AMATHES. 485 



whitish ; antemedial line double, blackish filled in with white, angled 

 outwards below costa, then evenly curved ; clavifonn absent ; orbi- 

 cular and reniform large, with whitish annuli slightly defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical ; medial line diffused, dark, 

 excurved from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; post- 

 medial line double, black filled in with white, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, incurved below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line formed of slight whitish marks, defined on 

 inner side by an oblique black bar from costa to vein 7, then by 

 small somewhat dentate black spots, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 slightly excurved at middle ; a series of black points just before 

 termen connected by a crenulate black line : cilia pale rufous with 

 two slight brown lines through them. Hind wing pale reddish 

 brown slightly tinged with fuscous ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous 

 and with slight brown line near base ; the underside whitish irro- 

 rated with brown, the costal area slightly tinged with rufous, a 

 slight dark discoidal lunule and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Asi.v Minor, Pontus, Amasia, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp., 

 <? 30, $ 34 millim. 



2703. Amathes lucida. 



Noctua lucida, Hiifa. Berl. ]\Ia^. iii. p. 302 (1767). 



Nodua nitlda, Schiff. Wieu. Vei-z. p. 8() (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 141 

 (1787); Kiibii. Eur. Schuiett., IS'oct. f. 180; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 277, 

 pi. 117. f. 5; Fit. Beitr. pi. 118; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206. 



Noctua insueta, Frr. Neiie Beitr. iii. p. 90, pi. 256. f. 3 (18o9). 



Head and thorax red-brown with a greyish tinge ; sides of palpi 

 and frons blackish, the slight crests on pro- and metathorax tipped 

 with black ; base of tihm and the tarsi fuscous ; abdomen red-brown 

 suffused with fuscous except anal tuft and ventral surface. Fore 

 wing red-brown slightly irrorated with fuscous, the veins whitish ; 

 subbasal line rei)resented by a slight black striga from costa and spots 

 in and below cell, the spot in cell further from base ; the antemedial 

 line double filled in with greyish, the outer line indistinct, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, brown with whitish annuli slightly defined by brown, 

 the former oblique elliptical ; a somewhat diffused fuscous incurved 

 medial line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line unusually near termen, double filled in with greyish and defined 

 by fuscous on outer side, excurved below costa, slightly incurved at 

 discal fold, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line represented by 

 an oblique blackish bar from costa almost conjoined to postmedial 

 line, then by a series of pale stria; with black points on their inner 

 side ; a fine waved black terminal line with series of black points in 

 the interspaces just before termen ; cilia tinged with fuscous at tips. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown w'ith a reddish tinge ; cilia with fine 

 ochreous line at base ; the underside greyish slightly tinged with 

 rufous and thickly irrorated with fuscous, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous, a blnck discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. France, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; Germany, 



