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EUCLIDIA, Ocusenuermer. 
This genus has much of the habit of the preceding, but differs in the palpi, which are of moderate size, and 
bent upwards, with the terminal joint attenuated ; the antennz simple; the fore wings form a triangle when 
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closed, and the larve are very long, slender, and vermiform, twisting about in all directions, and having only 
twelve feet. 
at they possess fourteen feet, ingeniously throwing a leaf over that portion of his figure of the larva, 
Mr. Stephens, indeed, described them as sixteen-footed, which Mr. Curtis attempted to correct, by 
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which would have shown his own error. The head of the caterpillar is of large size ; they feed on low-growing 
plants. These insects fly in the afternoon sunbeams, and are very active: a peculiarity indicated by the spines 
on the four posterior tibie,* which are analogous to those on the feet of the Phryganiide. 
SPECIES 1.—EUCLIDIA GLYPHICA. Puare LVL, Fic. 10. 
Synonymes.-Phalena Nociua glyphica, Linnxus; Hibner ; Haworth; Stephens; Curtis, Brit. Ent., pl. 659; Wood, Ind. Ent., 17, 
fig. 447. 
This species measures about 14 inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are glaucous brown, with two 
converging brown bars running across the middle, and a brown patch near the extremity of the costa; the hind 
wings dull orange, with the veins, the inner and apical margins irregularly, and an abbreviated slender striga 
beyond the middle dark brown. The caterpillar is rusty gray, with brown dorsal and lateral streaks, the latter 
with black dots on each side. It feeds on species of Verbascum, Trifolium, &c., and the moth appears about 
the end of June, frequenting the sides of clover fields near woods, and being rather common and dispersed all 
over the kingdom. 
SPECIES 2.—EUCLIDIA MI. Pare LVL, Fic. 11, 12. 
Synonyme.—Phalena Noctua Mi, Linneus; Treitschke; Hubner; Haworth ; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., plate 17, fig. 448; Harris, 
t Aurelian, pl. 41, fig. S. 
This species measures rather less than 1+ inch in the expanse of the fore wings, which are of a blackish- 
brown colour, with numerous buffish-white, sinuated lines, giving the wing the appearance of being mapped 
out ; the hind wings are also blackish-brown, with two rather large oval patches near the centre, followed by 
a sinuated slender fascia, and an irregular submarginal row of spots, all of buffish-white. The caterpillar is 
dirty white, with a dark line down the back, and a pale one on each side. It feeds on Medicago falcata, as 
well as a kind of grass, on which it was reared by Lyonnet, whose posthumous researches contain an excellent 
memoir of this curious species. ‘The moth appears at the end of May and in June, frequenting clover-fields, and 
being a widely-dispersed and abundant species. 
Noctua TRiquETRA (Wien, Verz.; Fabricius; Hiibner; Stephens; Wood, Ind. Ent., pl. 54, fig. 57; 
Noctua fortificata, Fabricius ; Pyralis fascialis, Villars), a native of Hungary and Italy, was erroneously 
introduced into our British lists by Mr. Samouelle, in mistake for the preceding species. It has the fore wings 
ashy, with black and brown triangular spots ; and the hind wings yellowish, with a brown fasci 
a and apical 
margins. 


* Mr. Curtis has overlooked these spines in the hind feet, although he figures them in the middle tibie 
; they exist in both our English species. 

