94 NOCTUIDiE. 



Amathes c-nigrum, Linn. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 4 (larva).) 

 Noctua c-nigrum, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1193. 



Larva : dorsal area pink ; a broad deep black dorso-lateral stripe, follo\ved by a pale 

 yellow lateral stripe of the same width ; a sublateral chaiu of black spots ; a narrow browiiisli- 

 red stripe immediately below the spiracles; ventral area minutely speckled with black; head 

 and legs pink. 



Feeds on Menispermum, Viola, and other plants. 



The coloration is totally different from the European form as figured by Freyer, vii. 

 pi. 608j but the images are identical. 



Amathes ruptistriga, JVlk. (Plate CLXI. fig. 12.) 

 Hadena ruptistriga, It7/i-. Cat. xxxiii. p. 739. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Female. Pale brown ; head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated with black scales ; some 

 dark strigas fi-om the costa ; the cell filled in -with black, interrupted by the pale orbicular 

 stigma ; traces of postmedial and submarginal lines. 



Aucha velans, lllk. (Plate CLXII. fig. 15.) 

 Aucha velans, Wlk. Cat. xiii. p. 1138. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Head and thorax dark fuscous brown ; abdomen paler brown. Fore wing dark fuscous 

 brown ; an indistinct dark spot at end of cell ; faint traces of double postmedial and sub- 

 marginal lines. Ilind wing fuscous brown, with a yellow-brown fascia below the end of the 

 cell and round its lower angle; a series of marginal and cilial yellow-brown marks. 



APAMIIN.^. 



Dipterygia cristifera. (Plate CLXII. fig. 7.) 



Expanse \-\ iiu'h. 



Male. Allied to D. nodurna, Ilmpsn. ; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform in- 

 distinctly outlined with olive-yellow; the postmedial line more distinct on the disk and evenly 

 waved ; some indistinct olive-yellow on the eosta before the apex and on the submarginal 

 series of streaks ; tlie inner margin and patch at outer angle pale brown, not whitish ; tlie 

 black line inside the latter straight and erect, not lunulatc. Tiic crest on the thorax very 

 conspicuous; tiic inulersidc of the thorax, abdomen, and legs pinkish. 



