586 NOCTUiDj:. 



palpi, pectus, and legs reddish brown, the tarsi black ringed with 

 white ; abdomen reddish brown with some whitish hair at base, 

 the crests black-brown. Fore wing dark reddish brown, a patch of 

 white suffusion on inner area before the antemedial line and the 

 inner half of tenninal area suffused with white ; subbasal line 

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

 indistinctly double, the inner line brown, the outer black, evenly 

 excurved ; orbicular, reniform, and a spot below the former large, 

 defined by black with some raised scales on their edges, the 

 orbicular and spot below it open above and below, the latter 

 oblique quadrate ; postmedial line double, the inner line black, 

 slight to vein 3, then strong, the outer brown, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to discal fold, incurved below vein 5 

 and excurved on inner area, some greyish points with dark streaks 

 between them beyond it on costa and a white line on inner area ; 

 subterminal line white slightly defined on each side by brown, 

 with double dentate black mark before it below costa and some 

 black beyond it at apex, minutely waved ; a waved black terminal 

 line. Hind wing with the basal half whitish suffused with red- 

 brown, the terminal half red-brown ; cilia wliite with some red- 

 brown at base ; the underside white irrorated with brown, the 

 terminal area brown, a small brown discoidal lunule. 



Hah. BuiTAiisr, Leech Coll. ; Feance ; Gteemany, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; ArsTEiA ; Huxgaey ; Switzeelais'd ; Spaiis', 

 Castile, Bilbao ; N. Italy, Courmayeur (JSauqysoii) ; Aemexia ; 

 Asia Mixoe, Pontus ; W. Tuekestan, Tarbagata,i ; W. Sibeeia, 

 Altai ; E. Sibeeia, Amurland. Sa-p. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 160; Ban-ett, Lep. Brit. ti. p. 137. pi. 244. 

 f. 1 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 132, pi. 3.5. f. 1. 



Pale green mixed with whitish on dorsum ; dorsal series of darker 

 elliptical marks ; subdorsal series of oblique darker streaks ; lateral 

 line white connected on 4th to 6th somites by white lines with the 

 dorsal area ; 11th somite with two dorsal prominences ; 1st two 

 pairs of prolegs smaller. Food-plants : JJrtica, Epilohmm, etc. 

 8-9. 



8487. Abrostola asclepiadis. 



Noctua asclepiadis, Soliiff, Wien. Verz. p. 91 (1776); Hlibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 627; Fit. Neue Beitr. pi. 286; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 

 Abrostola jagowi, Bartel, Iris, xyii. p. 160 (1904). 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with whitish ; black 

 bars on frons and between antennae; tegulse edged with black in 

 front and at middle ; prothorax with pair of small blackish spots ; 

 palpi, pectus in front, and legs dark brown, the tarsi ringed with 

 white ; abdomen brown mixed with whitish, the crests blackish. 

 Fore wing brown glossed with grey, the basal area ochreous tinged 

 with pink and white with slight dark subbasal marks ; antemedial 

 line double, the outer line black, the inner red-brown, slightly 

 excurved below costa and evenly excurved below subcostal nervure ; 



