358 NOCTUIDJS. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish ; palpi blackish, 

 greyish at tips; antennae ringed with whitish at base ; abdomen 

 ochreous suffused with brown, whitish at base. Fore wing greyish 

 ochreous thickly suffused and irrorated with dark brown, the post- 

 medial area rather darker ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 dark striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, double, oblique, 

 waved, with small black spot on the outer line at costa ; orbicular and 

 renif'orm indistinct, brown, tbe former ii regular, the latter con- 

 stricted at middle and with slight yellowish mark on its outer edge 

 at middle; an indistinct diffused sinuous line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, double, the lines 

 widely separated, the inner line minutely dentate, the outer even, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, greyish, defined on inner side by dark brown, angled 

 outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, then incurved ; a terminal 

 series of black points ; cilia with a dark brown line near base. 

 Hind wing white, the veins of terminal area irrorated with brown : 

 a slight discoidal spot, traces of a diffused subterminal line and 

 Terminal series of dark striae ; cilia with a slight brownish line 

 through them from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal 

 area suffused with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and curved 

 subterminal line from costa to vein 4. 



Hub. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls.; Austria; Hungary; Swrizi eland : Italy, Savoy 

 {Hampson); ? Sicily ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Urals : Armenia ; 

 E. Turkestan, Hi; E. Siberia, Annuland, Ussuri, Corea. E<cp. 

 30-134 inillirn. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 122 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 282. pi. 220. f. 3. 



lirown or grey-brown ; dorsal line paler with interrupted daik 

 edsjes; subdorsal series of blackish sagittate marks ; spiracular line 

 obscurely darker ; head brown with dark ficckles. Food-plants: 

 Sedum, Sali.r, Itubus, &c. 9-10. 



4004. Athetis aeschria, n. sp. (Plate CXXX. fig. 31.) 



c? . Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint black at sides ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing reddish 

 brown thickly irrorated with black; subbasal line black, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line black, slightly 

 oblique and very minutely dentate ; orbicular and renif'orm fuscous, 

 undefined, the former round, the latter elliptical ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, blackish, slightly defined on outer side by ochreous, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, oblique below vein 4, 

 with small black spot at costa; faint traces of a dark subterminal 

 line excurved at middle; a terminal series of slight dark points. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown, 

 the apex suffused with brown ; the veins, a slight discoidal lunule 



