ABEOSTOLA.. 587 



orl)icular, reiiiform, and a spot below outer edge of former large, 

 defined by black with some raised scales on their edges and slight 

 greyish centres ; postmedial line double, the inner line brown to 

 vein 5, then black, the oiiter red-brown, bent outwards below costa, 

 then slightly sinuous to vein 5, then incurved and excurved above 

 inner margin, some greyish points beyond it on costa and a whitish 

 line on inner area ; subterminal line whitish with two slight black 

 streaks before it below costa and slight black streaks beyond it on 

 the veins, minutely dentate ; a black terminal line ; cilia pale 

 reddish brown chequered with blackish at tips. Hind wing with 

 the basal half Avhitish suffused with brown, the terminal half 

 brown ; cilia white tinged with red-brown ; the underside with the 

 basal area whiter, the costal area tinged with red-brown, a small 

 brown discoidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. jagovi. Fore wing with the basal area not tinged with 

 pink and without dark marks. — Engadine. 



Hah. Fbance, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, Gotland ; Germany, 

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

 Zeller Coll, Engadine; IST. Italy; Dalmatia ; S.W. Eussia ; 

 E. Siberia, Ussmi ; Japan. Exji. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 267; Hffm. Eaup. p. 132, pi. 34. 

 f. 19. 



Bluish white with numerous black dots and a yellow lateral 

 stripe; 1st two pairs of prolegs smaller. Food-plant, Cynanclium 

 vincetoxicum. 5-6. 



8438. Abrostola triplasia. 



Nochia iriplasia, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 517 (1758) ; Esp. Sclimett. iv. 



pi. 169. ff 1-3 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. G26 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 1. 



p. 486, pi. 132. f. 1 ; Frr. Nene Beitr. pi. 285 ; Lerl. Wien. Ent. Mon. 



V. pi. 2. f. 2 (1861); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 235. 

 Plusia Clarissa, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 381 (1899), 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with ochreous white ; 

 black bars on frons and between antennae ; tegulse edged with 

 black ; prothorax with pair of small black sjiots ; palpi, pectus, and 



legs dark brown ; abdomen dark brown with some ochreous white 

 at base, the crests blackish. Fore wing brown mth a greyish 

 gloss, the basal area pale reddish brown ; antemedial line black 



