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a?. Fore wing with medial red-brown band from 



cell to inner margin nubila. 



b*. Fore wing without, medial band subflava. 



b~. Fore wing without antemedial line agatha. 



6 1 . Fore wing without postmedial line cozccritziana. 



B. Fore wing flesh-coloured hedychroa. 



4834. Mgle vespertalis. 



Pyralis vespertalis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Pjr. f. 159 (1818) ; Stand. Cat. 



Lpp. pal. p. 233. 

 AnthophUa vespevtina, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 280 (1825); Herr.- 



Scnatf. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pi. 51. f. 260. 

 Leucania vespertinalis, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 8. f. 4 & pi. 15. f. 2 



(1858). 

 Leucania matutinalis, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 8. f. 5 (1858). 



Head and thorax pale yellow slightly tinged with rufous, the 

 sides of palpi and frons, the pectus and legs strongly tinged with 

 rufous ; abdomen pale yellow tinged with brown. Fore wing pale 

 yellow ; the basal costal area tinged with rufous and the costal 

 edge rufous ; a faint rufous medial shade, oblique below the cell 

 and obsolete below vein 1 ; a slight oblique red-brown discoidal 

 striga ; an indistinct rufous postmedial line excurved below costa 

 and at middle and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line slight, 

 rufous, with wedge-shaped rufous mark from costa, then curved 

 and minutely waved ; a deep rufous terminal line ; cilia deep rufous 

 mixed with yellow and with deep rufous lines at middle and tips. 

 Hind wing pale yellow suffused with rufous except on inner area; 

 an obliquely curved diffused postmedial line ; a line rufous terminal 

 line ; cilia pale yellow tinged with rufous except towards tornus 

 and with slight rufous line at middle. Underside of fore wing 

 rufotis, the inner area whitish, the basal half of costa yellowish and 

 yellowish marks on it beyond middle and towards apex, slight 

 yellowish marks beyond lower angle of cell and a subapical patch ; 

 hind wing yellowish white with diffused rufous band from costa to 

 median nervure, slight waved postmedial line from costa to vein 5, 

 apical patch and subterminal line between veins 6 and 2. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with indistinct antemedial line from costa to 

 vein 1 , the medial shade and postmedial lines much more prominent, 

 a brown shade on termen from below apex to tornus ; hind wing 

 wholly suffused with brown. 



Hub. Hungary, Carniola ; Spain, Andalusia, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls., Cadiz (Waisingham) ; Italy, Capri (C.S.Brown); Sicily, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Pmlmatea, Zeller Coll. ; Greece; Ai.gf.rta; Rumklia; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia, Taurus ; Syria, Mardin ; 

 Persia, 2 J , 4 $ . Kvp. 26-30 millim. 



4835. JEgle nubila. (Plate CXLV. fig. 15.) 



Metoponia nubila, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 326 (1891) ; id. Cat, Lep. pal. p. 233. 



9 . Head and thorax pale yellow with a few dark brown scales ; 

 tarsi red-brown ringed with white; abdomen pale yellow tinged 



