. The Aurelian : a natural history of English moths and butterflies, together with the plants on which they feed. Lepidoptera. 33 This insect has much of the habit of the Humming-Bird Hawk Moth; frequenting gardens, and hovering over flowers, from which it extracts the honey by means of its long and spiral tongue. N^ENIA TYPICA. THE DARK GOTHIC MOTH. Plate XXII. fig. d—g. Synonyms. Phalsena (Noct.) Typica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 857. Albin's Ins. pi. fig. 21. a—d. Noctua Venosa, Hubner. Nsenia Typica, Stephens. Mania Typica, Treitsch/ce. Upper Side. The antennae are like threads. The thorax a
. The Aurelian : a natural history of English moths and butterflies, together with the plants on which they feed. Lepidoptera. 33 This insect has much of the habit of the Humming-Bird Hawk Moth; frequenting gardens, and hovering over flowers, from which it extracts the honey by means of its long and spiral tongue. N^ENIA TYPICA. THE DARK GOTHIC MOTH. Plate XXII. fig. d—g. Synonyms. Phalsena (Noct.) Typica, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 857. Albin's Ins. pi. fig. 21. a—d. Noctua Venosa, Hubner. Nsenia Typica, Stephens. Mania Typica, Treitsch/ce. Upper Side. The antennae are like threads. The thorax and abdomen are brown, crested with tufts of hair. The superior wings are brown, and divided by white lines into small squarish compartments, some of them appearing like arches. The inferior wings are brown and plain. The under side is pale brown, having some darkish strokes crossing the wings; the tongue is spiral. The upper side is seen at (f), and the under side at (g). The caterpillars are found the beginning of April, at the roots of nettles, or the bottom of the stalks of water betony, which grows against banks: when full fed they appear as at (d); and change into chrysalides, in a web, on the surface of the earth, the beginning of May; and the moths appear in one month after. The chrysalis is shewn at (c). Expansion of the wings one inch and a half. HEPIALUS SYLVINUS. THE LARGE ORANGE, OR EVENING SWIFT MOTH. Plate XXII. fig. %—m. Synonyms. Phalsena (Noct.) Sylvina, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 834. Hepialus Sylvinus, Ochsenheimer, Stephens. Curtis Brit. Ent. pi. 185. Duncan Brit. Moths, pi. 14. fig. 1. Hepialus Lupulinus, Hubner, Haworth. Golden Swift, Harris's Exposition, pi. 4. Large Evening Swift, Ditto, pi. 13. fig. 6. Phalsena (Noct.) Hecta, Harris's Aurelian, \st edit, (sed nee Linn.) Hepialus Crux, Fabricius. Upper Side. The antennae are very short, scarcely perceptible. The thorax and abdomen appear of a yellow brown, covered with ragged hair. The wings ar
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