-4 '-'4 noctuid.t:. 



Ab. 2. Ground-colour palo brownish ochreous, not tinged with 

 orange or red except at extremity of abdomen and on hind wing, 



llah. Canada {XoDnan), 'A S > ^ova Scotia (Redman), 1 cf , 1 $ , 

 Allicrta, Calgary ( WoUeji-Dod), 5 S -. Br. Columbia, Coldstream 

 Kanch (Miss liicardo), 1 S ; U.S.A. south to Virginia and west 

 to the IJocky ^lls., 4 c? , -A $ {Douhleday), 1 S type, New York, 

 2 (S . Exp. 30-48 millim. 



2717. Atethmia xerampelina. 



Xorfita xerampelina, Esp. Seliniett. iv. pi. IS."!, f. .') (170.3); Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 421 (1827); Dnp. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 249, pi. llfi. f. 1 ; 



Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. pi. 149. f. 2; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 858; 



Mill. Iconcs, pi. 33. ff. 4-7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 20.'). 

 Noctua ccnfra;io. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 2.3(5 (1809) ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 84 ; 



Stepl). 111. i3rit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. (i.x 

 Cirra'dia unicolor, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. IIG (1871). 

 Clrradiapallkla. Stand. Ins, iv. p. 299 (1891). 

 Cirrcedia maculifera, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 299 (1891). 



Head and thorax yellow suffused with rufous ; abdomen ochreous 

 yellow. Fore wing bright yellow ; the 1st line medial, straight, 

 slightly oblique ; medial area suffused with rufous except cell and 

 costal area ; orbicular absent ; reniform large, rufous, ill-defined ; 

 postmedial line straight from costa to vein 6, then oblique, the 

 costal edge beyond it rufous with pale points ; terminal area rufous 



Fig. 16G. — Aicthmia xcram2)dina, (^ . \. 



except at apex, its inner edge oblique from termen just below apex 

 to discal fold, where it is angled, then angled outwards at vein 4. 

 Hind wing yellowish white slightly tinged with rufous, especially 

 on terminal area ; the underside with the costal area irroratod with 

 rufous, traces of a curved postmedial line from costa to vein 3. 



Ab. 1. unicolor. Fore wing nearly uniform reddish Avith the 

 lines yellow. 



Ab. 2. jKdlida. Paler ; fore wing reddish or greyish ochreous ; 

 hind wing whitish. 



Ab. 3. macuUfcra. Similar, but fore wing with dark reniform. 



llah. ]inrrAiN, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech CoU. : 

 France, Zeller and Sand Colls. ; Gf.iimaxy, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 ArsTiUA, Leech Coll. ; Huxgaky, Frcy Coll. ; Switzf-ulaxd, Frey 

 <Joll. ; Spain, Castile; Bulgaria; Armknia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Jiithynia, Taurus; Syria; Palestine, 1 S . E.vp. 32-3(i millim. 



