XRIPH^NA. 627 



angler! outwards at vein 7, then sinuous, with a rufous or greenish 

 patch with two white points on it on its inner side at costa and a 

 black spot below costa. Hind wing deep orange, with black terminal 

 band very broad at costa, narrowing to tornus ; the cilia orange. 

 Underside with the costal area of both wings tinged with white 

 towards apex. 



Hah. Britain ; France : Germany, Zeller Coll., Silesia, Frey 

 Coll. ; Sicily, Zeller Coll. ; Algiers ; Greece (^Merlin) ; Scandinavia; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor. Ea^p. 50-56 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 105 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 7, pi. 137. f. 2. 



Eeddish ochreous, brown-dotted, paler laterally ; dorsal line 

 obscurely pale ; a dark bar on somite 12 edged with pale behind ; 

 spiracles pale on dark spots ; head brown, with dark reticulations. 

 Food-plants : birch, hawthorn, Salix, Rumex, etc. 9-5. 



1079. Triphsena jaiithina. 



NocUm janthina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 104. ff. 4, 5; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noot. f. 100; Herr 



Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 328 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 160, pi. 59 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. 106 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 135. 

 TrvphcBna rufa, Tutt, Brit. Noct. ii. p. 92 ; Ter. Haar Tyds, 1896, Ver. 



p. 93, pi. i. f. 3. 

 Agrotis latimarginata, Eober. Ent. Nachr. 1900, p. 204. 



Head and base of tegulse creamy white, the rest of thorax 

 brown pencilled with grey ; palpi blackish at tips ; antennae brown 

 above ; pectus and legs creamy white, the tarsi with blackish 

 bands ; abdomen black-brown , the hair at sides and ventral surface 

 rufous. Fore wing dark brown, thickly irrorated with purplish 

 grey, more ochreous grey on inner medial area ; an indistinct 

 antemedial line slightly bent inwards to costa, where there is a 

 dark point ; orbicular and reniform moderate with, often in- 

 complete, white annuli, the former oblique, the latter rather figure- 

 of-8-shaped ; the postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 4, then 

 incurved and produced to slight streaks on the veins ; an indistinct 

 subterminal line angled outwards at vein 7 and escurved at middle, 

 with a rufous patch before it at costa with three pale points on it ; 

 a fine brown terminal line. Hind wing orange-yellow, the basal 

 area suffused with brown, on inner area extending to the terminal 

 black band, which expands on costal area and has its inner edge 

 excised at middle ; the termeu and cilia yellow. Underside of fore 

 wing fuscous black, with the costal and terminal areas pale ; 

 hind wing wath the costal area pale rufous. 



Ab. 1. rufa. Fore wing with the ground-colour bright rufous. 



Ab. 2. latimarginata. Smaller and darker, and with broader 

 terminal band to hind wing. — Hartz Mts. 



Hah. Britain ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; 

 Sicily ; Algiers ; Greece {Merlin) ; E,ussia, Livonia ; Armenia ; 

 Asia Minor. Exjj. 34-46 millim. 



