540 KOCT0IDJE. 



1934, Cirphis putrescens. 



Noctua putrescens, Geyer, Samml. Eur. Sclimett., Noct ff. 730-1 (1827); 



Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 301, 327-8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 192. 

 Soclua boisduvcdi, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 79, pi. 105, f. G (1827). 



Head and thorax grej-ish, more or less tinged with ochreous and 

 mixed with brown ; palpi blackish at sides ; tegulae with medial 

 black line ; a black streak near ujiper edge of patagia ; abdomen 

 ochreous white, sliglitlj- irrorated with brown. Fore wang grey 

 more or less tinged with ochreous, and with some black irroration, 

 especially on costal and inner areas ; a black streak below base of 

 cell and an obliiiue streak above inner margin before middle ; the 

 veins white defined by fine purple-brown streaks diffused on each 

 side of median nervure and medial part of vein 1 , the interspaces 

 also with purple-brown streaks ; a white point at lower angle 

 of cell ; the postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then 

 represented by a series of points, oblique below vein 4 ; a tri- 

 angular brown shade from termen below apex conjoined to another 

 triangular shade above tornus ; a terminal series of black points; 

 cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing white ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; the terminal area in female suffused with 

 brown ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with black, 

 a postmedial series of slight black streaks on the veins. 



llah. EiUTAiN, Leech Coll. ; W. & S. France, Zellcr Coll. ; Spain ; 

 Italy, Capri (C /S. Browne) ; Sicily ; Algeria ; Dalmatia ; Istria ; 

 ? W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Issyk-Xul. Exp. 32-36 raillim. 



Subsp. canariensis, Eebel, Ann. Nat. Hofin. Wien. ix. p. .58 (1894). 



Smaller ; fore wing darker, on underside with prominent discoidal 

 point. 



Ifab. Canaries, Fuerventura. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 70 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 150, pi. 203. f. 2 ; 

 Milliere, Icones, ii. p. 204, pi. 77- f. 11. 



Greyish ochreous to reddish brown ; dorsal line pale, dark-edged, 

 almost white on thoracic somites ; subdorsal and lateral lines 

 whitish, dark-edged, separated by an ochreous-brown area ; spira- 

 cular line brown ; subspiracular line pale ; head grey with darker 

 markings. Food-plants, Grasses. 10-2. 



*iy35. Cirphis herrichi. 



Lmcania herrichii, Herr.-Scbaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ii. p. 238, Noct. 

 f. 341 (1845) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 192. 



J . Head and thorax pale ferruginous mixed with fuscous ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, tinged with rufous and irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing greyish, almost entirely tinged with ferruginous 

 red, and thickly irrorated, and in places suffused, with fuscous ; 

 a black streak below base of cell ; the antemedial line oblique to 

 median nervure, excurved below cell and above inner margin, angled 

 inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform represented by slight 



