438 



TSOCTXJIDM. 



Mythimna griaea, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 150 (1829). 

 Leucania anargyria, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 132 (1840). 

 Leucania argyritis, Eamb. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 8. f. 2 (1858). 



Head and thorax purplish pink ; abdomen pinkish, paler at base, 

 the ventral tufts of male black. Fore wing purplish red, the costal 

 and inner areas rather paler and irrorated with red ; antemedial 

 line indistinct, oblique, waved ; a slight pale discoidal lunule con- 

 joined to a prominent small white spot at lower angle of cell ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, somewhat dentate and produced to a 



Fig. 120. — Sideridis lithargyria, (j". }. 



series of black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, 

 escurved to vein 4, then incurved. Hind wing pale reddish sutFused 

 with fuscous ; the cilia pale reddish, with a deep red line through 

 them. Underside suffused with silvery scales in male except costal 

 area of fore wing ; of female pale pinkish irrorated with brown, 

 the cell of fore wing suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. grisea. Thorax and fore wing greyish and only slightly 

 tinged with red ; hind wing paler. 



Hah. Bp>itain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll. ; 

 France, Cevennes {A. E. Jones) ; Geemany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls.; Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Spain, Canales (Chajwuin) ; 

 Italy ; Sicily ; Dalmatia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Lydia, Pontus, 

 Taurus ; Syria, 2 J , 1 $ ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Issyk-Kul ; 

 Tibet, Kuku-noor. Kvjc). 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 68; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 176, pi. 205. f. 3. 



Pinkish ochreous ; dorsal line white edged with black ; subdorsal 

 line whitish, edged above with deep fuscous; supraspiracular line 

 sometimes paler. Food-plants, Grasses. 9-5. 



b. Frontal tuft of male not enlarged and overhanging the palpi ; no tufts 

 of yellow hair below and between tegulse. 



1777. Sideridis albipuncta* 



Noctua albipttncta, Sdiiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 178 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Sebmett., Noct. f. 223 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 193. 

 Leucania italo-gaUica, Mill. Cat. Alp. Marit. ii. Suppl. p. 21 (1872). 

 Jjcucaniajicc/ci, Carad. Iris, ix. p. 31 (1896). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; tegulae with Slight dark medial 



