360 



NOCTUID.E 



2o3;J. Antitype polymita. 



Koclun p'fi/iiiitu, Linn. Fimii. Siiec. p. .CI i ITt'l); Esp. Schinttt. iv. pi. 17^*. 



f. 4; Frr. Neiie Beitr. iii. pi. *J(51 ; iJuj). Lvp. h'r. vi. p. 417, pi. !''•. 



f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pnl. p. I7'.t. 

 Ifoctua rideiig, Iliibn. Kiir. Schinelt., Noct. f. 20 (1827). 



S. Head and tliorax olivc-iireen nn.xcd with wliitisli ; tegula^ 

 with slight dark rut-dial line ; jiatagia edged Avith wliite in front and 

 above; crests on pro- and metathorax ti])ped with white ; tibiae and 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey siifTused with olive-green. 

 Fore wing olive-green irrorated with wliite ; a small white-tipjjed 

 tuft of scales at base ; subbasal line double tilled in with white, 

 angled inwards in cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line defined by white on inner side, oblique, waved, angled outward> 

 below costa and above inner margin ; claviform defined by black 

 below and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform with incomplete 



Fig. 119. — Antitype 2X>lymita, (^ . 



white anuuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with 

 some white in centre and irregular outline ; a dentate medial line 

 angled outward on median nervure, then oblique; postmedial line 

 defined by white on uutcr side, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to black points on the veins, incurved below 

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

 dentate, white defined by small dentate black marks on inner side, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7, excurvtd at middle and incurved 

 in submedian interspace : a terminal series of small black lunulos ; 

 cilia chequered yellowish white and blackish. Hind wing white : 

 the veins tinged with fuscous : a difiused brownish siibtorminal 

 band, somewhat dentate at middle ; a Avaved black terminal line : 

 cilia tinged with brown from apex to vein 'J ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule, a 

 slight postmedial line from costa to \e\n G. 



2 . Hind wing wholly tinged with brown, the underside irrorated 

 witii brown, a curved postmedial line. 



J/ah. Fraxc K, Leech Coll. : (Jfioiany, Zeller Coll. ; A^^THrA. Frey 

 Coll. ; HuNGAKV, Zeller and Leech ColLs. ; Sicily ; ])almatia, Lee( li 

 Coll.; Scandinavia, K^orway, Frey Coll.; Balkan States; S.AN'. 

 Russia. Kvjt. 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby. Butt. & iloths Eur. p. 223. 



Dull rose-colour; dorsal and subdorsal lines white; a diffused 



