Noctua vulpina, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 2. _p._ 39. _No._ 102. Phalæna Melicene, _Cram. tab._ 323. _fig._ C. D. HABITAT: India, Bombay (_Drury_). _Upper Side._ Antennæ filiform. Tongue small and spiral. Thorax and abdomen light brown. Anterior wings light greyish brown, and, when held in some particular directions, having a hue like mother-of-pearl. Several irregular bars, of a deeper brown, cross the wings, and the external margin is bordered with pale purple or pearl colour. Posterior wings dark liver-coloured, grey-brown at the base, and hairy. In the middle is a broad bar, of purplish white, running across the wing. On the external edge are three white square spots. The anterior wings are a little dentated; the inferior ones entire. _Under Side._ Palpi remarkably long and pointed. Anterior wings dark brown; the external edge being purplish grey, with a whitish separated bar, running from the middle of the anterior edge to the interior angle. Posterior wings light greyish brown, palest at the base, and grey at the external edge, having a dark spot at the anal angle, and a smaller faint one near the shoulders; with several indented lines crossing the wings in different places. Fabricius appears to have described this insect in his Entomologia Systematica, under three different names. It probably forms the type of a distinct subgenus in the family Noctuidæ. {43}CATOCALA EPIONE. Plate XXIII. fig. 2. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Noctuidæ, _Steph._ GENUS. CATOCALA, _Schrank_. Blephara, _Hübn._ Phalæna (Noctua), _Linn._ CATOCALA EPIONE. Alis anticis fuscis, strigis transversis dentatis ferrugineis et atris, posticis nigris, ciliâ albâ. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.) SYN. Phalæna (Noctua) Epione, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Oliv. Encycl. Méthod._ 8. 288. _No._ 190. HABITAT: New York (_Drury_). Philadelphia (_I. O. W_.). _Upper Side._ Thorax and abdomen of a sooty ash colour. Anterior wings dark chocolate, with an undulated ferruginous line, running from the anterior edge to the posterior, and near the middle of the wings; with several other lighter not very distinct marks thereon. Posterior wings black; cilia white. _Under Side._ Anterior wings, at the base, dark ash colour, which as it extends further on the wings, becomes black; and next the tips is soot-coloured. Seven white spots run along the external margin. Above them is a white line, running from the anterior edge, narrowing as it goes, and ending near the posterior; between which and the shoulders is a rather large oblong white spot. Posterior wings, next the shoulders and abdominal edges, very dark ash colour, which deepens along the wings to black; cilia white. A faint white streak runs also a little way down the wing from the anterior margin. All the wings are a little dentated. NOCTUA PALES. Plate XXIII. fig. 3. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Noctuidæ.