EUEOIS. 617 



paler thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah, Canada, Vancouver I., 1 $ type ; U.S.A., Washington Terr., 

 1 5 , Colorado, California, Exp. 40 millim. 



1069. Enrols prasina. 



Noctua prasina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins, ii. 



p. 169 (1787); Stand. Cat. Lep. pat. p. 153; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 57. 

 Noctua herbida, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 76, 605 ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 26.3 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 248 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 30, pi. 27. f. 3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 395, pi. 97. f. 3. 

 Noctua egregia, Esp. Schmett. pi. 119. f. 7 (1792). 

 Noctua jasjpidea, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 440 (1793). 

 Noctua mixta, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 187 (1809). 

 Polyphcenis herhacea, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 73 (1852). 

 Agrotis albimacula, Hormuz. Ent. Nachr. 1894, p. 53. 



Head whitish and green ; palpi black, white at tips ; thorax dark 

 or pale red-brown mixed with green, white, and black scales ; 

 abdomen grej^-brown or whitish brown. Fore wing purple-brown, 

 grey-brown, or rarely whitish with diffused yellow-green fasciae on 

 costa, in discal fold, below the cell and vein 2, and on inner margin ; 

 a double, waved, black subbasal line from costa to vein 1 filled in 



Fig. 110. — Eurois2)rasina, (^. \. 



with white, a similar oblique antemedial line filled in with green on 

 inner area ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, defined by black and with greyish annuli, the former oblique, 

 elliptical, the latter with large whitish patch beyond it before the 

 postmedial line, which is double, dentate, and produced to points 

 on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; some white points on apical part of costa ; a subterminal 

 series of dentate green marks, angled outwards at vein 7, with some 

 black before it at costa and dentate black marks below costa and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia intersected 

 with, fuscous. Hind wing dark or pale red-brown ; the cilia 

 yellowish white ; the underside with dark discoidal spot, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and diffused subterminal line. 



Hab. Canada (Norman), 2 S ; U.S.A., Massachusetts, Beverly, 

 2 c?, 2 $ , New York, 1 J , 1 $ , Iowa, Colorado ; Britain ; France ; 

 Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Scandi- 



