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small, olive-brown defined by deep red, the former round ; an 

 indistinct medial line angled at median nervure ; postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, angled outwards on vein 1, defined by olive-brown 

 on outer side, the veins beyond it more or less streaked with white, 

 some white points on costa ; subterminal line prominent, white, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and middle and excurved to tornus; a 

 fine dark terminal line ; cilia intersected with white. Hind wing 

 orange-yellow, the base, costal area, and a broad terminal band 

 black-brown, a black fascia on vein 1 ; cilia yellowish white : the 

 underside with the costal area red traversed by a black line at inner 

 edge of terminal band, a small black discoidal luuule. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the red almost entirely 

 replaced by black.— Hyeres. 



Ab. 2. aljy'ma. Pore wing obscure red-brown with the markings 

 almost obsolete ; hind wing with the orange reduced. — Germany, 

 Switzerland, Spain. 



Hah. Canada, Xova Scotia; Britain^, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand 

 Coll., Hyeres (Yei-bur)/); Germany, Zeller & Frey Colls.; Switzer- 

 land ; Spain; Italy ; Ecssia, Livonia. E.vp. 24-28 millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 87 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 226, pi. 251. f. 1. 



Green, sometimes tinged with brown and w'it^h scattered pale 

 yellowish or whitish marks, and dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular 

 series of whitish spots. Food-plant, Erica. 8-9. 



1180. Anarta cordigera, 



Koctua cordigera, Thiiiib. Miis. Xat. Ac. Ups. Diss. p. 72, pi. tI. f. 4 (1788) ' 

 Esp. Schraett. pi. 189. f. 2; Diip. Lep. Fr.vii. pi. 118. f. 2; Hiibii. Eur- 

 Schmett., Noct. ff. t)74-5 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 218; Siuitb, Cat. 

 Nuct. N. Am. p. 292. 



Noctua alhirena, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 99 (1827). 



Anarta luteola, Grote & Rob. Proc. Eut. Soc. Phil. iv. p. 493, pi. iii. S'. 5, 6 

 (1865). 



Anarta cethiops, HofTm. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 128. 



Anarta svffusa, Tutt. Brit. Noct. iii. p. 130 (1892). 



Anarta earhonaria, Christ. Iris, s'l. p. 92 (1893) ; Alpb. Rom. Mem. is. 

 p. 219, pi. 14. f. 10. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown slightly irrorated with 

 grey. Fore wing black-brown, the basal and terminal areas suffused 

 with blue-grey, the median area slightly irrorated with grey ; a 

 slightly-waved black subdorsal line from costa to submedian fold; 

 an oblique slightly-waved antemedial line ; claviform moderate, 

 defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black; the 

 former small, round, the latter large, filled in with w'hite, and with 

 a dark lunule on its upper part; an indistinct medial shade; post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, bent outward below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; a subterminal interrupted dentate black 

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

 series of small black lunules ; cilia black intersected with grey. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow ; the base with diffused black streaks ; 

 the costal area black; a broad terminal black band; cilia whitish. 



