472 



XOCTCID-E. 



Orthosia imcis, Diip. Lep. Fr., Siippl. iii. p. W."], pi. 28. ff. 2a-G (1836). 

 Noctua saitoriiP, Fit. Xeiic Ijeitr. iv. pi. 2it2. f. 4 (1842). 



Head and thorax jrro\ -brown ; sides of i)alpi and frons blackish ; 

 antennae blackish, \\hitish at base; tegula? with slight medial dark 

 line ; tibiio with some red hair ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown dorsally irro rated \\ith fuscous. Fore wing grey-browu 

 with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line double, waved, from 

 costa to submcdian fold ; antemcdial line double, waved, the inner 

 line indistinct, with black and white ])oints l)efore it on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reuiform with pale annuli slightly defined by black, 

 the former rounded, the latter constricted at middle, its lower part 

 filled in with blackish ; a rather diffused medial line angled out- 

 wards to lower angle of cell ; postmcdial line double, bent outwards 





Fig. 162. — Amaihes riiticilla, J. j. 



below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black and white 

 points on the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line pale 

 defined on inner side by a brownish bar from costa, then bv a series 

 of black points on the veins, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 inwards in submedian fold; a terminal series of black points 

 connected by a slight waved line; cilia brown with slight pale line 

 at base. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous grey with a 

 fuscous line through them : the underside grey-white irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal luuule, strong curved postmcdial line and 

 waved terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour 

 chestnut-red. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Belgfum ; Holl.wd ; Germ.vnt, Zeller, 

 Prey, and Leech Colls.; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Hdxgary ; .Switzer- 

 land ; Spain ; Corsica : Italy ; Dalmatia ; Asia Minor, Poutus ; 

 Syria. £^7;. 28-34 millim. 



Larva. Kirbr. Euft. .^ .Alotljs Eur. ]i. 1.^1 -. m\m. Raup. j). IK). 



]irown with dark zigzag markings ; liead black. Food-plant, Oak, 

 first attacking the buds. 



Sect. II.— Antenn.'e of male minutely serrate with fasoiculate cilia. 



A. (Hc/erohiorphtt). Wings of female reduced : bind wing with the apex 

 produced and acute, the termen excised below it. 



*2687. Amathes ragusae. 



Heteromorpha ragusa, Failla-Ted. Nat. Sicil. x. p. oO, pi. 1. if. 0-7(1890) • 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. \>. 207. 



