536 



NOCTUID.E. 



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series of blackish points ; cilia brown mixed with whitish, a dark 

 line at middle, the tips chequered with white. Hind wing white 

 suffused with cupreous brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule, traces 

 of curved postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side and a 

 dark terminal line ; cilia white with a brown line near base, a 

 series of brown spots at tips from apex to vein 2, and some brown 

 scales at vein 1 ; tbe underside white slightly irrorated with brown, 

 a blackish discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, subterminal 

 band from costa to termen at vein 1 expanding into patches at 

 eosta and discal fold, and terminal line. 



Hah. Prance, Sand and Leech Colls. ; Germany, Zeller and Frey 

 Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzekland, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Italy; Russia, Urals; W. Siberia, , 

 Altai ; E. Siberia, Amur ; N. China. Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 285; Hffm. Eaup. p. 143, pi 36 

 f. 14. 



Green, paler above with a dark dorsal line, a white subdorsal line, 

 and yellowish lateral line. Food-plants : Grasses. 



5802. Lithacodia nemorum. 



Erastria nemorum, Oberth. Et. Ent. v. p. 82, pi. iv. f. 2 (1880) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 231. 

 Erastria africana, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 525 (nee Feld.). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some grey ; pectus and 

 legs greyer, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey suf- 

 fused with fuscous brown, the crests blackish. Fore wing reddish 

 brown irrorated with black and suffused with purplish grey ; sub- 

 basal line represented by slight black striae from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line black, dentate, erect ; claviform small, defined by 

 black and with slight white annulus ; orbicular and reniform small 

 with greyish centres and white annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter strongly constricted at middle, its outer edge 

 incompletely defined ; postmedial line blackish, oblique from costa 

 to vein 6, then minutely dentate, strongly incurved below vein 4 ; 

 postmedial area white extending to inner side of postmedial line 

 beyond the cell, some blackish points on costa; subterminal line 

 Avhite, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, angled inwards at discal 

 and submedian folds ; a terminal series of black stria? ; cilia blackish 

 mixed with some white. Hind wing greyish suffused with cupreous 

 brown ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia whitish with a brown 

 line near base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, the 

 costal and apical areas suffused with red-brown, a black discoidal 

 etriga, and indistinct postmedial line strongly excurved at middle. 



Hub. E. Siberia, Amurland, Fssuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pri/er), 

 2 S , 1 $ , Yokohama (Pryer), 2 S ; Cobea, Gensan (Leech), 2 J , 

 1 $ . Exp. 24-26 millim. 



