340 NOCTClDiE. 



250'J. Eumichtis roboris. 



Soctua roboris, Illibn. Eur. Scliiuctt., Xoct. f. 847(1827); Boisd. Iiul. 



Meth. p. 72 (1829); Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 292. f. 2; Dup. Lcp. Fr., 



Suppl. lii. p. l.j'.), pi. i:.. f. 4 ; Ilerr.-Sclmir. Eur. Scliinett., Noct. f. ^2 ; 



Siaud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. 

 HaiUn,, ccrris, Boisd. liid. iletli. p. 121 (1840); HeiT.-Schaff. Eur. 



!>cliiiR'tt., Noct. f. l.')3. 



Head and thorax brown nii.xed with grey ; frons with black 

 bar ; teguloe with strong medial black line ; patagia with some 

 black scales near upper edge ; tarsi banded with Idack ; abdomen 

 grey irroratcd and suffused with fuscous, the dorsal crests tipped 

 Avith black. Fore wing olive-green mixed witli rufous, the terminal 

 area often whitish, the veins with slight dark streaks; subbasal 

 line double, angled inwards in cell and ending at vein 1 : ante- 

 medial line double, the inner line indistinct, angled outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely excurved ; claviform broad and trun- 

 cate, defined by black except above, with bidentate pale mark 

 beyond it and black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform large, greyish, tinged with brown and 

 defined by black, their centres defined by fuscous, the former 

 elliptical : postmedial line double at costa, then single, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, usually defined by small dentate dark marks on inner 

 side, excurved below costa and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, 

 a black mark beyond it extending to termen ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing whitish largely suffused with 

 brown, especially on the veins and terminal area, in female nearly 

 uniformly suffused ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 a black discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. cerris. Greyish, Avithout the olive-green tinge. 



Hah. France ; Germ-WT, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Atstrh, 

 Tyrol ; HuiNG.vet, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Sr.ux, Andalusia, 

 Catalonia ; Sardinia ; Sicily ; Istria ; I)alm.\tja ; ^Iacedoxia ; 

 Asia Minor, Taurus, Pontus. E.vp. 2(3-34 inillim. 



Larva. Kirbv, Butt, .t Moths Eur. p. 222 ; Ilirm. Kiiup. p. 94. pi. 20. 

 f . 20. 



Keddish grey, with dorsal pale line and dark curved transverse 

 lines ; subdorsal line fuscous ; lateral line brown. Food-phmt, 

 Quercus. 



*2510. Eumichtis contermina. ^^^late CiV. tig. 12.) 



Bryobota contermina, Gras. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 308; Staud. C.it. 

 Lep. pal. p. 182. 



iJIHead and thorax brownish grey slightly mixed with brown ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish ; tegula) witli strong black line 

 near tips ; patagia edged with blackish ; ])rothoracic crest with 

 blackisli line near tips; tarsi with blackisii bands; abdomen grey 

 suffused and irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey tinged and 



