000 NOCTUID^. 



defined on inner side by red-brown, slightly excurved below costa 

 and evenly excurved below subcostal nervure ; orbicular, reniform, 

 and a spot below outer edge of former large, defined by black and 

 with some raised scales on their edges ; postmedial line reddish 

 brown and indistinct to vein 5, then black defined on outer side by 

 red-brown, strongly bent outwards below costa, then incurved, 

 excurved above inner margin, some grey points beyond it on costa 

 and a whitish line on inner area ; subterminal line represented by a 

 series of black points on the veins with slight whitish streaks 

 before them and three black streaks below costa, and by a blackish 

 bar defined on inner side by white towards tornus ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing with 

 the basal half whitish suffused with brown, the terminal half 

 brown ; cilia white with slight brown spots near base ; the under- 

 side with the basal half whiter, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight brown discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Clarissa. Much paler and greyer. — Asia Minor, Syria. 



Hah. Bbitaik, Leech Coll. ; France ; Gebmant, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Hukgary ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Algeria ; G-reece ; Balkan States ; 

 ScANDiNAYiA; RussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus, Taurus, Antioch, Bythinia ; Syria, Mardin ; 

 W. Siberia; E. Sibebia, Amm-land, Ussuri; Japan, Hakodate, 

 1 S , Tokio (Maries), 1 c? , 1 $ , Oiwake (Pri/er), 1 ? , Yokohama 

 (Pr^er), 1 J ; W. China, Chia-kou-ho (Pratt), 2 S , Pu-tsu-fong, 

 1 c? , 1 $ , Moupin (Kricheldorf), 1 6 . Eocp. 34-40 miUim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 163; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 140, pi. 244. 

 f. 2; Hffin. Haiip. pi. 34. f. 18. 



Ohve-green or purplish brown ; dorsal fine pale, interrupted by 

 pale-edged dark blotches on somites 4, 5 and 11 ; lateral series of 

 pale oblique streaks ; spiraciilar line ochreous white ; 11th somite 

 with pair of dorsal prominences ; head pale greyish ochreous 

 freckled with brown ; the 1st two pairs of prolegs smaller. Food- 

 plants : Urtica, Humulus, Lamium, etc. 7-9. 



8439. Abrostola anopMoides. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 28.) 



Ahrosfola anophioides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 148 (1882); Hmpsn. Moths 

 Incl. ii. p. 577. 



S . Head and thorax brown mixed with purplish grey ; pectus 

 ochreous behind ; abdomen brown mixed with grey, the lateral 

 fringes of hair and anal tuft ochreous. Fore wing fuscous brown 

 tinged with purplish grey, the basal area with an ochreous tinge ; 

 subbasal line slight, dark, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black defined on inner side by red-brown, excurved 

 below costa, then sinuous ; orbicular, reniform, and a rounded spot 

 below the outer edge of former large, defined by black and with 

 raised scales on their edges ; postmedial line indistinct and reddish 

 brown to vein 3, then black defined on outer side by red-brown, 

 strongly bent outwards beloAV costa, then oblique and sinuous to 



