us 



xocrciD.F,. 



2654. Conistra fragariae. 



Bomhyx- Jraijaria. Esp. Scliiiu-tt. iii. \A. 80. f. 3 (1789), & Suppl. 3, p. 40 



Staud. Cat. Lcji. |ml. p. 'M^. 

 XiK-fiia domiducd. JJorkli. Kiir. Schmett. iv. p. 113 (1792). 

 li'octiia orhoiia. Ko.^si, Maiit. Faun. Etruria. ii. p. L'3 (1794) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Sclimett., Kocl. ir. 1U4, i;04. 

 Ccra^tia iicrotina, Ocbs. Scbuiett. Eur. iv. p. 85 (1816); Frr. NeueBeitr. 



pi. 435. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed -with grey and dark brown ; 

 antenna^ pale ochrcous ; tcgula) ■with bright rufous medial line ; 

 tibia; and tarsi red-brown ; abdomen yellow banded with black, the 

 ventral surface rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing 

 rufous more or less strongly suffused with grey and slightly irrorated 

 with black, the veins of terminal half pale ; autcmedial line pale, 

 very oblique from costa to above inner margin ; orbicular and reui- 

 form large with grey annuli, the former rather oblique elliptical, 

 the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; an indistinct curved 



Fig. 159. 



-Conistra fraffari(E, (^ . 



medial rufous shade : postmedial line indistinct, grey, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and excurved at discal fold, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line grey-white defined by brown on inner 

 side and almost straight ; a terminal series of slight blackish points ; 

 cilia with a line waved white line through them. Hind wing 

 yellow almost wholly suiiused with fuscous except on inner area 

 and ternien, the terminal area darker with narrow yellow teimitial 

 band with irregiilarly waved inner edge ; cilia yellow ; underside 

 yellow, the costal and terminal area tinged witli rufous, a large 

 black discoidal lunula showing through to upperside and sinuous 

 ])Ostmedial line. 



JIah. Gehjj.^xy, Zeller, Frey. and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leecli 

 Coll. ; HL•^GAla■ ; Swit/.ehlaxd ; Italy ; Hujielia ; S.E. llrssiA : 

 Siberia ; AMnaAxn ; Japax, Yokohama {Jonas, Prycr, Manhti), 

 4 J , 2 $ . Exp. 54-00 millim. 



Larva. Kirbv, Butt. & Motbs Eur. p. 190; llfliu. Eaup. p. ll'.i, 

 pi. 32. f. G. 



Orange with brown head and black thoracic shield. Food-plants: 

 Grasses, often cannibal. 5-7. 



