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palpi, pectus, and legs reddish brown, the tarsi black ringed with 

 "white ; abdomen reddish brown with some whitish hair at base, 

 the crests black-brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown, a j)atch of 

 white suffusion on inner area before the antemedial line and the 

 inner half of terminal area suffused with white ; subbasal line 

 blackish, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double, the inner line brown, the outer black, evenly 

 excurved ; orbicular, reniform, and a spot below the former large, 

 defined by black Anth some raised scales on their edsres. the 

 orbicular and spot below it open above and below, the latter 

 oblique quacbate ; postmedial line double, the inner line black, 

 slight to vein 3, then strong, the outer brown, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to discal fold, incm'ved below vein 5 

 and excm-ved on inner area, some greyish points with dark sti-eaks 

 between them beyond it on costa and a white line on inner area ; 

 subterminal line white slightly defined on each side by brown, 

 Avith double dentate black mark before it below costa and some 

 black beyond it at apex, minutely waved ; a waved black terminal 

 line. Hind wing -with the basal half whitish suffused with red- 

 brown, the terminal half red-brown; cilia white Avith some red- 

 broASTi at base ; the underside Avhite irrorated Avith brown, the 

 terminal area broAvn, a small broAA'n discoidal lunule. 



Hab. Beitaix, Leech Coll. ; Fea>'CE ; Geeaiaxy, Zeller. Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; ArsTEiA ; Huxgaet ; Switzeelaxd ; Spaix, 

 Castile, Bilbao; N. Italy, Qom-m.-A\ewx {Ha mpson); Armenia; 

 Asia Mixoe, Pontus ; W. Tuekestax. Tarbagatai ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai ; E. Siberia, Amm-land. Exp. 34-8S millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. IGO; Earrett, Lep. Biit. \\. p. 137, pi 244. 

 f. 1 ; Hffm. Enup. p. 132, pi. 35. f. 1. 



Pale green mixed with Avhitish on dorsum ; dorsal series of darker 

 elliptical marks ; subdorsal series of oblique darker streaks ; lateral 

 line Avhite connected on -Ith to 6th somites by Avliite lines A\-ith the 

 dorsal area ; 11th somite Avith two dorsal prominences ; 1st two 

 pairs of prolegs smaller. Food-plants : TJrtica, JEjpilohium, etc. 

 8-9. 



8437. Abrostola asclepiadis. 



Noctua asclepiadis, SdiifT, Wien. Verz. p. 91 (177fi) ; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., 



Noct. f. 627; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 2S(i; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 

 Abrostola jagowi, Bartel, Iris, xyii. p. 160 (1904). 



Head and thorax dark reddish broAvn mixed Avith Avhitish ; black 

 bars on fi'ons and between antennae ; teguhe edged with black in 

 front and at middle ; prothorax A^th pair of small blackish spots ; 

 palpi, pectus in front, and legs dark broA\ni, the tarsi ringed AA-ith 

 Avhite ; abdomen broAvn mixed A^th Avhitish. the crests blackish. 

 Fore Aving broAvn glossed with grey, the basal area ochreous tinged 

 Avith pink and Avhite with slight dark subbasal marks ; antemedial 

 line double, the outer line black, the inner red-brown, sliglitly 

 excurved below costa and evenly excurved below subcostal nervurc ; 



