454 NOCTUIDiE. 



Hah. S. France; Gebmaxy, ZcUer Coll.; Austria, Leech Coll.; 

 lIuKGAUY, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Switzerland ; Italy ; Macedonia ; 

 Asia Minor, rontus. Exp. 30-40 niillira. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 18'J ; Hffm. Kaup. p. 110. 



Dark brown witli very line pale dorsal and subdorsal lines ; head 

 black. Food-plants, various low herbs. 



2662. Conistra vaccinii. 



2\uciua vaccinii, Linn. Faun, tsueo. p. 520 (1761j ; Esp. Scbniett. iv. p. 92, 



pi. IGl. ff. 1-6; Ilubn. Eur. .Scbinett., Noct. f. 177; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



pi. 79. f. 1 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. i. pi. A{\ ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. 



p. 1(51 ; Staud. Cat. Lcp. pal. p. 209. 

 yoctua sjjndicea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 86 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schinett., 



Noct. f. 179 (1827) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 162 ; Cappul Tijds. 



T. Ent. xlii. p. 39, pi. 2. f. o. 

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

 Orrhodia scbdoucnsis. Aust. Le Isat. 188U, p. 221. 

 Orrhodia signuta, Klem. Spraw. Ktnu. Fizyogr. xxxiii. p. 141 (1898). 



Head and thorax bright chestnut ; abdomen pale rufous. Fore 

 wing bright chestnut ; subbasal line formed of white scales, slight, 

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

 double, with some white scales on it, oblique, waved ; orbicular and 

 reiiiform large, with slight pale annuli deHned by deeper rufous, the 

 former oblique* elliptical, the latter somewhat constricted at middle 

 and with its lower part filled in with fuscous ; a slight rufous 

 medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; 

 l)ostmedial line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved and w^ith slight white points on the veins, incurved 

 at disoal fold and below vein 4, some minute whitish points beyond 

 it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner 

 side by a series of small rufous spots, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the veins beyond it with slight dark 

 streaks ; a slight waved terminal rufous line ; cilia rufous with a 

 slight brown line tlirough them. Hind wing pale rufous irroratod 

 and sufiused with fuscous brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line and ditl'used subterminal band ; cilia grey tinged with pale 

 rufous ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, the costal area 

 suffused with rufous, a slight dark discoidal lunule, sinuous post- 

 medial line and slight subterminal shade except towards apex. 



Ab. 1. sehdoueiisis. Fore wing with the lines hardly traceable, 

 subterminal and terminal series of black points. — Algeria. 



Ab. 2. sujnata. Fore wing with the stigmata and subterminal 

 spots black. 



Ab. '6. spadicca. Fore wing paler rufous, the lines distinct, pale 

 defined by red-brown or black. 



Ab, 4. r>'ivta. Fore wing irrorated with grey-white, the veins 

 streaked with grey-white, some pale suffusion before subterminal 

 line. 



Jlab. Britain, Forres, Salvage Coll., England (Douhle la>f). Leech 

 Coll.; Fra.vce, Sand Coll.; De.nmark, Leech Coll.; Germany, 



