134 SYNTOMID^. 



spots reduced, any or all of them may be absent. Exp. 20-22 

 millim. 



Hah. S. Europe, Italy, Leach Coll. 



Subsp. 4. parvigntta, Christoff, Verb. Ver. BriJnn,xxvii. p. 11 (1889) ; Rom. 



Mem. T. p. 63, pi. 1. f. 5. 

 Differs from the form hyalina in the fore wing having the medial 

 spots reduced ; the subcostal and upper subterminal spots absent. 

 Hah. AcHAL Tekke. 



Subsp. 5. modesta, Krulikowsky, See. Ent. ix. p. 161 (1895). 

 Differs from typical form in the spots on fore wing being hyaline 

 yellow. 



Hah. AsTEAZAN, Kinel Mts. 



251. Dysauxes an cilia. 



Noctua ancilJa, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p. 835 (1766); Esp. Sclimett. iv. 



p. 51, pi. 85. flP. 1, 2; Hiibn, Eur. Schmett. iii. ff. 114, 245; Ochs. 



Sclimett. Eur. iii. p. 157 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 379, pi. 39. ff. 2, 3 ; Staud. 



Cat. p. 60; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 107. 

 Bombyx obscura, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. p. 206 (1781). 

 Tinea qnadrioculata, Goeze, Ent. Beytr. iv. (4) p. 126 (1783). 

 Phalwna lemopicta, Fourcr. Ent. Paris, ii. p. 302 (1785). 

 Thalmna tripu7ictata, Scop. Faun, Flor. Insubr. ii. pi. 21. f. iii (1786). 



S ■ Fulvous brown ; head and abdomen orange, the latter with 

 a dorsal series of browu spots. Fore wing with a small round post- 

 medial hyaline spot below the costa ; two large spots iu the inter- 

 spaces between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with the inner margin 

 orange. 



5 . Fore wing with a speck below the subcostal spot. Hind 

 wing with ihe whole area below the cell orange, and joined by a 

 curved postmedial band crossed by the dark nervures. 



Hah. France ; Belgium ; Germany ; Italy, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; 

 E. Europe. E.ip. 28 millim. 



*252. Dysauxes syntomida. 



Nadia syntoviida, Staud. Deutsche Ent. Zeit., Lep. it. p. 218 (1892), and 

 vi. pi. 1. f. 9. 



cJ . Head and thorax black, tegula? and patagia yellow ; hind 

 tibiae and tarsi tinged with orange ; abdomen orange, the 1st seg- 

 ment and part of 2nd dorsally black, followed by a series of black 

 spots. Fore wing with the basal half semihyaline, with the median 

 nervure and costal and inner areas yellow ; a quadrate black spot 

 below base of cell ; the terminal half black, with large yellowish 

 semihyaline patch between veins 3 and 7. Hind wing hyaline, the 

 inner margin orange ; a terminal black band narrowing from costa 

 to a point at vein 1, its inner edge somewhat sinuous. 



Hah. Kurdistan, Mardin. Exp. 24 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Staudinger. 



