404 xocTuin^. 



1725. Perigrapha I-cincta. 



JSoctua I-cinctum, Sohiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Esp. Scbmett. iv. 



pi. 1VI2. f. 5 ; Hiibn. Eur. Scliniett., Noct. f. 144 ; Dup. L6p. Fr. vi. 



p. 190, pi. 85. f. 2. 

 Bomhyx cinda, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 155 (1787) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 200. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown ; tegula) with dark 

 band; abdomen brownish grey mixed with dark brown. Fore wing 

 brownish grey, sliglitly irrorated and striated with fuscous ; ante- 

 medial line represented by two dark ]wints on costa and by a fine 

 pale line running obliquely with an inward curved from subcostal 

 neivuro to middle of vein 1, where it is angled ; orbicular and 

 renilbrm very large, grey defined by yellowish white except above, 

 the former rounded, the latter extending to well below cell and 

 both conjoined to a streak on median nei'vure and semicircular 

 mark below the cell, these markings have black between and all 

 round them except above, shading into brown below ; postmedial 



Fig. 108. — Perigraphu I-cincta, S . 



1 



line marked by two black spots on costa, then by a grey line with 

 darker grey beyond it, bent outwards below costa, then slightly 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line pale, 

 defined on inner side by a fine brown line with a paler area before 

 it and by dark patches at costa and inner margin, excurved below 

 costa and angled outwards at veins 4 and 3, the area beyond it 

 browner ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown ; the underside grey irrorated with dark brown, a dark 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ilab. AtrsTRiA, Moravia ; Hungari', Zeller, Fray, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Russia, Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp, 46 millim. 



Larva. Hiibn. Eur. Eaiip. iv. Noct. ii. Gen. H, a, b, ff. b, c. 



Pinkish, with dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral yellow lines, the last 

 with some orange below it ; ventral surface yelloAv ; head red. 

 Food-plant, Jiumex. 



*1726. Perigrapha prima. 



Perigrapha prima, Smith, Trims. Ara. Ent. Soc. xviii. p. 119 (1891) ; Smith, 

 Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 209. 



2 . Deep bluish grey irrorated with fuscous ; frons and base of 

 tegulne yellowish ; patagia with obscure black edges. Fore wing 

 -v\ith the subbasal line hardly traceable, the costal half of basal 



