ATHETTS. 321 



costal area tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 point and traces of subterminal line from costa to discal fold. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls.; AirsTRiA, Zeller Coll. ; Hun&aky, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Prey Coll. ; ? Spain, Catalonia ; Scandinavia (Schot/en) ; Finland, 

 Leech Coll.; Eussia, Urals; Armenia; ? Asia Minor, Bithynia; 

 hah. ign., 1 (S type f/uttilinea. j51i^:). 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 123 ; Barrett, Brit. Lep. v. p. 290, pi. 221. f. 3. 



Pale ochraceous or brownish, slightly freckled with blackish ; 

 dorsal line pale yellowish, traversing a series of small blackish 

 marks ; subdorsal line pale, defined below by a strong dark brown 

 line ; spiracular line brownish ; head ochreous marked with brown. 

 Food-plants : Stellaria, Rumex, Grasses, &c. 9-4. 



3942. Athetis ambigua. 



NoctiM amhigua, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 77 (1876) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 148 (1787) ; Stand. Oat. Lep, pal. p. 197. 

 Noctua plantaginis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. .576 (1802) ; Diip. Lep. 



Fr. vi. p. 59, pi. 76. f. 2; Herr.-Schaigp. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 381. 

 Orthosia uniformis, Swiiih. Trans. Eiit. Soc. 1885, p. 350, pi. 9. f. 6 ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 261. 

 Caradri7ia hilaris, Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 197 (1901). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale rufous; palpi with 

 the 1st and 2nd joints blackish at sides; abdomen whitish tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the costal edge white ; subbasal line 

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

 blackish, oblique, waved, excurved below submedian fold and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform large, reddish 

 brown defined by white, the former round, the latter elliptical ; 

 faint traces of a diffused sinuous line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; postmedial line blackish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 4, a faint whitish line beyond it ; subterminal 

 line whitish excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 

 scries of black points; cilia with a fine whitish line at middh , 

 Hind wing white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot, traces of a postmedial line with 

 minute black streaks on the veins and terminal series of points 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. uniformis. Paler; palpi slightly tinged with fuscous at 

 sides; fore wing with an ochreous tinge. — Syria, W. Turkestan, 

 Beluchistan. 



Hob. Britain ; France, Sand and Leech Colls. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; Italy, Capri (C. /S'. Broivne) ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Algeria; Eussia, Livonia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Lydia ; Syria ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Syr Daria, 1 cJ , 1 $ , 



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