450 KOCTUIDJE. 



2656. Conistra gallica. 



Ccraftis gallica, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 227 (IS-")?); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 209. 

 Cerastis silciie, vnr.. Herr.-Schiifl". Eiir. Schmett., Noct. f. 571 (nee Schiff.). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed witli i^rey ; sides of palpi 

 and frons fuscous ; abdomen grey suffused w ith pale rufous and 

 .'-lightly irrorated with brown, the ventral surface with slight, sub- 

 lateral black spots on three terminal segments. Fore wing bright 

 purplisli rufous suffused with grey especially on basal area and costal 

 ;irea to postmedial line, and with slight dark irroration, the veins with 

 slight white streaks ; subbasal line represented by slight striae from 

 costa and cell with black point beyond them in cell ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double, oblique, waved, angled outwards below 

 costa ; orbicular and reniform with grey centres and grey annuli 

 slishtlv defined by brown, the former small, round, with slight black 

 points on inner or lower parts of centre, the latter narrow with some 

 black in outer and lower part of centre broken up into spots by the 

 white veins ; a red-brown medial shade, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line double, rufous filled in with grey, bent 

 outwards below costa then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the area beyond it rather deeper rufous ; subterminal line 

 grey defined on inner side by slight brown spots, somewhat angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a series of sliglit black 

 points defined on inner side by grey lunules just before tcrmen : 

 cilia rufous with fine waved white lines at base and middle. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside grey- 

 white irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged "with rufous, a 

 large blackish discoidal lunule, indistinct curved postmedial line and 

 waved dark terminal line. 



Hah. Cextral Fr.ANCE, Frey and D'Emmick Colls., Tyi-enees. 

 E.vf>. 34: millim. 



2657. Conistra silene. 



iVWwfl silene, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 85 (1776) ; Fabr. 'M.mt. Ins. ii. p. 141 

 (1787); Hiibn. Enr. Schmett., Noct. f. 175; Dup. Lep. Er. vi. p. 102, 

 ]± 79. f. 5. 



Boiiibijx vau-]>unciafum, Esp. Schmett. iii. p. ZSb, pi. 7G. f. 4 (1786) ; Stand. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 20'.). 



]\'ociiia C-nigrnni, Vill. Linn. Ent. pi. 5. f. 13 (1789), ner Linn. 



Orrhodia immacidata, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 118 (1871). 



Head and thorax rufous more or less strongly tinged witli grey 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; 

 abdomen pale rufous irrorated with fuscous, the base greyish, sub- 

 lateral black spots on three medial segments. Fore wing rufous 

 suffused with grey and with slight dark irroration, the veins with 

 fine whitish streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga 

 from costa with a .<mall black spot beyond it in cell ; antomodinl 

 line almost obsolete except towards costa, double, waved, oblique ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fine whitish annuli, the former 



