3G2 xoctuidj:. 



side, ralluT oblunie, waved ; elavitorm represented by a slif!;ht 

 diiYused tuscous mark ; orbicular and rcnil'orm large with whitibli 

 annuli defined by fuscous, the former round with more or less orange 

 at sides, the latter rather irregular with more or less orange at sides 

 and below ; traces of a diffused waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 defined by whitish on outer side, benl outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, incurved between veins 4 and 1 ; some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of somewhat 

 tlentate blackish marks on rather elongate orange spots, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and inwards iu submedian fold ; a terminal scries 

 of slight black lunules ; cilia yellowish white with series of dark 

 lunules. Hind wing white irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 curved slightly waved postmedial line and diffused subterminal band ; 

 u fine waved black terminal line ; in female suffused with fuscous 

 leaving some whitish beyond the postmedial line and on termen ; 

 the underside paler and tinged with yellowish, a small black dis- 

 coidal luuulc. 



Ab. 1. meridionalis. ^luch darker. — Spain, Corsica. 



Ab. 2. calvcscens. Much paler grey-white with hardly a trace 

 of the yellow markings. — S. IVaiice ; Italy : Sicily. 



Hab, JJKiTAix, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

 Okrmaxy, Zcller Coll. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. : Switzer- 

 land, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Spain, Castile, Andalusia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Corsica, Leech Coll. ; Italy ; Sicily ; S. Sweden ; Asia Minor, 

 Smyrna (Lederer), 2 c? , 1 $ . E.vj). 42-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. f)i ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 297, pi. 109. 



l^ale green ; dorsal line darker ; spiracular line white, some- 

 times black-edged above. Food-plants : Eirch, Rumex, Stellaria, 

 &c. 5-7. 



253G. Antitype nifociucta. 



yociita rufocincta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct, ff. 747-8(1827) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Siii)pl. iii. p. 259, pi. 24. f. 3 ; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



ff. 37, 4^3 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 80. ff. 3-5 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. 

 yodna J'arinu!>((, Frr. Js'eue Beitr. vi. pi. 509. f. 3 (1852). 

 Folia mticida, Gueii. Jvoct. ii. p. 41 (1852). 



Head and thorax white more or less strongly mixed with fuscous, 

 the metathorax sometimes Avith some yellowish hair ; tibine fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing bluish white, more or less thickly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 medial area slightly darker ; subbasal line double, waved, filled in 

 with white, from costa to su])median fold where there is an orange 

 streak V>elow it ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 filled in with white, oblicpie, waved, angled inwards on the veins ; 

 chiviform short, slightly defined by blackish, some orange beyond it 

 before the postmedial line; orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 annuli defined by fuscous and some oiange at sides, the former rather 

 ijuadrate atid open above and below, the latter open above and below ; 

 a waved medial line ; po.stmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate and j)roduced to black and white points on the veins. 



