486 NOCTUID.IC. 



Zcllcr and Leech Colls.: Austria, Leech Coll.; Hungaky, Leech 

 Coll.; SwiTZEKLAND, Zeller and Trey Colls.; Italy; Sicu-y ; 

 SwKDKN ; Armenia ; Asia Mixor. Pontus. Earp. 30-38 millini. 

 Larva. Kirbv, Butt. & Motbs Eur. p. !82; IIlT.n. IlMup. p. 117, pi. 'M. f. 21 

 Olive-.ereen Avith dorsal series of dark V-shaped marks ; dor.^al 

 and siihdorsal lines white ; stigmatal stripe hright green ; warts 

 and hairs hlack. Food-plants : Itxmicx, Primula, and other low- 

 plants. 5. 



2704. Amathes deleta. (Plate CYIL fig. 4.) 



Orilmia delcia. Stand. Hor. Soc. Ent. Koss. xvi. p. 75 (1881) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



p:il p. 206. 

 OrthoHU dvcolonda, Stand. Cat. Lep. ])al. p. 20G (1901). 



S . Head, thorax, and ahdomen pale nxfous, the hair on pectus 

 and hase of abdomen greyish. Fore wing pale rufous, the veins 

 rather paler ; subbasal line very indistinct, pale, waved, from costa 

 to suhiiiedian fold ; antemedinl line indistinct, oblique, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and excurved 

 in sxibmedian interspace ; orbicular and reniform large, slightly 

 defined by white, the former oblique elliptical, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle : an indistinct waved rufous medial line ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, pale, sliglitly defined by small brown spots on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 4 : subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side 

 by slight dark spots, somewhat angled outwards at veins G and 3 ; 

 a fine waved dark line just before termen ; cilia with fuscous line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish almost uniformly suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; cilia whitish tinged with ])ink : the underside 

 whitish tinged with pink and slightly irrorated with rufous. 



Ab. 1. decolorata. Paler ; fore wing reddish grey. 



Hah. Armenia, 1 J ; Asia. Minok, Pontus, Taurus. Exp. 

 34 millim. 



*2705. Amathes mausueta. 



Ccraxtia manmcta, Herr.-Scliaff. Eiir. ScLmett, ii. p. 322, ICcct. f 473 



(1845) ; Stand. Cat. Lop. pal. p. 206. 

 Orthopia ]>:.ntiva, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206 (1001). 



Head and thorax grey-white slightly mixed with brown and 

 faintly tinged Avith rufous; ])alpi and lower part of frons black ; 

 antenna' hlack ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with black. Fore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and tinged Avith 

 olive-green, the medial area beloAv the cell pale rufous; subliasal 

 line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, with some blackish 

 suffusion beyond it on costa ; antemedial line double, irregularly 

 waA-ed, rather oblique, angled iuAvards on vein 1 ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former very small, 

 round, the latter constricted at middle and filled in Avith blackish ; 

 a Avaved medial line, olilique from costa to median nervure ; post- 



