AMATHES. 483 



'Spain; Corsica; Italy; ErrssiA, Livonia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus ; W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai Mts. Exp. 

 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 02 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 335, pi. 226. f. 2. 



Brown, brownish green, or reddish ochreous ; dorsal line whitish, 

 indistinct; spiracular line broad, white. Food-plants: Oak, Elm, 

 Hazel, &c. 4-6. 



-Sect. III. {Dyscliorida). Antennae of male ciliated. 



A. Hind wing uniformly tinged with fuscous. 



rt. Fore wing with black bars from costa at the lines litura. 



h. Fore wing without black bars from costa at the lines. 

 ci^. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins. 



a^. Fore wing witli the anteiuedial line angled outwards 



below costa, thi-n excu rved ffratiosa. 



IP'. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, waved. 



o?. Fore wing witli the markings distinct lucida. 



/)•'. Fore wing with the markings mdistinct delcta. 



//. Fore wing without pale streaks on the veins. 



ar. Fore wing with tlie postmedial line strongly dentate, inansueta, 

 Ir. Fore wing with the ])ostuiedial line minutely 



dentate iiicrs. 



B. Hind whig fuscous with the costal area pale plicEosovia. 



C. Hind wing fuscous with the veins reddish iiumacidata. 



D. Hind wing greyish more or less tinged with fuscous and 



with diffused dark subferminal band. 

 u. Fore wing with black bar from costa at subterminal line. 2)icrpurea. 

 b. Fore wing without black bar from costa at subterminal 

 line. 



rd. Fore wing with the orbicular figure-of-8 siiaped amiricana. 



/d. Fore wing with tlie orbicular quadrate, open above ... ^;«;'a. 



E. Hind wing yellowish wiiite. 



a. Fore wing with series of small black spots on inner side 



of subterminal line ralla. 



h. Fore wing without black spots on inner side of subterminal 

 line. 



a\ Fore wing with the markings dark brown inops. 



b^. Fore wing with the markings pale rufous decipiens. 



2701. Amathes litura. 



Noctua litura, Linn. Faun. Suec. ed. ii. p. 320 (1761); Esp. Sclmiett. iv. 



pi. 177. ff. 4-5; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Xoct. f. 127; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 104, pi. 79. f. 6 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 335 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 145 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207. 

 Nochic, polluta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 127. f. 5 (1788). 

 Noctua ornatrix. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., ]N"oct. f. 843 (1827); Frr. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 95. f. 1. 

 Orthoda meridionalis, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 117 (1871). 

 Or^//04;ia/>orertfe,Sparre-Schnieder, Forh.Vid. Sels. Christ. 1882, no. 1, p. 69. 

 Orthosia saturata, Schultz, Illustr. Zeitsch. Ent. v. p. 349 (1900). 



Head and thorax grey-brown suffused with rufous ; tips of palpi 

 and sides of frons blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown. Fore wing grey suffused with reddish brown and 

 irrorated with brown especially on basal area ; subbasal line black, 

 from costal to siibmedian fold, with black point beyond it in cell; 

 autemedial line indistinctly double, with prominent black striga from 



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