ANTITYPE. 369 



2545. Antitype nigrocincta. 



Polia niqrocincia, Treit. Scliraett. Eur. v. 2, p. 31 (1825), & x. 2, p. 59 ; 



Fit. Beiti'. pi. 137. ff. 1-2 ; id. Neue Beitr. lii. pi. 243 ; Diip. Lep. Fr.. 



Suppl. iii.p. 257, pi. 24. f. 4 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. p. 482; 



Cari'ingtoa, Ent. 1870, p. 161. 

 Nucfua xantliomista, Hixbii. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 647(1827); Staucl. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 179. 

 Polia nlvescens, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. ed. i. p. 42 (1861). 



S • Head and thorax white and fuscous with a few yellowish 

 scales ; palpi with black bands on 2nd and 3rd joints ; frons with 

 black bar ; tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen white mixed 

 with fuscous. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with black, the 

 medial area and postraedial area down to vein 2 suffused with 

 black ; a slight yellow streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, double, waved, with some blackish suiiusion before it on 

 costal area ; claviform small, indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, whitish defined by black, and with slight yellow 

 marks on their edges, the former rather quadrate, open above 

 and below, the latter irregular ; an indistinct waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line black, difiused 

 outwardly and with series of small yellow spots on its inner edge, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly dentate at veins 4, 3, 2 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered white and 

 fuscous. Hind wing white, the veins and termen tinged with 

 black ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a 

 short dark streak in cell sometimes present, a small discoidal lunule 

 and postmedial series of points. 



2 . Hind wing wholly suffused with fuscous above, the cilia 

 white. 



Ab. 1. xantliomista. Thorax with some yellow on pro- and 

 metathorax ; fore wing paler and more olive in colour ; the yellow 

 markings much more developed especially in submedian fold and 

 above inner margin, the subterminal line broken up into dentate 

 marks. 



Ab. 2. nivescens. Much whiter, the yeUow markings moderately 

 developed. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll.; France, Sand and Leech Colls.; 

 Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Frey and 

 Leech Colls. ; Switzerland, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Spain, 

 Castile ; Italy ; S. Russia, Leech Coll. Exi). 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 54 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 300, pi. 168. f. 2. 



Brownish ochreous, tinged with orange behind ; dorsal and 

 spiracular lines pale; head pale brown. Food-plants : /Silene, Statice, 

 Plantago, &,c. 6-7. 



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