322 



N0CTU1D.B. 



h'octua ttphro, GcTcr. Kur. Scluiicit.. Nool. f. 797 (1«27). 



JWiVi vini/ichirta,' Vrr. IJoilr. pi. '_'!. f. •-J(18."U); Treit. Sohiiiptt., Suppl. x. 



2. p. f.:>(lH;i.')) ; Diip. Lcp. tr. Siii)pl. iii. pi. 24. f. 2; Ilcrr-Schufl. K«ir. 



Schmott., Noot. f. 41.'>. 



c? . Ht'.id. thorax, and ahdonun olivc-l)rown iiiixcd with prcv ; 

 tarsi hlackish riiij;i'd with wliito. Fore wiiij; grey ^;ufitus(■d wiili 

 olive-hrown and {greenish ; Bubl)a.>ial line double tilled in with prey, 

 waved, from co.sta to subniedian fold; anteniedial line double filled 

 in with ;:rey, waved, rather oblique : elaviform small defined by 

 black : orbicular and rcniforni whitisli irrorated with brown and 

 plightly defined l)y black, the former small, round, the latter rather 

 irregular and constricted at middle ; a curved waved medial line : 

 j)oslmedi;il line double filled in with grey, bent outward.s below 

 costa, cxcurvcd to vein 4, then incurved, some white points bevond 

 it on costa; subterminal line formed of whiti.sh lunules defined on 

 inner side by small dentate black marks and on outer by slight 

 black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at 

 middle ; a terminal scries of small black lunules ; cilia ochreous 



Fig. 105. — Eumichtis Ikhciifa, J. |, 



brown with waved dark line through them. Hind wing ochrcous 

 white, the veins tinged with brown ; a slight discoidal point, sinuotis 

 postmedial line and traces of subterminal line ; a brown terminal 

 line ; cilia tinged witli brown ; the underside whiter, the costal 

 area slightly irrorated with brown, a small discoidal sjiot and 

 curved postmedial line. 



$ darker ; hind wing more or less completely suffused with 

 brown. 



Ab. 1 (tephra). Paler and greyer, without the olive shades. 



Hfifi. I?uiT.\ix, Leech Coll., S. "Wales (i/rt?-rt70 ; riiANcK, Zeller, 

 Frey, hfand, and Leech Colls.; Siwix, Aragon, ("a.-^tille, Andalusia ; 

 Sicily; l).vi.M.\riA ; Algeiiia. Kfji. 30-42 millini. 



Larva. Mcyr. Brit. Lop. p. .')3 ; Uarreft. Ix-p. Brit. iv. p. 287. pi. 107. f. 2. 



Pale dull green or l)rowlli^h with darker n-ticulations : spi- 

 racular line pale green ; bead yellowish or yellow-lirown. Fond- 

 plants : iScabiosa, JSenfcio, Jiuine.v, &.C. 11-5. 



24!)0. Eumichtis muscosa. (Plate CIV. fig. 5.) 



Ejniuda miiscpfa, Maud. Iris, iv. j). 2^1 (l!S91); id. Cut. Lop. pnl. p. 17!'. 



cJ . Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous; abdomen 

 ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish 

 Buffused with rufous and in parts with dark brown especially on 



