well-marked genus are short, with the terminal joint distinct, but short and truncated at 
the tip; the antenne are filiform in both sexes; the head and thorax are not crested; the fore wings without 
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