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Bryophila perla, ereptricula, fraudatricula* . 



Cymatophora xanthoceros, ruficollis, diluta, bipuncta, octogesima, 

 oo*. 



Episema cceruleocephala*. E. graminis, frequent in Moell-dale, 

 sitting on heads of thistles ; found more abundantly nine years be- 

 fore on the Rossalp, where it was flying about incessantly in the 

 sunshine. In the beginning of August the moth was already worn. 

 Agrotis ocellina ; I took some specimens, with very clear mark- 

 ings, on the meadows of the Pasterze and the Moharkopf. I never 

 met with the species below an elevation of 5000 feet. Its time of 

 appearance is after the middle of July. A. alpestris, taken several 

 times in Moell-dale and on the lower Sattel. Season the same. 

 A. tritici, fumosa, obelisca, ruris, saucia, segetum, corticea, exclama- 

 tionis,forcipula*. A. suffusa*, a freshly disclosed specimen was 

 found under a stone at an elevation of 4000 feet. A.fatidica ; on 

 the 3rd of August I was crossing the grassy slopes (on which the 

 snow was lying a foot deep) behind the turn of the road above Hei- 

 ligenblut, having in vain attempted to make my way above. In a 

 little meadow where the snow was mostly melted I took an Agrotis, 

 which I supposed to be new, not remembering to have ever seen it be- 

 fore, but which, on referring to Freyer's excellent figure, proved to be 

 fatidica. It was flying with a very rapid and sustained flight, hovering 

 over the snow-covered declivities, and at last settled on the turf close 

 to me, where I caught it. A fortnight after I took a second, sitting 

 on the flowers of a Sonchus, at an elevation of 7000 feet, while the 

 former locality lay 1500 feet higher still. The Carinthian alps and 

 the very verge of the snowy region appear therefore to be the native 

 place, till now undetermined, of this rare species. 



Amphipyra tragopoginis, livida, pyramided, typica, perflua, pyro- 

 phila, lucipeta*. 



Noctua ravida, augur, sigma, baja, candelisequa, brunnea, /estiva, 

 comma-nigrum, depuncta, rhomboidea, polygona, musiva, plecta*. 

 Tryphcena comes, subsequa, pronuba var. innuba, fimbria*. 

 Hadena saponarice, perplexa, capsincola**. H. behenis (Freyer in 

 litt.), n. sp.* H. cucubali, popularis, leucophcea, cespitis, atriplicis, 

 satura, adusta, thalassina, gemina, genista, contigua, convergens, di- 

 stans, protea*. H. dentina* var. ongspurgeri, at Brettwande in Moell- 

 dale, and appears to be confined to the alpine districts. 

 Phlogophora meticulosa, lucipara*. 



Miselia ccesia, a single specimen was taken on a wall below Mall- 

 nitz. M. conspersa, comta, albimacula, filigramma, culta, oxyacanthce, 

 aprilina*. 



Folia chi, dysodea, saliceti, flavicincta, nigrocincta, advena, nebulosa, 

 herbida*. 



Trachea piniperda* is not rare, yet the caterpillar has not been 

 found to injure the plantations. 



Apamea nictitans, didyma*. A. imbecilla, only on the highest alps ; 

 ' I found it, flying in the sunshine, on the upper Sattel, where it is 

 very rare. A. latruncula, strigilis, testacea, basilinea*. 



Mamestra pisi, oleracea, chenopodii, brassicce, furva, persicaria* . 

 Thyatira batis, derasa*. 



