418 NOCTtlTBJE. 



1745. Monima miniosa. 



Noctua miniosa, Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 88 (ITTf)); Hiibn. Eur. Schinett., 

 ^'ot•t. f. 174; Dup. Lcp. Fr. vi. p. 138, pi. 81. f. 6; Steph. 111. Brit. 

 Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 144 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 201. 



Bomhyx rubricosa, Esp. Scbinett. ii;:. pi. 7."». ff. 3, 4 (nee Fabr.). 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; abdomen ochreous white, the anal 

 tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale yellowish, more or less 

 strongly suffused with rufous, especially on medial area between 

 subcostal nervure and vein 1, and slightly irrorated with black ; 

 traces of a pale subbasal line from costa to submcdian fold ; an 

 indistinct, oblique, waved anteraedial line defined by pale colour 

 on inner side ; claviform sometimes faintly defined by reddish ; 

 orbicular and reniform with greyish centres defined by rufous and 

 pale anuuli defined by rufous, the former round ; postraedial line 

 minutely dentate and defined by pale yellowish on outer side, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of yellowish spots defined on inner side 

 by somewhat dentate rufous marks, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of dark points ; 

 cilia tinged with pink. Hind wing white ; the veins towards 

 termen irrorated with pinkish ; a pinkish terminal line ; the under- 

 side with the costal area irrorated with pink and black, a black 

 discoidal ])oint and traces of a sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. I3ritai?7, Leech Coll. ; Fk.\nce, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Frey Colls. ; Corsica ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; Russia ; Bulgaria ; 

 Asia Minor, Poutus, Lydia. Exp. 30 millim. 



Larva. Meyr.Brit. Lep. p. 74; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 194. pi. 208. f. 2. 



Blue-grey to pale pinkish brown, reticulated with black ; dorsal 

 line yellow, irregular, edged by a series of black spots followed 

 by another of black points ; subdorsal line yellow, sometimes 

 obsolete ; spiracuiar line broad, yellow, dotted with black, edged 

 above by black spots ; head marked with black. Food-plants : Oak, 

 hawthorn, rose, etc. 5-6. 



1740. Monima ferrigera. (Plate XC. fig. 15.) 



TcBtiiocampa fcrriqera, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 78, pi. v. f. 6 

 (1894); Dyar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 1615. 



$ . Head and thorax whitish mixed with ferruginous ; antennas 

 white at base ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing ochreous white irrorated with ferruginous, the veins 

 irrorated with black scales ; the costa ferruginous, with short white 

 streaks at the lines ; the subbasal line represented by slight 

 ferruginous marks below costa and cell ; anteraedial line ferru- 

 ginous, oblique from costa to submedian fold ; claviform and 

 orbicular absent ; reniform well developed, with ferruginous centre 

 and defined by some black scales ; medial line arising from a small 

 triangular ferruginous patch on costa, then slightly curved ; post- 



