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NOCTUID.i:. 



Cerastis suhspadirra, Sfniul. Cat. Lep. Eiir. p. 110 (1871). 

 Orrhoilia conspudicra, Fiiclis. Slett. ent. Zeit. xlii. p. 130 (1901). 

 Orrhodia glahroides, Fuclis, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlii. p. 131 (190l). 



Head and thorax deep rufous ; tibise with the spurs ringed black 

 and white; abdomen grey-browii tinged with deep rufous towards 

 extremity and on ventral surface. Fore wiug deep purplish red- 

 brown striated with grey ; subbasal line indistinctly double tilled in 

 ■with grey, waved, from costa to submediaii fold ; autemedial line 

 double filled in with grey, waved, oblic|ue ; orbicular and reniform 

 irrorated with grey and defined by rufous, the former oblique elliptical, 

 the latter constricted at middle, its lower part filled in with fuscous; 

 an indistinct rufous medial line oblique from costa to lower angle 

 of cell, then incurved ; postmcdial line double tilled in with grey, 

 slightly l)ent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved 

 at discal fold and below vein 4, some grey points beyond it on 

 costa : terminal area suffused with grey, the subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of red-brown points. Hind Aving oclireous grey 

 nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia pale ochreous 

 at base ; the underside greyish suff'used and irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area suffused with rufous, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and faint diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. siihspadkeu. Fore wing rufous or brown, the grey 

 markings slight. 



Ab. 2. jiolita. Head, thorax, and fore Aving greyish fuscous, the 

 last with the markings slight ; abdomen and hind wing paler 

 fuscous. 



Ab. 3. turtur, Bang-Haas, ined. Similar, but fore wing with the 

 grey markings distinct and the veins streaked with grey. 



Hah. Eritaix {Douhleclaii), Leech Coll ; Fraxce, Sand Coll. ; 

 Gkkma-w, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. : ArsxEiA, Leech Coll. ; 

 Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzeeland ; Spain ; ? SiciLv ; licssiA 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus; W. Tcekestan* 

 Ala Tau ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. E.vp. 30-38 millira. 



Loi-va. l^leyr. Brit. Lep. p. (io ; Barrett. Lep. Biit. vi. p. 17, pi. 2^4. f. 2. 

 Yellowish brown ; dorsal line pale, indistinct ; spiracular line 

 pale pinkish ochreous, dark-edged above ; head reddish brown. 

 Food-plants: Zonu'<?rrt, Hawthorn. &c. 5-0. 



2G65. Conistra albipimcta. (Plate CVII. fig. 30.) 

 Cerastis albijnnicta, Leech, P. Z.S. 1889, p. 514, pi. li. f. 10. 



c?. Head and thorax bright rufous ; sides of frons tinged with 

 fuscous ; abdomen rufous irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing bright 

 rufous with slight dark irroration ; traces of a double waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold : a very indistinct 

 double, minutely waved antemedial line and single medial line ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform hardly traceable, very narrow, with 

 prominent white spot defined by Idiuk scales at lower angle of cell; 

 postmedial line very indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa' 

 then minutely waved, cxcuiTcd to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 



