ETTMICHTIS. 



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2505. Eumiclitis accipitrina. 



yuctua accipifrlna, Esji. Schmett. iv. p. 393, pi. 129. f. 4 (1788). 



Xoctua tmebrom, Esp. Sclmiett. iv. p. 4.51, pi. 142. f. 2 (1789). 



yoctua saporicB, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 410, pi. 98. f. 4 (182(1); Geyer, Em-. 



Schmett., Noct. ft". 836, 8:37; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 53; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. 

 isoctua ilich, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. pi. 292. f. 3 (nee Dup.). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with greyish ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegiiloe with black medial line ; patagia with black line 

 near edges ; tarsi fuscous Avith pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown 

 mixed with greyish and fuscous. Fore wiug red-brown mixed with 

 .greyish and suffused and irrorated in parts v:\ih. fuscous ; a sinuous 

 black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by double 

 strise from costa ; antemedial line double at eosta, then oblique, 

 somewhat dentate, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform defined 

 by black, with pale red somewhat bidentate patch beyond it and 

 black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial line ; orbicular 

 and reniform pale reddish with pale annuli defined by black, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the area beyond the latter pale reddish to 

 the postmedial line ; an indistinct irregular medial line ; postmedial 

 Jine defined by greyish on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale slightly defined 

 by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it rather darker with dark 

 streaks in the interspaces to the terminal series of lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous intersected with whitish and with pale lines at base and 

 juiddle. Hind wing \\ hitish, the veins and terminal half suffused 

 with brown, a discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, blackish 

 terminal line, and slight pale subterminal line ; cilia whitish with a 

 brown line through them : the underside whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with red-brown, a black discoidal spot, 

 crenulate postmedial line, and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hah. Fkance, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. : Germant, Leech 

 Coll. ; Spain, Castile ; Italy ; Dalmaxia ; Gkeece, Leech Coll. 

 Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 222. 



Green when yotmg, grey when adult. Food-plant, Ilex. 



2506. Eumichtis monocliroma. 



Koctua monochroma, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 1.55. S. 3-6 (1791); Staud. Cat, 



Lej). pal. p. 182. 

 NochuL distans, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., IS^oct. fF. 522-23 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 262, pi. 89. f. 4. 

 Hudena mherh, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 72 (1829); Frr. Beitr. ii. pi. 124. 



fi'. J, 2 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 268, pi. 117. ft. 1, 2. 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with some black ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulae with black medial line and black tips ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi black ringed with 



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