474 



NOCTUXD-li:. 



costa and cell -with a black point beyond them in cell ; antcmcdial 

 line very indistinct, double, minutely waved, interrupted below 

 costa; claviform absent; orbicular and reniform with slii^ht 

 ochreous annuli, their centres tinged with brown, the former very 

 small, oblique elliptical, the latter narrow and with its lower part 

 lilled in with lilack ; medial lino very indistinct, oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of ceil, then inwardly obliciue ; postmedial line very 

 indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a l)rownish bar from costa, then very indistinct, pale 

 with faint dark points on its inner edge; a series of faint dark 

 l)oints just before termen ; cilia pale rufous with fine ochreous line 

 at base. Hind wing ochreous tinged Avith brown, the veins ratlier 

 darker ; a slight discoidal lunule, traces of a jjostmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal band ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Asia Mixob, Pontus, Amasia in Coll. Piingeler, Taurus. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



2689. Amathes humilis. 



Xoctiia humilis, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. MG 

 (1787); Hiibii. Eur. Schniett., Noct. f. 170; Dup. LC-p. Fr. vii. p '^74 

 pi. 117. f. 4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 20(5. 



Head and thorax brownish grey irrorated with fuscous; sides of 

 palpi and Irons blackish mixed' with rufous. Abdomen grey 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with 

 black, the veins pale, the inner margin rufous; subbasal line 

 indistinctly double, from costa to submcdian fold ; antcmcdial line 

 indistinctly double, oblique, slightly sinuous ; orbicular and reni- 

 form large, defined by whitish, the former oblique elliptical; a 

 rather diffused fuscous medial line incurved below the cell ; post- 

 medial line double filled in Avith grey, bent outwards below costa 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line formed of grey stride 

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

 of small fuscous spots ; a fine waved black terminal line with series 

 of black points in the interspaces just before termen ; cilia tinged 

 with fuscous Avith fine grey line at base. Hind wing pale grey- 

 brown Avith darker waved ternnnal line ; cilia Avhitish : the under- 

 side Avhitish sliglitly tinged Avith brown and irrorated with fuscous, 

 a slight discoidal lunule. 



JIah. France, Leech Coll. ; liEuacM ; Gekmaxy, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Austria, Leech Coll, ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Exn. 

 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Mollis Eur. p. 182; Hffm. Eaup. ].. 117, pi. 31, 



Green with dorsal and subdorsal lines white ; lateral stripe white 

 edged Avith black above. Food-plants : Canluus acanthoideSy 

 tSonchus, and other low jdants. 5-0. 



