AMATHES. 471 



abdomen doi'sally flattened, with lateral tufts of liair and some rough hair at 

 base but without crests. Fore wing with the teroien evenly curved ; veins 3 

 and f) from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 8, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Spudced). Antennae of male strongly serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a V-shaped 



fuscous patch vitzemnanni. 



B. Fore wing witli the reniform constricted at middle, its 



lower part filled in with blackish ruticilla. 



2685. Amathes vitzeiimanni. (Plate CVII. fig. 32.) 



Orlkosia witzcnmaimi. Stndf. Mitth. viii. p. 2-33 (1S90) ; Hffm. Gr. Schmett. 



Eur. ed. ii. pi. 55. ff. i a, h ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 200. 

 Orthosia suhcastanea, Staud. Oat. Lep. jml. p. 206 (1901). 



c5' . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish white ; sides of palpi 

 and frons tinged with fuscous ; antennte browner except at base ; 

 tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous. Fore wing brownish white with a faint rufous tinge, the 

 costal edge pale rufous ; autemedial line represented by some faint 

 fuscous points ; reniform V-shaped, fuscous ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, fuscous, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

 produced to slight streaks on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line very indistinct, fuscous, excurved at middle ; a 

 series of black points just before termen ; cilia whitish. Hind wing 

 grey-white slightly' irrorated with fuscous especially on the veins ; 

 traces of a curved postmedial line and diffused subterminal band ; 

 the underside white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal spot. 



§ . Fore wing slightly more tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. suhcastanea. Head, thorax, and fore wing rather pale 

 rufous. 



Three specimens in Coll. Piingeler have two or three spines on 

 the hind tibioe ; this may be an ancestral character, in which case 

 the species will be better placed in the Ar/rotince near Mytlihnna 

 <;ceclmacula. 



Hah. S.E. France, Digne, 2^,2$. Exp. 42-46 raillim. 



Larva. Lucas, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1904, p. 232, & Cbret. Le Nat. 1904, 

 p. 269 



Head reddish; 1st somite with a fine black line; abdominal 

 somites greenish, the extremity of feet reddish ; the remainder dull 

 dark green or brownish ; stigmatal line yellowish white ; dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines indistinct, pale green: warts black. Food-plant, 

 Salix caprcea. 



2686. Amathes ruticilla. 



Noctua ruticilla, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 157. f. 1 (1791) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 407 : Staud. Cat. Lep pal. p. 205. 

 Isodna serin/Hi, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 488-9 (1827) ; Dap. Lep 



Fr. vi. p.'67, pi. 76. ff. 6-7. 



