660 



NOCTUID.E. 



6000. Erastria trabealis. 



Phalcena. trabealis, Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 240 (1763) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 233. 

 Pyralis sulphiiralis , Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 881 (1767); Steph. 111. 



Brit. Eut., Haust. iii. p. 117 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 315. 

 Noctua arabica, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 412 (1767). 

 Noctua. sulphurea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 93 (1776); Esp. Scbmett. iv. 



pi. 164. f. 6 (1789) ; Iliibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 291 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii. pt. i. p. 376, pi. 123. f. 3. 

 Noctua trabeata, Scriba, Beitr. p. 153, pi. 10. f. 8 (1790). 

 Bombyx lugubris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. l..p 467 (1793). 

 Erastria pardalina, Wlk. xxxiii. 794 (1865). 

 Agrophila nigra, Erscb. Fedtsch. Keis. p. 52, pi. 3. f. 50 (1874). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi yellow except at tips ; 

 frons yellowish white ; tegulas yellowish white at base, the patagia 

 and dorsum of thorax with yellow fasciae ; pectus and legs yellowish 

 white mixed with brown, the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen 

 yellowish white dorsally suffused with brown leaving slight pale 

 segmental lines. Fore wing pale yellow ; dark red-brown fasciae 

 along median nervure and vein 1 to postmedial line ; antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial oblique wedge-shaped brown spots on costa 

 and small elliptical spots at middle and end of cell ; postmedial line 





Fig. 186. —Erastria trabealis, <5 . 



with small spot at costa, below vein 6 forming an irregular sinuous 

 band, oblique to submedian fold, then bent outwards to inner 

 margin ; an oblique subterminal spot from apex, a small spot at 

 middle and geminate spot in submedian interspace ; cilia dark brown 

 at apex, middle, and towards tornus. Hind wing cupreous red- 

 brown ; cilia white with a brown line near base ; the underside 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, narrow 

 postmedial band, excurved to vein 2, then obsolescent, and a narrow 

 irregular terminal band from below tipex to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. nigra. Fore wing almost entirely or wholly fuscous black. — 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana. 



Huh. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Leech Coll. (Eaton) ; Den- 

 mark ; Germany, Zcller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland ; Spain ; Italy, Courmayeur (Hampson), Capri (C. S. 

 Browne) ; Sicily, Zeller Coil. ; Dalmatia ; Greece, Merlin Coll. ; 

 Cyprus (Glazner); S. Sweden; Russia, Livonia; Armenia; Asia 

 Minor ; Syria, Leeeh Coll., Beyrout (Jessop) ; Mesopotamia ; Persia ; 



