64 NOCTUID^. 



tips, pectus, and legs rufous ; abdomen gvey iiTorated with brown, 

 tlie anal tuft 3'ellow. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red- 

 brown ; a triangular chocolate-brown patch, edged with black and 

 defined by white, from subcostal nervure before middle to above 

 inner margin where its lower edge is excised ; renifomi pale red- 

 brown defined on outer side by white, oblicpie elliptical, followed by 

 a triangular deep chocolate-brown patch extending to the post- 

 medial line ; a slight incurved oblique line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin followed by some pale red-brown, then deep choco- 

 late-brown before the i^ostmedial line, which is white defined on 

 inner side by black except at costa and vein 6, obliquely curved 

 from vein 6 to beyond lower angle of cell A\here it is strongly 

 incurved, then strongly excurved, a reddish-brown band beyond it 

 incurved and obsolescent below vein ; the termen sviffused with 

 red-brown except towards apex and tornus ; cilia reddish brown. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area iiTOi-ated with brown ; a 

 brown subterminal band, excurved at discal fold and ending on 

 termen at vein 1 ; the tennen suffused wath red-brown from apex 

 to submedian fold; cilia pale red-brown. Underside golden yellow; 

 fore wing with tlie costa and apical area irrorated with brown, 

 brown subterminal bars from costa and inner margin ; hind wing 

 irrorated with red-brown, traces of a cm-ved postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 2, the terminal shade faint. 



Ab. 1. ail rant iaca. Hind wing orange-red. — Pontus. 



Ab. 2. fumata. Both wings thickly iiTorated with fuscous ob- 

 scuring the markings. 



Hah. Austria, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; HuxciAin', Frey and 

 Leech Colls.; Balkan States; S. IIussia; Akmema; Asia 

 Mi>'OR, Pontus; W. Ti'RKESTAX, Chwalynsk (C/ir/sfopJi), I <5 , 

 Ala Tau; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siueria'. Kvp. 28 32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Mutlia Eur. p. 278 ; Hfl'm. Eaup. p. U5, pi. ;i(). f. 22. 



Pale rusty yellow dotted with brownish, each somite with four 

 black warts, two j)airs of ventral ])rolegs. Food-])lant : Asfrrif/riJi/s 

 vHobrijcliis. 



7825. Gonospileia munita. 



Noctiia viuniia, Hubu. Eur. Schniett., Noet. f. 593 (1818); Staud. Cut. 



Lep. pal. p. 241. 

 Eiu-lidia anynlosa, Ev. Nouv. M^in. Mosc. ii. p. 353, pi. 19. f. 7 (1832). 

 Eudidia immunita, Mill. Icones, ii. p. 406, pi. 92. f. 11 (1867). 



Head and thorax ])ale rufous ; antenna' with the shaft wliite 

 above towards base; alKlomen fulvous yellow. Fore wing ])ale 

 rufous witli slight dark irroration ; a triangular chocolate-lirown 

 patch defined by white from just below costa before middle to 

 above middle of inner margin, its lower outer angle produced to a 

 point ; the outer ])art of medial aiva bright rufous except towards 

 costa, deejK'r towards the jjostmedial line wliere it is ])roduced to an 

 acute angle beyond the cell ; postmedial line black defined on outer 

 side by white, faintly towards costa, obliquely incm*ved below 



