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250 BRITISH MOTHS 
SPECIES 4.—CATOCALA SPONSA. Purare LVL, Fie. 1, 2. 
Linneus : Hiibner ; Donovan, 9, pl. 324; Stephens ; Haworth ; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 441. 
Phalena nupta, Harris, Aurelian, pl. 19, fig. g—l. 
21 to 3 inches in the expanse of the fore wings, which are pale ashy 
Synonymes.— Phalena Noctua sponsa, 
This beautiful species measures from 
brown, with numerous dark, flexuous, and dentated streaks, and brown clouds, with a pale whitish patch in the 
stigmatic region of the wing ; the anterior stigma represented by a J-like mark, and the outer one by a G, very 
plainly delineated, behind which is a distinct spot, varying in colour, and edged with black ; the subapical striga 
pale, and deeply dentated and margined with black ; hind wings bright crimson, with a slender black fascia 
across the middle, forming two strong angles and a broad black margin, the inner edge of which corresponds with 
the angles of the central striga; cilia dark ; the abdomen is ashy brown. The caterpillar is light ash, with 
brown markings and a bluish head, and with several of the segments tubercled ; it feeds on the oak, and the 
moth appears in June and July, and occurs in some profusion on the stumps of the oaks in the New Forest ; also 
taken in the woods and parks round London. From Harris's figure of the larva, and the angulated striga of the 
hind wings, it is evident that he intended his drawing for this, and not the next species. 
SPECIES 5.—CATOCALA PROMISSA. Puare LVI., Fie. 3 & 15. 
Synonymes.— Noctua promissa, Wien. Verz. ; Fabricius ; Hubner ; Phalena nupta, Wilkes, pl. 68. 
Haworth; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 442, Noctua Mneste, Hiibner. 
This species is ordinarily rather smaller than the preceding, measuring from 2} to 23 inches in the expansion 
of the fore wings, which are of a paler colour than in C. sponsa, being ashy, varied with brown, and ornamented 
with numerous dark, deeply-dentated strige ; the middle of the wing without the pale patch ; the hind wings 
coccineous, with a flexuous but scarcely angulated black fascia across them, rather beyond the middle, and a deep 
border of the same colour, of which the inner margin runs parallel with the fascia ; cilia pale ashy, clouded with 
brown; the abdomen ashy. The caterpillar is bluish ash, with numerous irregular black dots and fimbriated 
above the feet. It feeds on oak, on the trunks of which trees the moth is found about the beginning of July. 
Taken near Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, and Richmond Park. 

SPECIES 6.—CATOCALA CONJUNCTA. Puarte LVL., Fie. 4. 
Synonymes.— Noctua conjuncta, Esper; Treitschke ; Godart ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent. pl. 17, fig. 443. 
Noctua conjuga, Hiibner; Haworth. 
This species is very closely allied to the two preceding, measuring about 2+ inches, or somewhat less, in the 
expanse of the fore wings, which are ashy brown, varied with darker clouds and dentate strigz, and a rather pale 
patch in the whitish central fascia ; the hind wings coccineous, with a nearly straight, black, central fascia 
abbreviated towards the anal angle, and a broad black margin, of which the inner edge is rather more sinuated 
than the preceding striga, and having a whitish patch on the margin, near the tip of the wing ; abdomen ashy 
brown. Mr. Stephens states that a specimen has been taken near Dulwich ; two other specimens were in ancient 
British collections of which the localities are unknown. 
BREPHA, Htsyer. BREPHOS, Ocusenuemen. 
The few species of which this genus is composed present a remarkable discrepancy in the structure of the 
antenne, being strongly bipectinated in the males of B. Parthenias, whilst they are simple in the same sex of 
B. notha; and yet the females of these two species are so much alike that it is very difficult to perceive a 
