AMATHES, 477 



cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing pale brown, the cilia whitish ; 

 the underside grey-white slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. pauli. Fore wing with the ground-colour whiter, more 

 strongly tinged with rufous. 



Hab. ? Sicily ; Dalmatia ; Armexia ; Asia Mijtok, Zeller and 

 Crowley Colls., Pontus, Cilicia, Taurus ; Palestine, 1 c? , 1 $ . 

 Kvj). 32-36 millim. 



2693. Amathes laevis. 



Orfhosia lavis, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 232 (1825) ; Hiibn. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. p. 163 (1827): Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206. 



Head and thorax pale grey-brown ; sides of palpi and f rons 

 blackish ; antennae blackish except at base ; abdomen grey slightly 

 tinged with rufous except at base and irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing pale grey-brown slightly tinged with rufous ; subbasal 

 line represented by a black striga from costa and point below the 

 cell ; antemedial line minutely waved, incurved in cell, then 

 indistinctly double ; orbicular and reniform moderate with whitish 

 annuli slightly detiiied by brown, the former round, the latter with 

 its lower part tilled in with black ; a diffused medial line oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of ceU where it is angled, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved and produced to a double series of black points on 

 the veins with whitish points between them, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by 

 rufous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and 

 slightly waved at middle ; a terminal series of black points with 

 traces of a waved line between them ; cilia with a slight fuscous 

 line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous 

 grey with a fuscous line through them ; the underside whitish 

 irrorated with fuscous, the costal area slightly tinged with rufous, 

 a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and some blackish 

 lunules on termen. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; 

 Switzerland ; IS". Italy ; S. PtussiA, Leech Coll. ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus. Exp. 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 182; Hffm. Raup. p. 118. 



Pale brown with dorsal yellowish stripe ; thoracic shield black 

 wath two white lines ; head brown. Food-plants : Low plants. 5. 



*2694. Amathes hsematidea. 



Noctua hcematidea, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 365, pi. 122. f. 5 (1827) ; Frr. 

 Neue Beitr. pi. 95. f. 4 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 49 ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206. 



2 . Head and thorax deep chestnut-red ; palpi in front and sides 

 of frons blackish ; antennae whitish at base ; pectus and legs dark 



