190 noctuidje. 



Ab. 1. confi.iis. Fore wing much paler. 



Hob. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Fry Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland ; 

 Spain; Italy; Greece, Merlin Coll. ; Turret ; S. Russia, Sarepta; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia ; Syria. Exp. 32-38 

 millira. 



Larva. Meyc Brit. Lep. p. 117 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 322, pi. 225. f. 1. 



Green ; dorsal line ochreous whitish ; subdorsal line irregular, 

 whitish with darker edges ; spiracular line pale yellow ; dots 

 ochreous whitish ; head very dark brown. Food-plant : Elm. 5-6. 



4545. Calymnia cara. (Plate CXLI. fig. 26.) 



Byrze.la. cara, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 188. 



Calymnia penicillata, Gross. Berl. ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 75 (1890); Stand. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 203. 



Head and thorax rufous slightly tinged with grey : pectus greyer ; 

 abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wing rufous with slight pale irrora- 

 tion, the medial area tinged with pink except towards costa and inner 

 margin; a slight oblique brownish subbasal line defined by pink on 

 outer side, from costa to submedian fold; antemedialline brown defined 

 by pink on inner side, very oblique, straight; orbicular represented 

 by a dark point, the reniform a blackish lunule w r ith deep chestnut- 

 red patch beyond it extending to postmedial line and with deep 

 rufous suffusion from it to costa before and beyond postmedial line; 

 an indistinct incurved brown line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line brown defined on outer side by pure white 

 towards costa, then by pink, obliquely downcurved from costa to 

 vein 6, then oblique and slightly sinuous ; a diffused oblique pink 

 shade from apex to middle of postmedial line with prominent 

 elliptical black subapical spot on it with black points above and 

 below it. Hind wing greyish suffused with yellow-brown ; cilia 

 white with a brown line near base and faintly tinged with pink at 

 apex ; the underside grey slightly tinged with brown, the costal 

 and apical areas with pink, a slight discoidal bar and curved 

 minutely waved postmedial line from costa to submedian fold. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, lladde, type f J penicillata in 

 Coll. Piingeler ; Japan, Tokio (Fenton), 1 $ type. Exp. 30 millim. 



4546. Calymnia ethiopica. 



Calymnia ethiopica, Hmpsn. Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 107, pi. iv. f. 14 

 (1909). 



2 . Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey-white ; palpi 

 brown, whitish towards tips ; antennae brown, whitish at base ; 

 pectus and legs whitish mixed with fuscous brown. Abdomen 

 dark brown slightly mixed with greyish. Fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous and slightly irrorated with blackish, the veins 

 slightly streaked with blackish ; subbasal line represented by a 

 slight dark striga from costa ; antemedial line black defined by 



