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3936. Athetis contusa. 



Noctua contusa, Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 534. f . 2 & pi. 550 (1849) ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schniett., Noct. fF. 517, 518; Guen. Noct. ii. p. 5, pi. 7. 

 f. 4 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 204. 



Head and thorax pale red-brown mixed with gi-ey ; pectus paler ; 

 abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing pale red-brown 

 tinged with grey and with slight dark irroration, the terminal area 

 rather darker ; subbasal line represented by a slight dark striga 

 from costa ; antemedial line dark, excurved below costa and above 

 inner margin and incurved in submedian interspace ; orbicular a 

 pale point faintly defined by brown ; reniform dark with faint pale 

 annulus, narrow above, constricted at middle and triangular below; 

 a diffused dark medial shade, oblique from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line brown defined by 

 greyish on outer side, oblique from costa to vein 4, then inwardly 

 oblique ; subterminal line pale defined on inner side by brown, 

 slightly excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards 

 at discal and submedian folds. Hind wing greyish suffused with 

 brown, the cilia pale at tips ; the underside whitish tinged and 

 slightly irrorated with brown, a narrow discoidal lunule and diiFused 

 curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Germany, Zeller & D'Emmick Colls. ; E. Siberia, Dahuria, 

 Ussuri. Exp. 32-38 miliim. 



Larva. Kirbv, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 186; H£fm. Raup. p. 115, pi. 31, 

 f. 10. 



Pale green, whitish above ; dorsal line pale, dull ; lateral stripe 

 white ; warts white. Eood-plant : Popidus tremulus, between 

 united leaves. 5. 



3937. Athetis placata. (Plate CXXIX. fig. 24.) 



Orthopia 'placata, Leecli, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 79. 



(5 . Head and thorax brown largely mixed with grey; palpi 

 black-brown at sides, grey in front ; tarsi ringed with white ; anal 

 tuft tinged with rufous. Fore w'ing grey irrorated with brown 

 and blackish, especially on costal and terminal areas ; subbasal line 

 represented by faiiit double dark strite from costa ; antemedial line 

 very indistinct, oblique, double at costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 large with brownish centres and whitish annuli, the former round ; 

 a faint oblique dark medial shade ; postmedial line represented by 

 a double series of black points, bent outwards below costa and 

 incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line white defined by red-brown on inner side, oblique, 

 very slightly curved ; a terminal series of small black lunules 

 defined by a waved whitish line ; cilia with two slight whitish lines 

 at middle and white tips. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal 

 area rather darker ; a fine brown terminal line; cilia Avith fine 

 ochreous line at base and white tips ; the underside grey-Avhite 



