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Larva. Kh-hy, Butt,. & Moths Eur. p. 26.3; Hffin. Raup. p. ];]9. 

 lieddiali grey, with dorsal series of reddish- brown triangular 

 spots. Food-plant, Melissa. 6. 



4355. Pyrrhia victorina. 



Heliothis victorina,, Sodofsk^', Stett. ent. Zeit. 1849, p. 130; Herr.-Schiiff. 



iiui". Scbmett., Noct. f. 552; Frr. Neue Sc4ioiett. pi. 570. f. 2; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. paK p. 223. 

 Charidea prasanojfskyi, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 1G9 (1852). 



Head pale j-ellow suffused witli crimson ; antennae pink with a 

 crimson bar between their bases ; thorax pale yellow with purplish- 

 ])iuk bands on and behind tegulse, a slight oblique streak on patagia 

 and the metathorax edged with purplish ; pectus pale yellow, the 

 legs pink and the tarsi brownish ; abdomen pale yellow suffused 

 with brown. Fore wing pale yellow, the veins streaked with 

 crimson ; a very faint curved pink antemedial line from cell to 

 inner margin ; a diffused pink medial line oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, incurved to submedian fold and excurved to 

 inner margin; postmedial line deep pink, rather diffused, oblique, 

 arising from costa towards apex ; subterminal line ])iuk, arising at 

 vein 7, excurved to vein 2, then slightly incurved ; a fine brown 

 terminal line, ])ink towards tornus. Hind wing yellowish white 

 irrorated with biown, the veins brown, the termen tinged with 

 pink ; a diffused brown subterminal band with somewhat dentate 

 outer edge ; a pink terminal line ; cilia yellowish white, the under- 

 side yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas faintly tinged 

 with i)ink. 



Hah. Servia ; Bulgaria {Mrs. Nicholl) ; Tcjekey, Leech Coll. ; 

 S. Russia, Zeller Coll. ; Akme^tia, Caucasus, Leech Coll. ; Asia. 

 Minor, Amasia, Zeller and Frey Colls. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirhy, Butt. & Motli.s Eur. p. 2 )3 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 139. 



Green or reddish violet with darker dorsal and lateral lines and 

 small black warts. Food-plants : Salvia and Dictamnus. 5-6. 



4356. Pyrrhia purpiirina. 



Noctua marginata, Don. Brit. Ins. v. pi. 150. f. 1 (1796), uec Fabr. 

 Noctua 2}U'>Tii'>'i'iO; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 195. f. 2 (1798). 

 Noctua rutilago, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 519 (1818), nee Scbiff. 

 Heliothis purpurites, Treit. Scbmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 234(1826); Geyer, Eur. 



Scbmett., Noct. ft'. 759-763 (1833) ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 136 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 224. 

 Pyrrhia purpurago, Hiibn. Verz. p. 233 (1827). 



Head and thorax olivc-ochreous suffused with purplish pink ; 

 abdomen olive-ochreous, the crests, anal tuft and vent;ral surface 

 tinged with pink. Fore wing olive-ochreous irrorated with crimson, 

 the terminal half suffused with crimson except the postmedial area 

 towards costa and in submedian interspace, the veins streaked with 

 crimson ; subbasal line crimson, straight, from costa to submedian 



