MYTHIMNA. ^05 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 107; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 225, pi. 214. f. 1. 



Pale green, or reddish ochreous with darker irroration ; pale 

 dorsal and sometimes subdorsal lines ; a lateral series of dark 

 oblique streaks sometimes present ; spiracular line pale greenish or 

 whitish ; head greenish. Pood-plants : Saliv, Rumex, Plantago, 

 etc. 5-7. 



Sect. II. {Orthosia). Antenn£e of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with tlie grouucl-colour red-brown ruhricosa. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a. Fore wing with the lines distinct ccecimacula. 



h. Fore wing with the lines indistinct mnex. 



1051. Mythimna ruhricosa. 



Xoctua ruhricosa, Schiff.Wien.Verz. p. 77 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 176 

 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 430 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 99, 

 pi. 79; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 160; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 153. 



Nuctua mucicla, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 148. f. 4 (1786). 



Noctua ■pUkornis, Brahm. Ins. Ii. p. 19-3 (1791). 



Noctita rufa. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 232 (1803). 



Soctua mista, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 509 (1827). 



Head and thorax purple or red-brown suffused with grey ; palpi 

 blackish except at tips ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dark 

 brown. Fore wing dark red or purple-brown suffused with grey ; 

 a waved suhbasal line from costa to suhmedian fold ; an oblique 



Fig. 100. — Mi/thiiiina ruhricosa, (5. 



waved antemedial line defined by grey on outer side ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by brown, the former round, the latter with some 

 fuscous in its lower extremity ; an indistinct waved medial shade 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; the post- 

 medial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, defined b}' 

 grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, slightly angled 

 inwards in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4 ; some whitish 

 points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line brown, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 scries of blackish points ; cilia brown, with a grey line through 

 them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia tinged with pink ; the 

 underside pale thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. rufa. Much redder. 



One specimen has an oblifjue bar between vein 8 and middle of 

 cell of hind wing. 



