5:i 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 263 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 139. 

 Reddish grey, with dorsal series of reddish-brown triangular 

 spots. Food-plant, Melissa. 6. 



4355. Pyrrhia victorina. 



Heliothis viciorina, Sodofsky, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1849, p. 130; Herr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Schinett., Noct. f. 552; Frr. Neue Schmett. pi. 57G. f. 2; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 223. 

 Chariclea prazanoffzkyi, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 169 (1852). 



Head pale yellow suffused with crimson ; antennae pink with a 

 crimson bar between their bases ; thorax pale yellow with purplish- 

 pink bands on and behind tegulae, a slight oblique streak on patagia 

 and the metathorax edged with purplish ; pectus pale yellow, the 

 legs pink and the tarsi brownish ; abdomen pale yellow suffused 

 with brown. Fore wing pale yellow, the veins streaked with 

 crimson ; a very faint curved pink antemedial line from cell to 

 inner margin; a diffused pink medial line oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, incurved to submedian fold and excurved to 

 inner margin; postmedial line deep pink, rather diffused, oblique, 

 arising from costa towards apex ; subterminal line pink, arising at 

 vein 7, excurved to vein 2, then slightly incurved; a fine brown 

 terminal line, pink towards tornus. Hind wing yellowish white 

 irrorated with brown, the veins brown, the termen tinged with 

 pink ; a diffused brown subterminal band with somewhat dentate 

 outer edge ; a pink terminal line ; cilia yellowish white, the under- 

 side yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas faintly tinged 

 with pink. 



Hub. Servia ; Bulgaria (Mrs. Nicholl) ; Turkey, Leech Coll. ; 

 S. Russia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia, Caucasus, Leech Coll. ; Asia 

 Minor, Amasia, Zeller and Frey Colls. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt, & Moths Eur. p. 263 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 139. 



Green or reddish violet with darker dorsal and lateral lines and 

 small black warts. Food-plants : Salvia and Dictamnxis. 5-6. 



4356. Pyrrhia purpurina. 



Nbctua marginata, Don. Brit. Ins. v. pi. 150. f. 1 (1796), nee Fabr. 

 Noctua purpurina, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 195. f. 2 (1798). 

 Noctua rnlilogo, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 519 (1818), nee Schiff. 

 Heliothis purpurites, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 234(1826); Geyer, Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 759-763 (1833) ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 136 ; Staud. Cat. Lep! 



pal. p. 224. 

 Pyrrhia purpurago, Hiibn. Verz. p. 233 (1827). 



Head and thorax olive-ochreous suffused with purplish pink; 

 abdomen olive-ochreous, the crests, anal tuft and ventral surface 

 tinged with pink. Fore wing olive-ochreous irrorated with crimson, 

 the terminal half suffused with crimson except the postmedial area 

 towards costa and in submedian interspace, the veins streaked with 

 crimson ; subbasal line crimson, straight, from costa to submedian 



