lAMrEOSTICTA. 315 



tein 4, then incurved, some white points bcj'ond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line formed of white lunules, defined on inner side bj^ a 

 series of dentate black marks and on outer by some black scales, 

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

 terminal series of small black spots connected by a fine waved line; 

 cilia fuscous intersected with white, and with slight black line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins 

 and terminal area suffused with brown leaving some whitish on 

 termen towards tornus ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a brown dis- 

 coidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. Denmark ; Gekjiant, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Corsica, Leech Coll. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Bult. & Moths Eur. p. 240; Hffin. Eaiip. p. 97. 



Bluish or greenish grey with black warts. Eood-])lant, Alopecurus 

 pratensis. G. 



Sect. II. Antenna; of male almost simple. 



. A. Fore wing with the orbicular annulate and conjoinod to a 



white annukis below cell culta. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicidar quadrate, not conjoined to an 



anuulus below cell munda. 



2483. Lamprosticta culta. 



Nodtia culta, Sehiff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 120. 



f. 4; Hiibu. Eur. Schmett., JNoct. f. 34; Dup. Len. Fr. vi. p. <%1, 



pi. 95. f. 4 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. i. pi. 93. 

 Phalana viridana, Walch, Naturf. xiii. p. 28, pi. S. ff. 5. a, h (1779) 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. 

 Mamestra adjimcta, Wlk. xi. p. 726 (1857). 



Ilead and tegulae white ; palpi black, white at extremity of 2nd 

 and 3rd joints ; frons black at sides, with black lateral bars and 

 black bar above ; vertex of head w ith black bar ; tegulse with 

 black lines near base and near tips which are black ; patagia white 

 edged with black and fringed Avith brown hair ; thorax olive-brown, 

 the crests on pro- and metathorax white and black ; tibiae white 

 spotted with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous on terminal 

 segments, the crests tipped with black, in female darker. Fore 

 wing olive-brown ; the veins streaked with white and irrorated 

 with black ; a white patch at base of costa ; the subbasal line 

 represented by two black striae from costa and one from cell, a 

 point above vein 1 and some black above inner margin near base ; 

 antemedial line double, black filled in with white, angled outwards 

 below costa, incurved in cell and excurved below vein 1 ; claviform 

 a slight black mark ; orbicular and reniform white defined by 

 black and their centres defined by black, the former irregularly 

 rounded and connected with a rounded or rather triangular white 



