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Buckinghamshire, in July, having just come out of the chrysalis, and in the act of drying its wings, whence 
the ordinary English name of this species. 


SPECIES 2.—CATOCALA NUPTA. Puate LV., Fie. 5. 
Synonymes.— Phalena Noctua Nupta, Linneus ; Hiibner; Ha- Phalena pacta, Harris, Aurelian, pl. 18, fig. g—m (but not of 
worth ; Donovan, 7, pl. 224 ; Albin, pl. 80, fig. a—d; Wilkes, pl. 10, Linnzus); Wilkes, pl. 37. 
fig. 7; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 440. 
Noctua concubina, Borkhausen. 
This is the most abundant species in the genus, measuring 3 inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which 
are of a gray colour, thickly irrorated with dusky scales, forming clouds; the four ordinary strige are present 
and much dentated, being of a paler colour, with dark edges; the space between the second and third is very 
broad ; the anterior stigma replaced by a whitish patch ; the outer stigma black, with a light border, behind 
which is a round patch, with a dark margin ; the apical margin with a row of small black arches. The hind 
wings bright scarlet, with an irregular, curved, black bar, extending nearly across the middle of the wing, and a 
broad apical fimbria ; cilia white. 
The caterpillar is ashy, with dark and shady lines, and with luteous spots and streaks; the cilia above the 
feet white ; it feeds on sallows and willows, and the moths are found flying by day, settling on the trunks of 
those trees, palings, &c., about the beginning of August, flying off on being approached with the greatest activity. 
PHALHNA NocTUA pacta, Linnzus; as noticed in the Synonymes, has been incorrectly introduced amongst 
our English moths, in mistake for C. nupta. 

SPECIES 3.—CATOCALA ELOCATA. Puare LV., Fie. 6. 
Synonyme.— Noctua elocata, Esper ; Ochsenheimer ; Curtis, Brit. Noctua marita, Hiibner. 
Ent. pl. 217 ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 54, fig. 55. Noctua uxor, Hiibner. 
Noctua nupta, Fabricius. 
This species measures 3} inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a darker, more olive colour 
than in C. nupta, the strige being more darkly edged, whilst the stigmatic markings are more obscure, and the 
apical row of dots are rounded ; the hind wings have the red colour less bright than in Nupta; the black central 
fascia is more regularly rounded, broader, and extending to the anal angle. <A single specimen of this insect was 
in the late Mr. Blunt’s collection, but Mr. Stephens states that it was “ obtained direct from Oporto.” The early 
volumes of the Magazine of Natural History contain some controversial papers on this subject. It is omitted 
from the list of British Noctuidee by Mr. H. Doubieday. 

DESCRIPTION OF PLATE LVI. 
Insects. —Fig. 1. Catocala Sponsa (the dark crimson underwing), 2. The Caterpillar. 
uf Fig. 3. Catocala Promissa (the light crimson underwing). 15, The Caterpillar. 
f Fig. 4, Catocala Conjuncta (the lesser crimson underwing). 
= Fig. 5. Brepha Parthenias (the orange underwing). 6. The Caterpillar. 
es Fig. 7. Brepha Notha (the light orange underwing). 8. The Female. 9. The Caterpillar. 
4. Fig. 10. Euclidia Glyphica (the Burnet). 
aS Fig. 11. Euclidia Mi (the Shipton). 12. The Caterpillar. 
Prants.—Fig. 13. Quercus pedunculata (common oak). 
The whole of the insects in this plate are from the rich cabinet of Mr. Bentley. The caterpillars are from Hiibner ; that of Sponsa slightly 
altered to express more clearly the flatness of the underside, and its close manner of lying upon a branch—characters common to the larve of all 
the red underwings. H.N. H. 

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