ABBOSTOLA.. o87 



orbicular, renifomi. and a spot below outer edge of former large, 

 defined by black with some raised scales on their edges and slight 

 greyish centres ; postmedial line double, the inner line brown to 

 vein 5, then black, the outer red-brown, bent outwards below costa, 

 then slightly sinuous to vein 5, then incurved and excurved above 

 inner margin, some greyish points beyond it on costa and a whitish 

 line on inner area ; subterminal line whitish with two slight black 

 streaks before it below costa and slight black streaks beyond it on 

 the veins, minutely dentate ; a black terminal line ; cilia pale 

 reddish brown chequered with blackish at tips. Hind wing with 

 the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half 

 brown ; cilia white tinged with red-brown ; the underside with the 

 basal area whiter, the costal area tinged with red-brown, a small 

 brown discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. jagovi. Fore -w-ing with the basal area not tinged with 

 pink and without dark marks. — Engadine. 



Hah. Feaxce, Sand Coll. ; Dexmaek, Gotland ; Gebmaxy, 

 Zeller, Frev, and Leech Colls. ; Austeia; Hu^s'Gaet; Switzerland. 

 Zeller Coll., Engadine ; N. Italy ; Dalmatia ; S.W. RrssLV ; 

 E. SiBEEiA, Ussm-i ; Japax. Exjj. 36^0 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 267; Hffrn. Eaup. p. 132, pi. M. 

 f. 11). 



Bluish white with numerous black dots and a 3'ellow lateral 

 stripe; 1st two pairs of prolegs smaller. Food-plant, Cynanchum 

 vihcetoocicum. 5-6. 



8438. Abrostola triplasia. 



Noclua friplasia, Linn. Syst. ^"at. ed. x. p. 517 (1758) ; Esj). Si^limett. iv. 



pi. 169. ff 1-3 ; Iliibn. Eur. Schmett., Tsoct. f. 026 ; Pup. Lcp. Fr. vii. 1. 



p. 486, pi. 132. f. 1 ; Fir. Neue Beitr. pi. 28.^; Led. ^A'ien. Ent. Mon. 



V. pi. 2. f. 2 (1861); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 

 Plusia Clarissa, Stand. Iris, sii. p. 381 (1899). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with ochreous white ; 

 black bars on frons and between antenme ; tegulje edged with 

 black ; prothorax with paii- of small black spots ; palpi, pectus, and 



Fig. 128. — Abrostola triplasia, (S . \. 



legs dark brown ; abdomen dark brown with some ochreous white 

 at base, the crests blackish. Fore wing brown with a greyish 

 gloss, the basal area pale reddish brown ; antcmedial line black 



