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NOCTUID.E. 



costa on its outer edge, oblique, waved : orbicular and reniform 

 large with pale fuscous centres and grey annuli, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter angled inwards on median nervure ; a diffused 

 rufous medial line with blackish striga on it from costa, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell ; post.medial line indistinctly double witli 

 two black stritc from costa, bent outwards below costa, then some- 

 what dentate and produced to slight black points on the veins, 



Amathcs litura, (^ . 



incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish defined 

 on inner side by two prominent black spots below costa, then by a 

 series of black points, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle : a slight waved fuscous terminal line ; cilia 

 with brown line near base and brown tips. Hind vring pale grey- 

 brown with slight waved terminal line ; cilia whitish with a fine 

 brown line through them ; the underside whitish grey irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct somewhat waved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. meridionalis. Paler ; fore wing bluish grey with rufous 

 or fuscous medial shade. 



Ab. 2. saturata. Tore wing suffused with fuscous from median 

 area to tcrmen. 



JJah. Epjtaix, Leech Coll. : France, Sand Coll. ; Geemaxt, Zeller, 

 Frcy, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary; Switzerland ; Spain, 

 Castile, Andalusia : Italy ; Algeria ; S. Ktjssia ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus. Rvp. 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Mevr. Brit. Lep. p. 63 : Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 344. pi. 228. f. 1. 



Dull yellowish green with darker freckles ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale, indistinct, with darker edges; spiracular line whitish 

 yellow edged with black above ; head tinged with brown. Food- 

 plants : liubiis, Sali.v, liiane.v, &e. 4-6. 



*2702. Amathes gratiosa. (Plate CVII. fig. 3.) 



Orthopia ffratiosd. Stand. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xvi. p. 70 (1881); id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 2U(>. 



Head and thorax pale rufous slightly mixed with dark brown ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish; antenna; black except at base; 

 fore and mid tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale brown 

 irrorated with dark brown. Fore wing jiale rufous thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown, the veins streaked with white : subbasal line 

 represented by slight double striae from costa and cell filled in with 



