•IDEBIDia. 439 



line ; abdomen ochreous more or less tinged with brown, the 

 ventral tufts of hair of male black. Fore wing purplish rufous 

 with slightly darker irroration ; the costal edge whitish ; an indis- 

 tinct oblique waved antemedial line ; a small white spot at lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, somewhat dentate and 

 produced to black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa 

 and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, arising from 

 termen below apex, angled iuwards in discal and submcdian folds 



Fig. 121.— Sideridis albijmncta, (^ . \. 



and excurved between those points, the area beyond it somewhat 

 darker. Hind wing ochreous, more or less strongly suffused with 

 fuscous brown. Underside of male whitish, suffused with silvery 

 scales except costal area of fore wing ; of female pale, tinged with 

 purplish red especially towards costa and termen and irrorated 

 with brown. 



Ab. 1. italo-gaUka. Darker dull brown. 



Ab. 2. flecci. Fore wing dull grey-brown ; hind wing fuscous. 



Hab. Britain, S. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls, ; Spain ; Italy ; Rumelia ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Bithynia, Pontus ; Persia. Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 68 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 173, pi. 205. f. 2. 



Pale greyish ochreous freckled with brownish ; dorsal line pale, 

 brown-edged ; subdorsal line pale, edged above with blackish, below 

 with brown ; lateral line pale ; spiracular lino whitish ; head 

 ochreous reticulated with brown. Food-plants, Grasses. 11-8. 



B. (Sideridis). Abdomen of male witbout paired ventral tufts of long hair 

 from base. 



a. Fore wing yellow snfTused slightly with rufous vifellinc. 



b. Fore wing greyish suifuscd with rufous. 

 a}. Fore wing not striated with rufous. 



a^. Thorax deep rui'ous rosea. 



b^. Thorax pale rufous evidens. 



6'. Fore wing striated with rui'ous norrtia^ii. 



c.^Fore wing deep rufous congermana. 



d: Fore wing deep purple-red ruhejacta. 



e. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated with fuscous ccesia. 



/. Fore wing white with a violaceous tinge cximia. 



