498 



NOCTPTD.10. 



with the apex producod and acute, the ternien cxcuryed at middle, then 

 oblique ; veins 3 and .'i from near angle of cell ; Ci from upper angle ; 1) from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areola; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3. 4 from angle of ceil ; ."> obsolescent from middle of discocelhilars ; 

 (>, 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. (Ochria). 



Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



ai(raffO. 



A. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas purplish red... 



B. Fore wing with the ba.-al and terminal areas pale yellow. 

 a. Fore wing with indistinct line just bej'ond the double 



postmedial line jyallidxigo. 



h. Fore wing without line beyond the double postmedial line. siphu?icula. 



2721, Cosmia aurago. 



Xoctita auroqo, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 8() (177(>) ; Fabr. IVIant. Ins. ii. 



p. 159 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 106, 107 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii. p. 4.')3. pi. IL'8. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent, Haust. iii. p. K^b : Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2U7. 

 Noctua pratexta, Esp. Schmett. ir. pi. 124. f. 2 (1788). 

 Nocttiafucaia, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 124. ff. 3, 4 (1788). 

 Noctua rutilago, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 074 (1792) ; 



Hag. 

 Ges. Schmett. pi. 2. f. L. 



(1792); Hiibn. Beitr. 



Head and tliorax orange-yellow largely suffused with rufous : 

 abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing with the basal area red 

 suffused with purplish grey, leaving a yellow patch on base of costa 

 and bounded by the indistinct oblique waved yellow antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and rcnitbrni snaall. defined by rufous, the former round, 

 the latter narrow and constricted at middle ; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, yellow, minutely dentate, angled inwards at discal fold and 

 strongly incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it red suffused with 



Fig. 1G9. — Coiiiiiia aurago, (^ . ]. 



puri>lish grey ; the subterminal line yellow, slightly waved, excurved 

 below vein 7, angled inwards at discyl fold, excurved at middle, 

 then incurved, some ditlused yellow beyond it at apex ; a sliHit 

 yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale yellow with 

 diffused red subteiminal band forming streaks on the veins and 

 maculate terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with red, a slight discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area mottled with red. 



Ah. 2. fucata. Much more uniform in colour; fore wing with 

 the medial area suffused with red, the basal and terminal areas 

 redder. 



