404 >-0CTUID.T3, 



1725. Perigrapha I-cincta. 



2\octna I-cinctum, ScbifF. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 192. f. 5 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 144 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 190, pi. 85. f. 2. 

 Bomh)/x cincta, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 155 (1787) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 200. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with darli brown ; tegulte with dark 

 band ; abdomen brownish grey mixed with dark brown. Fore wing 

 brownish grey, slightly irrorated and striated with fuscous ; ante- 

 medial li]]e represented by two dark points on costa and by a fine 

 pale line running obliquely with an inward curved from subcostal 

 nervure to middle of vein 1, where it is angled ; orbicular and 

 reniform very large, grey defined by yellowish white except above, 

 the former rounded, the latter extending to well below cell and 

 both conjoined to a streak on median nervure and semicircular 

 mark below the cell, these markings have black between and all 

 round them except above, shading into brown below ; postmedial 



Fig. 108. — Pericfrapha I-cincta, J. |. 



line marked by two black spots on costa, then by a grey line with 

 darker grey beyond it, bent outwards below costa, then slightly 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, 

 deiined on inner side by a fine brown line with a paler area before 

 it and by dark patches at costa and inner margin, excurved below 

 costa and angled outwards at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it 

 browner ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the underside grey irrorated with dark brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hub. Austria, Moravia ; Hungary, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 BussiA, Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 46 millim. 



Larva. Hiibn. Eur. Raup. iv. Noct. ii. Gen. H, a, b, ff. b, c. 



Pinkish, with dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral yellow lines, the last 

 with some orauge below it ; ventral surface yellow ; head red. 

 Food-plant, Rumex. 



*1726. Perigrapha prima. 



Perigrapha. prima, Smith, Tran?. Am. Ent. Soc. xriii. p. 119 (1891) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 209. 



5 . Deep bluish grey irrorated with fuscous ; frons and base of 

 tegulse yellowish ; patagia with obscure black edges. Fore wing 

 with the subbasal line hardly traceable, the costal half of basal 



