PETILAMPA. 415 



Acosmetia morrisU, Morris, Natural, ii. p. 88 (1837) ; HuujjDbrey & West- 

 wood, Brit. Moths, i. p. 245, pi. 54. f. 12. 



^ . Head and thorax rufous, mixed with whitish ; paljDi fuscous, 

 pale at tips ; antennae fuscous ; legs fuscous, the tarsi ringed with 

 whitish ; abdomen pale rufous dorsally tinged with brown. Eore 

 wing whitish suffused with pale rulous, the postmedial area except 

 towards costa and the terminal area rather whiter ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, dark, waved, angled inwards to black points on the 

 veins ; a slight dark point at lower angle of cell ; postmedial line 

 very indistinct, dark, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 dentate and produced to dark points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 



Fig. 109. — Fetilampa minima, (^. {-. 



then incurved; a faint dark subterminal line, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and incurved at submedian fold; a terminal 

 series of dark striae ; cilia with a dark line at middle. Hind wing 

 whitish, suffused with pale red-brown ; cilia white, yellowish at 

 base and with brown line at middle ; the underside with the costal 

 area tinged with rufous, a slight dark discoidal point, indistinct 

 curved postmedial line, and terminal series of striae. 



2 . Pore wing with the medial area slightly suUused with brown. 



Ab. 1. morrisi. Whiter. — Britain. 



Ab. 2. lutescens. Fore wing of male more suffused with rufous, 

 of female variegated with rufous. 



Hah. Britain, type lutescens. Leech. Coll. ; Prance ; Denmark, 

 Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Prey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; 

 Switzerland. Exp. S 22-34, 5 20-24 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 121 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 270, pi. 219. f. 4. 



Whitish ochreous, sometimes tinged with pink, with transverse 

 darker or brownish bars ; dorsal and subdorsal lines paler ; head 

 brown ; thoracic plate pale brown. Pood-plant : the base of stems 

 of Aira ccespitosa. 4-5. 



4096. Petilampa palustris. 



Noctua palustris, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett.,Noet. f. 867 (1808) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 578, pi. 48. ff. 4 a, 6; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 683 ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 292 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 198. 



Caradrina lutea, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 121 (1845). 



Caradrina luteola, Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 455. f. 3 (1845). 



Caradrina exilis, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, p. 548. 



Hydrilla aboleta, Guen. Noet. i. p. 238 (1852). 



Hydrilla melanochroa, Staud. Roiu. Mem. Ti. p. 488 (1892). 



(S . Head and thorax brownish ochreous tinged with grey ; 



