198 NocTtriD-as. 



4557. Calymnia trapezina. 



Noctua trapezina, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 510 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 87. £f. 2, 3; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 2U0; Dup. Lep. Fr. Tii. 



pi,. 1, p. 113, pi. 108. ff. 1, 3; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 62; 



Fit. Neue Eeitr. pi. 624 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 204. 

 Calymnia, badiqfasciata, Teich. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1883, p. 173. 

 Calymnia ohscura, Auriy. Nord. Fjar. p. 161 (1888). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with, rufous and slightly mixed 

 with brown ; pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous slightly tinged with brown ; the anal tuft tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing ochreous irrorated with brown, the basal and 

 postmedial areas suffused with whitish, the medial and terminal 

 areas with rufous ; subbasal line faint, brownish, from costa to 

 submediau fold ; antemedial line brown defined by white on inner 

 side, very oblique and almost straight ; orbicular and reniform 

 with rufous centres and yellow annuli faintly defined by fuscous, 

 the former small, round, the latter narrow, its upper extremity 

 omewhat bent outwards and with a small black spot in lower 

 extremity ; an indistinct diffused red-brown medial line, oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line white slightly denned on each side by brown, oblique from 



Fig. 71. — Calymnia trapezina, <$ . \. 



costa to vein 6, inwardly oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line 

 yellowish, slightly defined on inner side by brown especially on 

 costal area, oblique towards costa and very slightly excurved at 

 vein 7 and middle ; a terminal series of slight dark points ; cilia 

 rufous tinged with brown. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 brown especially on terminal area ; a terminal series of dark striae ; 

 cilia yellow with a brown line through them ; the underside whitish 

 tinged with brown, the costal area tinged with yellow and irrorated 

 ■with brown, the terminal area suffused and irrorated with brown, 

 a brown discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line except on 

 inner area. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ground-colour bright rufous. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing pale yellow slightly tinged with rufous, 

 especially on medial area. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing ochreous white slightly suffused with brown 

 especially on medial area. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing ochreous white irrorated but not suffused with 

 brown. 



