CONISTEA. 457 



terminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side bj' faint 

 dark points, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below 

 vein 3 ; a terminal series of slight dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal striga, sinuous postmedial line and fine 

 waved terminal line. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama {Pryer), 1 S type. Exp. 44 millim. 



266G. Coiiistra torrida. 



Cerastis torrida. Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1857, p. 81 ; Hen-.-Scbiiff. Neue 

 Schinett. ff. 119-120; Eebel, Ann. Hofiuus. Wien, xviii. p. 228, pi. iii. 

 f. 6 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. 



5 . Head and thorax dark purplish red-brown slightly mixed 

 with ochreous ; sides of palpi and frous blackish ; abdomen pale, 

 suflfuscd and irrorated with red-brown, the ventral surface paler 

 with dark sublateral stripes. Fore wing purplish red-brown, 

 with slight white irroration on costal area and vein 1 ; subbasal 

 line represented by a slight oblique striga from costa and patch 

 of black and white scales below cell ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, oblique, angled outwards below costa, then excurved in 

 interspaces and angled inwards on the veins to black and white 

 points ; orbicular defined by black except above, oblique oblong ; 

 reniform defined by black on inner side and above, its lower part 

 tinged with fuscous with some white on it ; an indistinct irregular 

 medial line, obli(iue from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line rather indistinctly double, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line represented by a series of slight ochreous and black 

 somewhat dentate marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, incurved in submedian interspace and defined 

 by fuscous on inner side ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 with series of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing pale suffused and 

 irrorated with dark brown, the termen slightly paler : a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia pale purplish ; the underside whitish slightly 

 tinged with purjde and strongly irrorated with brown, a blackish 

 discoidal spot aud curved postmedial line. 



Hah. S.E. Prance ; Switzerland, Valais ; C. Italy, Aquila ; 

 Sicily, Prey Coll. ; Caeniola ; Bulgaria. Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. Wullsch. Mitth. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. x. p. 289 (1900). 



Brownish red, the ventral surface yellowish ; the lines yellowish 

 white. Pood-plants : Primus spinosa and Cornus iims. 4. 



2667. Conistra rubiginea. 



Noctua rulnqinca, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 86 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 142 (1787); Hilbn. Eur. Scbniett., Noct. f. 183; Dup. Lep. Fr. tH. 



p. 137, pi. 109. f. 6 ; Frr. Nene Beitv. i. pi. 45 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 161 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. 

 ¥ociua ficierina;'E%Y,. Scbmett. iv. pi. 123. f. 4 (1788). 



