470 NOCTUIDiE. 



or (lark brown; hair on pectus dark brown: abdomen ochreous 

 with dark bands or almost wholly tsufFu'Jcd with dark brown. Fore 

 wing varying from ])ale groy-brown to l)right rufous or darki)urple- 

 brown suffused Avith grey and irrorated with brown, the veins 

 whitish ; subbasr.! line very indistinct, double, from costa to sub- 

 median fold with black point beyond it in cell; antemedial line 

 double, rufous tilled in with pale colour or greyish, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa and inwards in cell, then obliquely excurved ; 

 orbicular and I'cniforra moderate with dark brown centres and ])ale 

 annuli slightly defined by brown ; a diffused rufous medial line 



Fig. 161. — Omphaloscelis lunoM, cf . 



oblique from costa to median nervure, then slightly waved ; post- 

 medial line double tilled in with pale colour or greyish, bent out- 

 wards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area 

 sometimes with the interspaces suffused with dark brown ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by two 

 dentate black spots below costa, then by a series of small spots or 

 points, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a series of slight points just before termen ; cilia intersected with 

 dark brown. Hind wing white more or less irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous brown, a blackish discoidal lunule and diffused maculate 

 subterminal band, sometimes mostly suffused with fuscous ; the 

 underside white irrorated Avith brown, a large discoidal spot, in- 

 distinct curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Jiah. Bbitain (Barrett), Leech Coll ; France, Sand and Frey 

 Colls. ; SrAiN. Castile, Aragon ; Algeria. E.rj). 34-3S millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 3-18, pi. 1.'28. f. 2. 



Yellow-brown or green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale or 

 •whitish ; spiracular line whitish, brown-edged above ; tubercles 

 large, black. Food-plants, Grasses. 10-4, 



Genus AMATHES. ^ 



Tj'pe. 



Amafkes, Hubn. Terz. p. 222 (1827) li/i(ra. 



A(irochola, Iliibn. Vcrz. p. 220 (1827) jnshu-hia. 



y.W/(a, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. Ill (1820) circellaris. 



Anchosi-dis, Gueii. Ann. See. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 485 (1830) iiitida. 



l)i/>:ckoriKfa, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 143 (1857) i/irrs. 



iy'pvdmi, Snell. Vlind. Ned. p. 280 (1872) ruticiUa. 



Hctcromorpha, Failla-Ted. Kat. Sicil. x. p. 30(1890), nee Kirby, 



Col. 1825 rnguscB. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, friiiRed with long hair 

 in front, the 3rd joint .»<li()rt : frons sniootli : eyes large, rounded: antennae of 

 male tyi)ically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed will) hair only; the tegulae 

 produced to a dorsal ridge, the pro- and luetathorax without distinct crests ; 



