MTTHIMNA. 60o 



r Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 107; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 225, pi. 214. f. 1. 

 Pale green, or reddish ochreous with darker irroration ; pale 

 dorsal and sometimes subdorsal lines ; a lateral series of dark 

 oblique streaks sometimes present ; spiracular line pale greenish or 

 whitish; head greenish. Pood-plants: Salix, Rumex, Plantago, 

 etc. 5-7. 



Sect. II. {Orthosia). Antemiaj of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the ground-colour red-brown ruhricosa. 



B. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a. Fore wing with the lines distinct ccscimacula. 



b. Fore wing with the lines indistin ct senex. 



1051. Mythimna ruhricosa. 



Noctua ruhricosa, Schiff.Wien.Verz. p. 77 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 176 

 (1787) ; Hilbn. Eur. Schmett, Noct. f. 430 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 99, 

 pi. 79 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 160 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 153. 



Nuctua 'iimcida, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 148. f. 4 (1786). 



Noctua piiicornis, Brahiu. Ins. ii. p. 193 (1791). 



Noctua rufa, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 232 (1803). 



Noctua mista, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Koct. f. 509 (1827). 



Head and thorax purple or red-brown suffused with grey ; palpi 

 blackish except at tips ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen dark 

 brown. Pore wing dark red or purple-brown suffused with grey ; 

 a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an oblique 



Fig. 106. — Mythimna ruhricosa, (5 . \. 



waved antemedial line defined by grey on outer side ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by brown, the former round, the latter with some 

 "fuscous in its lower extremity ; an indistinct waved medial shade 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; the post- 

 medial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, defined by 

 grey on outer side, bent outAvards below costa, slightly angled 

 inwards in discal fold, and incurved below vein 4 ; some whitish 

 points on costa towards apex ; the subterminal line brown, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of blackish points ; cilia brown, with a grey line through 

 them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia tinged with pink ; the 

 underside pale thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line, 



Ab. 1. rufa. Much redder. 



One specimen has an oblique bar between vein 8 and middle of 

 cell of hind win^. 



