540 noctuid.2e. 



a small dark diseoidal spot and indistinct curved minutely waved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. guenei. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal 

 areas not white. 



Bab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech Coll. ; Gexmany, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Frey 

 Coll. ; Spain, Catalonia, Bilbao ; Portugal ; Corsica ; Italy ; 

 Denmark; Prussia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Bithynia; Persia, 1 tf , 

 1 $ ; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Nagasaki 

 (Leech), 1 tf , Oiwake (Pryer), 1 c? , Nikko (Maries, Jonas), 2 J, 

 1 § ; Corea. Exp. 24-30 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 164; Barrett, Lep. Brit. ri. p. 202, pi. 248. f. 2. 



Pale yellowish ; dorsal line reddish or greenish ; subbasal line 

 brown ; lateral line reddish or greenish ; spiracular line reddish ; 

 head pale yellow irrorated with red. Food-plant : Molinia casrulea. 

 8-9. 



5808. Lithacodia stygia. 



Erastria stygia, Butl. A. M. N.H. (5) i. p. 199 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 

 iii. p. 20, pi. 46. f. 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep, pal. p. 231. 



Head and thorax black mixed with some brown and white; 

 tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen fuscous and white, the 

 crests blackish. Fore wing black-brown with some red and white 

 scales mixed, the postmedial area below vein 3 and the terminal 

 area below vein 5 with more white ; subbasal line blackish 

 slightly defined by white on inner side, waved, from costa to sub- 

 median fold ; antemedial line indistinct, slightly defined by white 

 on inner side, oblique, waved ; claviform faintly defined by black 

 and white at extremity ; orbicular and reniform small, with white 

 annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter constricted 

 at middle ; an indistinct curved medial line ; postmedial line 

 defined by white on outer side, strongly at costa and below 

 vein 4, bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below 

 vein 4 and excurved at vein 1, some white points beyond it on 

 costa : subterminal line whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules, defined on inner 

 side by white except at apex ; cilia with a dark line at middle, 

 chequered fuscous and white at tips. Hind wing fuscous brown ; 

 cilia whitish with a dark line at middle and chequered with fuscous 

 at tips ; the underside white irrorated with fuscous, the costal 

 and terminal areas tinged with purplish red, a small diseoidal spot, 

 postmedial series of minute streaks on the veins, and terminal 

 series of strise. 



Hob. Japan, Kiushiu, 1 3 , Tokio (Maries), 2 tf , 1 $ , Yokohama 

 (Jonas, Pryer), 4^,4 $ type; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 1 S , 2 $ ; 

 C. China, Ichang (Hobson), 1 $ ; "W. China, Chow-pin-sa, 1 <$ , 

 1 $ . Exp. 24-32 millim. 



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