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broad greenish-white central bar (bearing a strong tooth in the middle from the base), and two small pale spots 
on the margin. The perfect insect is found in clover-fields in June and August ; at the beginning of which latter 
month I have taken it flying in the afternoon sunshine, near Wiesbaden. It is rather uncommon, but occurs in 
Kent, Surrey, and Hertfordshire. 
SPECIES 2.—ACONTIA APRICA. Puare LIIIL., Fie. 12. 
Synonymes.—NVoctua aprica, Hibner; Treitschke ; Stephens; Wood, pl. 52, fig. 1671. 
Noctua albo-ater, Haworth. 
Size of A. luctuosa ; fore wings white at the base, with two black costal spots ; apical portion blackish, with 
deeper chocolate-coloured shades ; the subapical striga slender, white, and very tortuous; hind wings and body 
white, the former with a slightly dusky margin ; cilia of fore wings broad, and spotted with brown and white ; 
of the hind wings whitish. A single specimen, of which the habitat is unknown, was in the collection of 
Mr. Tinley more than half a century ago. Boisduval gives the south of Italy as its locality, and Mr. H. Double- 
day omits it from the list of British Noctue. 

SPECIES 3.—ACONTIA SOLARIS. Puare LIII., Fie. 18. 
Synonymes.—Woctua solaris, Wien. Verz. ; Hiibner; Treitschke ; Noctua rupicola, Borkhausen. 
Godart ; Stephens ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 416. Phalena lucida, Hufnagle. 
Noctua albicollis, Fabricius. 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are white at the base, with a 
black dot towards the costa, and terminated before the middle of the wing by a rather broad deeply angulated 
bar, followed on the costa by a large pale whitish patch, and a slender waved streak on the opposite part of the 
inner margin ; the anal angle white, with several ashy-gray clouds or spots; the apex rather of a leaden gray, 
with a row of minute black dots; the reniform stigma somewhat like the figure 8; cilia brown, that portion 
next the anal angle white ; hind wings white, with a broad brown margin, cilia white. Several specimens taken 
near Dover and London, about twenty years ago, in June. The caterpillar feeds on trefoil, dandelion, &c. 
The moth is very common near Paris, appearing in May and August. It flies in the hottest part of the day 
in dry places where Eryngium campestre grows. 

SPECIES 4.—ACONTIA CALORIS. Purare LIII., Fie. 14. 
Synonyme,—Noctua Caloris, Hiibner; Treitschke; Curtis ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 417. 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, the basal portion of which is white, 
with several bluish gray strige ; the remainder of the wing varied with gray, blue, and brown, having alarge white 
patch on the costa (inclosing a small dark twig) ; about the middle of the wing is a dark dot behind the bilobed 
gray outer stigma; the submarginal striga is slender, pale, and very much waved, especially towards the anal 
angle, the margin itself with a row of black dots; the cilia brown in front, but with the hinder portion white ; 
hind wings whitish, with a broad dusky margin. A single specimen from Plastead’s collection is now in 
Mr. Curtis’s cabinet, and is supposed to have been captured near London many years ago. Boisduval gives it as 
a native of Greece; and Mr. H. Doubleday omits it from the list of British Noctuz. 
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