1 ( J2 NOCTUIDiE. 



Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; AtrsiRiA ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy; Algeria {Mrs. Nicholl) ; Scandi- 

 navia ; S.W. Russia ; Armenia ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Yesso 

 {Fryer), 1 tf , 1 $ . Exj). 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 117; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 319, pi. 224. f. 2. 



Yellowish green irrorated with yellowish white ; dorsal line 

 yellowish white tinged with pink at extremities ; subdorsal line 

 formed of .yellowish-white dots, interrupted ; spiracular line greenish 

 white ; head ochreous irrorated with red-brown. Food-plants : 

 Pear, Plum. 4-5. 



4548. Calymnia affinis. 



Noctua affinis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 848 (1767); Esp. Sehraett. iv. 



pi. 134. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 201 ; Dup. Lep. Pr. vit. 



pt. 1, p. 119, pi. 108. f. 5; Steph. 111. Brit. Eat., Huust. iii. p. (il ; 



Staud. Oat. Lep, pal. p. 203. 

 Noctua palliata, Fabr. Eat. Syst. iii. pt. 2, p. 38 (1793). 



Head and thorax bright rufous slightly mixed with grey; palpi 

 white irrorated with fuscous ; antenna? fuscous ringed with white 

 towards base ; pectus and legs white, the latter irrorated with 

 brown ; abdomen grey-brown with slight yellowish segmental rings, 

 the ventral surface white tinged with rufous towards extremity. 

 Fore wing bright rufous, with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, pale, oblique, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial 

 line fuscous defined by whitish on inner side especially towards 

 costa, slightly excurved below costa, then very oblique; orbicular 

 and reniform hardly traceable, the former round with black point 

 in centre, the latter with two blackish points in centre ; medial line 

 rather diffused, blackish, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, 

 then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line brown defined by whitish 

 on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, 

 two slight whitish strise beyond it from costa ; sub terminal line 

 indistinct, pale, whitish towards costa, slightly defined by brown 

 on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; two small 

 subapical black spots followed by a terminal series of minute points. 

 Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, the terminal area broadly 

 black-brown; cilia bright yellow tinged with fuscous at base 

 towards apex and tornus ; the underside whitish tinged with fuscous, 

 the costal area and apical part of termen yellow, a faint diffused 

 medial dark band, blackish discoidal lunule, and oblique postmedial 

 line with the area beyond it black from veiu 6 to tornus. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with some whitish suffusion beyond postmedial 

 line on costal area. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing much greyer brown with hardly any rufous 

 suffusion, with or without white suffusion beyond postmedial line. 



Ab. 3. Similar, but fore wing with patches of black suffusion. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Zeller and Sand Colls. ; Ger- 

 many, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; 

 Swiizerland ; Spain ; Italy ; Greece ; Algeria ; Scandinavia ; 



