588 noctuid.t:. 



defined on inner side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa 

 and evenly excurved below subcostal nervure ; orbicular, reuiforni, 

 and a spot below outer edge of former large, defined l)y black and 

 with some raised scales on tlieir edges ; postmedial line reddish 

 brown and indistinct to vein 5, then black defined on outer side by 

 red-brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then incurved, 

 excurved above inner margin, some grey points beyond it on costa 

 and a whitish line on inner area ; subterminal line represented by a 

 series of black points on the veins Avith slight whitish streaks 

 before them and three black streaks below costa, and by a blackish 

 bar defined on inner side by white towards tornus ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing with 

 the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the temiinal half 

 brown ; cilia Avhite with slight brown spots near base ; the under- 

 side Avith the basal half whiter, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight brown discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Clarissa. Much paler and greyer. — Asia Minor, Syria. 



Hah. Britaix, Leech Coll. ; Fraxce ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; HrxGARY ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Algeria ; Gtreece ; Balkan States ; 

 ScANDiNATiA; KussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus. Taurus, Antioch, Bythinia ; Syria, Mardin ; 

 W. Siberia ; E. Siberia, Amm-land, Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate, 

 1 6 , Tokio {Maries), 1 c? , 1 $ , Oiwake {Fryer), 1 $ . Yokohama 

 {Fryer), 1 d ; W. China, Chia-kou-ho {Fraff), 2 d , Pu-tsu-fong, 

 1 d ,1 2 , Moupin {Kriclieldorf), 1 6 . Edy. 3-1-40 niillim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 16J; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 1-iU, pi. 244. 

 f. 2; IIff:u. Euiip.pl. 34. f. 18. 



Olive-green or purplish brown ; dorsal line pale, interrupted by 

 pale-edged dark blotches on somites 4, 5 and 11 ; lateral series of 

 pale oblique sti-eaks ; spu-acular line ochreous white ; 11th somite 

 Avith pair of dorsal prominences ; head j^ale greyish ochreous 

 freckled Avith brown ; the 1st two pairs of prolegs smaller. Food- 

 plants: Urtica, Hu mill us, La/nium. etc. 7-9. 



8439. Abrostola anophioides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 28.) 



Ahrostola anophioides, Moore, Lep. Alk. p. ] 48 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. ii. p. 577. 



S • Head and thorax broAvn mixed Avith purplish grey ; pectus 

 ochreous behind ; abdomen broAvn mixed Avith grey, the lateral 

 fringes of hair and anal tuft ochreous. Fore AAdng fuscous broAvn 

 tinged Avith pur])lish grey, the basal area Avith an ochreovis tinge ; 

 subbasal line slight, dark, AA'aved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemcdial line black defined on inner side by red-broAvn, excurved 

 beloAV costa, then sinuous ; orbicular, reniform, and a rounded spot 

 beloAV the outer edge of former large, defined by black and Avith 

 I'aised scales on their edges ; postmedial line indistinct and reddi.sh 

 broAvn to vein 3, then black defined on outer side by red-brown, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then oblique and sinuous to 



