-J (ill NOCTUIDJ?. 



2G69. Conistra daiil)ei. 



Orlhosin tJnuhci. Pup. Ltp. Fr., Siippl. iii. p. 3."1, j-.l. 30. f. T) (1838); 



titiind. Cat. Lpp. pal. p. :iU9. 

 Ccrasih hiiai, Boixl. Gen. et Incl. Metli. p. 147 (lft40); Ilerr-Scbafr. Eur. 



Sclimelt., Noct. if. 92-'J3; Mill. leoues, ii. pi. b2. if. 5-8. 



Head aiifl tliorax -whitish tin2:cd with pale rufous : Irons blackish 

 at .sides ; abdoinea ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the ventral 

 surface with slight blackish sublateral spots on medial segments. 

 Fore wing whitish more or less strongly tinged witli pale rufous and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 striga from costa with black point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line 

 very indistinctly double, interrupted, oblique, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform sometimes faintly defined by whitish, the former round, 

 the latter rarely with some black in lower and uj^i^er outer side of 

 centre ; a more or less distinct dark brown medial line, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell ; postmcdial line with black point at 

 costa, then indistinct or almost obsolete, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incui-ved ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, almost always defined on inner side 

 by small black si)ots, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle : a series of small black spots just before 

 termen. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; traces 

 of a discoidal lunule, postmcdial line and diffused subterminal band ; 

 the underside white, the costal area tinged with rufous, a large 

 black discoidal lunule and curved postmcdial series of dark points 

 on the veins. 



JMi. S. Fr-vkce, Montpellier, Zeller and Leech Colls. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 190 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 110. pi. 32. f. 8. 



Dark green with broad lateral white stripes ; head yellow. 

 Food- plant, Biuvus. 



2670. Conistra inulta. (Plate CVI. fig. IS.) 



Orthosia inulta. Grote, 6th Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 30 (1874); id. Bull. 

 BufT. Soc. >"at. Sci. ii. p. 125, pi. 1. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 221 . 



S . Head and thorax bright rufous ; sides of frons blackish ; 

 antennae white at base : ])ectus grey-black at sides ; tarsi fuscous 

 irrorated with white; abdomen brown, the lateral fringes, anal 

 tuft and ventral surface bright rufous. Fore wing pale red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey and with slight dark irroratiou, the 

 costal edge bright rufotis ; subbasal line dark purplish fuscous, curved, 

 from costa to subinedian fold ; antemedial line dark i)ur})lish fuscous, 

 obliquely curved ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform very 

 large, defined by tine rufous lines, the former olilique elliptical, 

 sometimes confluent with the latter which is slightly constricted at 

 middle ; postmcdial line dark ])urplish fuscous, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique, the veins beyond it with fine dark streaks ; 

 subterminal line rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and inciirved 

 below vein 2; a line waved brown terminal line: cilia pale rufous 

 irrorated with brown at tips. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the 

 cilia pale rufous, dark brown at tips ; the underside pale tinged with 



