292 NOCTTJlDiE. 



inner line indistinct, angled outwards below costa and in snbmedinn 

 ibid and incurved at vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform grey-white 

 defined by black-brown, their centres defined by brown, the former 

 narrow and very oblique elliptical, the latter w r ith more or less 

 diffused black streak before it; medial line indistinct, diffused, 

 sinuous, from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial lino 

 double filled in with grey-white, indistinct except the inner line 

 from vein 2 to inner margin, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 and minutely waved to vein 4, then incurved and angled outwards 

 at vein 1 ; subterminal line indistinct, grey, waved, with slight 

 black streaks before it above and below vein 7 ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line ; cilia with a slight dark line through them. Hind 

 w 7 ing whitish tinged with red-brown especially on terminal area 

 from costa to vein 2 ; a fine dark terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; 

 the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown. 



$ . Head, thorax, and fore wang nearly uniform fuscous brown, 

 the last with the markings indistinct. 



Ab. 1. phUopalis. Smaller and paler; fore wing with the mark- 

 ings more prominent. — S.E. France. 



Ab. 2. andalnsiea. Small ; fore wing with the markings indis- 

 tinct. — Andalusia. 



Ab. 3. syriaca. Wings broader ; hind wing darker. — Syria. 



Hub. Bkitain, England {Barrett), Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry 

 (Salvage); Fkance, Frey Coll.; Germany, Zeller & Leech Colls.; 

 Spain, Andalusia; Sicily ; Syria. Eccp. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 125 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 277, pi. 220. f. 2. 



Green or pale brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white or 

 yellowish, dark-edged ; head brow r n or greenish freckled with dark 

 brown. Food- plant : Grasses. 9-3. 



Genus PMSTILBIA. 



Type. 



Prtsstilbia, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 288 (1891) armeniaca. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrpct, hardly extending beyond the frons 

 winch is smooth ; eyes large, round ; antennas of male serrate; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with spreading 

 crest; build slender; tibia; smoothly scaled ; abdomen without crests. Fore 

 wing with the apei rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and ft from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 shortly stalked ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; t), 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near middle. 



3905. Praestilbia armeniaca. 



Prtsstilbia armeniaca. Stand. Iris, iv. p. 288, pi. 3. f. 10 (1891); id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 194. 



c? . Head and thorax whitish tinged with red-brown ; tarsi 

 brown tinged with whitish; abdomen whitish. Fore wing whitish 

 tinged with pale red-brown ; subbasal line represented by a small 

 black spot below costa with a black point beyond it in cell ; ante- 



