BERTHISA. 



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2382. DertMsa scoriacea. 



Bombyx scoriacea, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 83. ff. A, 5 (1786); Frr. Beitr. 



pi. 141. F. 3 ; Boisd. Icone.s, pi. 71. f. 1 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 157, 



pi. 15. f. 3; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 

 Noctua caprea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 19 (18"27). 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with brown ; teo;ulae 

 ■with slight dark medial line ; tarsi brown with pale rings ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with ochreous brown. Fore wing grey- white 

 suffused iu jiarts with pale rufous and irrorated slightly with brown, 

 the medial area suffused with reddish brown, the veins with slight 

 dark streaks : subbasal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, obliquely excurved, incurved at vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, rufous defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 with whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, its centre 



Fig. 73. — BertMsa scoriacea, (^ . \. 



suffused by brown, the latter rather produced above with brown 

 lunule in centre followed by a rufous patch ; a sinuous medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, excurved below submedian fold ; subterminal 

 line defined by an oblique fuscous patch on inner side at costa, 

 then slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, excurved at middle and incurved at submedian fold ; a 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous with a dark 

 brown line through them. Hind wing white with a fine dark 

 terminal line • the female sometimes with traces of diffused sub- 

 terminal band ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight black discoidal point. 



Hub. FE.A.NCE, Sand Coll. ; Atjsteia, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; 

 Hungary, Leech Coll. ; j!^. and Cente. Italy ; Dalmatia, Leech 

 Coll. ; Asia Minoe, Lydia, Pontus. Kvp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. Eh-bj, Butt. &. Moths, Eur. p. 215 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 92. 



Green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white ; a broad white lateral 

 stripe. Food-plants : Anthericum liliago and ramosum. 4, 5. 



*2383. Derthisa corsacovi. 



Agrotis korsaJcovi, Christ. Rom. Mem. ii. p. 35, pi. 2. f. 10 (1885), S \ 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 

 Episema pcsnutata, Christ. Eom. Mem. ii. p. 45, pi. 2. f. 12 (1885), $. 



. 6. Head and thorax very pale ochreous slightly mixed with, 

 brown ; palpi and frons at sides black ; pectus suffused with black 



