
BRITISH MOTHS 
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SPECIES 3.—ANARTA VIDUA. Puare LIII., Fie. 9. 
Synonymes.—Noetua vidua, Hiibner ; Treitschke; Duponchel ; Curtis’s Guide ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 413. 
Anarta melanopa, Thunberg; Boisduval. 
This species measures about an inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are dull grayish-brown, with 
the strige darker, undulating and dentated, and the stigmata distinct, with dark edges ; the hind wings are 
blackish-brown, with the base paler, and with a discoidal dark lunule ; the cilia pale, and the body rather 
slender. Specimens from the north of Scotland are in Mr. Curtis’s and Mr. H. Doubleday’s cabinets. 
HELIODES, Gutintz. ANARTA, pv. Srepnens. 
The antenne are perfectly setaceous in both sexes; the palpi very minute and scarcely discernible ; the 
abdomen slender ; the fore wings large and triangular, without distinct markings, and the hind ones broad ; 
when at rest they are extended as in the Geometridae. The caterpillars are short, naked, with a small head, 
and longitudinally striped. They feed on low plants. 
SPECIES 1.—HELIODES HELIACA. Puare LIII., Fie. 10. 
Synonymes.—Woclua heliaca, Wien. Verz.; Hubner; Ochsen- Noctua arbuti, Fabricius; Haworth; Donovan 10, pl. 343, f. 3; 
heimer; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent, pl. 17, fig. 414; Harris, Aurelian, | Curtis. 
pl. 33, fig. o. Noctua fasciola, Esper. 
Phalena domestica, Hufnagle. 
This pretty little insect measures about 2 of an inch in the expanse of the wings, which are brown, thickly 
irrorated with fulvous, red and dusky atoms, a darker shade crossing them about the middle, followed by a paler 
transverse shade, then a dusky bar terminated irregularly by the pale subapical undulated striga, which is almost 
obsolete ; the hind wings are black, with a bar of bright orange running across the middle; the cilia of the fore 
wings is alternately dark and light, that of the hind wings entirely pale luteous. 
This is rather a common species, and is widely dispersed, flying in the afternoon sunbeams at the end of May 
and June in meadows, and over grassy places. 

ACONTIA,. Ocusenuemer. 
This genus has the antennz simple in both sexes, the palpi curved upwards higher than the eyes, slender and 
i I with the terminal joint distinct and acute; the abdomen rather slender, and tufted in the males; the wings are 
prettily variegated, and the cilia are party coloured: they fly by day. The caterpillars are elongated, 
le attenuated behind, slightly setigerous, with only to pairs of membranous prolegs, resembling those of Euclidia. 
SPECIES 1—ACONTIA LUCTUOSA. Puare LIIL., Fie. 11. 
Synonymes.—/Voctua luctuosa, Wien. Verz.; Hiibner ; Treitschke ; Noctua Italica, Fabricius ; Devilliers. 
Boisduval ; Haworth; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 415. Noctua leucomelas, Fuessly. 
with slender undulated black strigez ; the anterior stigma small and round ; in the place of the outer stigma is a 
large square rosy white spot extending to the costa, where are two small dark dots ; at the anal angle is a pale 
patch, from which runs a series of black arches to the costa, edged with gray on the outside, and an interrupted 
row of reddish marginal dots ; the cilia white, with the middle portion black ; the hind wings blackish, with a 
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This species measures from 1] to 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a dark blackish-brown, 
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