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NOCTUIDJE. 



5859. Eustrotia uncula. 



PhaJtena uncula, Clerck, Icones, pi. 3. f. 7 (1759) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 230. 

 lortrix uncana, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 342 (1761); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 117. 

 Tortrix uvea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 91 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 164. 



f. 7 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 293 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. yii. pt. i. 



p. 379, pi. 123. f . 4 ; Fit. Neue Beitr. pi. 598. 



Head and thorax rufous ; tarsi brown ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Fore wing whitish suffused 

 Avith pale rufous, a triangular patch on disk between ante- and 

 postmedial lines deep rufous; antemedial line obsolete on costal 

 area, then rufous slightly defined by whitish on inner side, angled ( 

 inwards above vein 1 and bent outwards above inner margin ; the 



Fig. 161. — Eustrotia uncula, <$ . \. 



orbicular represented by a white sinus on upper edge of the deep 

 rufous area, the reniform by a very oblique hook with white 

 annulus from the pale costal area ; postmedial line dark defined by 

 white on outer side and bounding the deep rufous area, running 

 from below apex, where it is met by an oblique black shade from 

 apex, obliquely with a slight outward curve to inner margin ; sub- 

 terminal line white slightly defined on each side by brown, oblique 

 and almost straight from the apical shade to inner margin ; a dark 

 brown terminal line ; cilia pale rufous with two fine brown lines 

 through them. Hind wing pale reddish brown with a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia brownish white with a slight brown line 

 through them ; the underside greyish irrorated with brown, the 

 costal area tinged with rufous, a faint discoidal spot and indistinct 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; Switzerland. 

 Frey Coll.; X. Italy; Btjmelia ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.: 

 W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 J, Ussuri ; Jatan. 

 Hakodate {Leech), 2 $ , Oiwake (Pryer), 1 tf . Exp. 22-26 millim! 



Larva. Meyr. Brit, Lep. p. 166; Barrett, Lep. Brit, vi. p. 187, pi. 247. f.2. 



Sleuder. the 1st pair of prolegs absent, the 2nd pair rudimentary: 

 green ; dorsal line darker ; subdorsal line whitish ; spiracular line 

 pale Yellow ; head yellowish green. Food-plant: Carex sylvatica 

 7-8. 





