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^'OCTUIDiE. 



above ; abdomen red-brown, paler subdorsally towards base. Pore 

 wing red-brown, tinged with purplish pink below costa and on 

 vein 3 towards termen ; a white fascia on median nervure, on basal 

 half with a blackish streak below it; a whitish streak on base of 

 vein 1, with an oblique brown streak below its extremity : the sub- 

 basal and antemedial lines represented by oblique brown strife from 

 costa ; the orbicular obsolete ; the reniform narrow, with red-brown 

 centre with white line on it and white annulus ; the postmedial 

 line represented by black points on the veins bent outwards below 

 costa, then oblique ; some pale points on costa towards apex : 

 the subterminal line represented by an oblique fascia from apex 

 to vein 5 emitting dentate marks to termen on each side of 



Fio-. 41. — Aftlnotla pohjodon, (^ . \. 



veins 6, 7, tlien between veins 5 and 2 by a ^-mark ; some dentate 

 black marks before termen and a fine terminal white line ; cilia 

 with a dark brown line through them. Hind wing whitish, the 

 inner and terminal areas suffused with brown ; the veins brown ; 

 cilia white. Underside of fore wing with the apical area and termen 

 ferruginous, with dentate white marks on each side of the veins ; 

 hind wing with diseoidal point and indistinct curved postmedial 

 line, the costal area ferruginous. 



Hah. Britai]!^ ; Prance ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; Kussia, Urals ; Armenia ; W. 

 Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan ; Japan, Hakodate (XeecZi), 1 c? , 1 $ . 

 Exp. 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 12.5 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 39, pi. 189. f. 2. 



Pieddish brown with dark dots ; dorsal line narrow, yellow : a 

 subdorsal series of oblique brown marks ; spiracular line yellow, 

 dark-edged ; head browii. Pood-plant, Hypericum. 7, 8. 



221. Actinotia hyperici. 



JSoctua liypcrki, SchiiF. Wien. Verz. p. 76(1776); Hiibu. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 260 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 194, pi. 112. f. 5 ; Herr.-Schaif'. Eur. 

 Schmett. ii. p. 289, f. 334; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 



Head and thorax grey mixed with black-brown ; tegulse with 

 black medial line; patagia edged with black above; tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Pore wing grey ; 



