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noctuid^:. 



fold ; antemcdial line crimson, excurved below costa and cell, angled 

 inwards on median nervure and ending at vein 1 ; claviform very 

 faintly defined by crimson ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by 

 crimson, the former round with some crimson scales in centre, the 

 latter with its upper extremity produced and with crimson suffusion 

 in centre ; a strong crimson medial line oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line crimson, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique and slightly sinuous below vein 6, 



Fig. 16. — Pyrrhia pmrpurina, J • }■ 



some slight olive points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 crimson, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2 ; a fine 

 crimson terminal line ; cilia olive suffused with crimson and with 

 slight crimson line near base. Hind wiug ochreous tinged with 

 brown except towards costa ; the veins and an indistinct discoidal 

 lunule brown ■ the terminal area broadly brown, the termen tinged 

 with crimson ; cilia ochreous tinged with crimson at base ; the 

 underside olive-ochreous, the costal ai'ea irrorated with crimson, 

 slight diffused medial and postmedial crimson lines on costal area, 

 a small brown discoidal spot. 



Hah. Hungary, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Kumelia ; 

 S. Russia, Leech Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p 263 ; Hffm. I&up. p. 139, pi. 36. f. 3. 



Yellow or dark apple-green or brownish red with dark warts, 

 dorsal line dark; two yellowish subbasal lines. Food-plants: 

 Centaurca scabiosa and Succisa pratensis. 5. 



4357. Pyrrhia umbra. 



Phalana umbra, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p 294 (1767) ; Hmpsn. Moths. Ind. 



ii. p. 172 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 216 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 224. 

 Noctua marginata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 610(1775); Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



pt. i. p. 319, pi. 119. f. 8;' Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Faust, iii. p. 108. 

 Foctua rutilago, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 86 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 185. 

 Koctua conspicua, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 123 (1792). 

 Noctua umbrago, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 185. ff. 7, 8 (1796). 

 Noctua marginago, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 235 (1S09). 

 Heliofkis cilisca, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 179 (1852). 

 Heliothis exprimens, Wlk. xi. 687(1857) ; Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. 



ii. p. 35, pi. iii. f. 5. 

 Pyrrhia ayigulata, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. v. p. 93 (1874) ; id. Bull. 



Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. pi. iii. f. 6 (1S75). 



