660 i^ocTvnyM. 



6000, Erastria trabealis. 



Phalcsna trabealis, Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 240 (1763) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 233. 

 Pyralis sulphur alls, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 881 (1767) ; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Eut., Haust. iii. p. 117 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 315. 

 Noctua arabica, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 412 (1767). 

 Noct'ua sulphtirea, Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 93 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 164. f. 6 (1789) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f.291 ; Dup. Lep. Ff. 



vii. pt. i. p. 376, pi. 123. f. 3. 

 Mctua trabeata, Scriba, Beitr. p. 153, pi. 10. f. 8 (1790). 

 Bombyx lugubris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 1. p 467 (1793). 

 Erastria pardalma, Wlk. xxxiii. 794 (1865). 

 Agrophila nigra, Ersch. Fedtsch. Eeis. p. 52, pi. 3. f. 50 (1874). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown ; palpi yellow except at tips ; 

 frons yellowish white ; tegiilse yellowish white at base, the patagia 

 and dorsum of thorax wdth yellow fasciae ; pectus and legs yellowish 

 white mixed with brown, the tarsi banded with brown ; abdomen 

 yellowish white dorsally suifused with brown leaving slight pale 

 segmental lines. Fore wing pale yellow ; dark red-brown fasciae 

 along median nervure and vein 1 to postmedial line ; antemedial, 

 medial, and postmedial oblique wedge-shaped brown spots on costa 

 and small elliptical spots at middle and end of cell ; postmedial line 



Fig. \^\S.— Erastria trabealis, S- \- 



Avith small spot at costa, below vein 6 forming an irregular sinuous 

 band, oblique to submedian fold, then bent outwards to inner 

 margin ; an oblique subterminal spot from apex, a small spot at 

 middle and geminate spot in submedian interspace ; cilia dark brown 

 at apex, middle, and towards tornus. Hind wing cupreous red- 

 brown ; cilia white with a brown line near base ; the underside 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot, narrow 

 postmedial band, excurved to vein 2, then obsolescent, and a narrow 

 irregular terminal band from below apex to submedian fold. 



Ab. 1. nigra. Fore wing almost entirely or wholly fuscous black. — 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Feance, Leech Coll, (Eaton) ; Dbn- 

 -MAKK ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary- ; 

 Switzerland ; Spain ; Italy, Courmayeur {Hampson), Capri ( C. S. 

 Browne) ; Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Dalmatia ; Greece, Merlin Coll. ; 

 Cyprus (Glazner); S. Sweden; Russia, Livonia; Armenia; Asia 

 Minor ; Syria, Leech Coll., Beyrout {Jessop) ; Mesopotamia ; Persia ; 



