so NOCTTTIDiR, 



dark rufous ; a slight brown streak in submedian fold to the ante- 

 medial line, which is double, highly angled outwards in the inter- 

 spaces and inwards on the veins, indistinct except below vein 1 ; 

 the inner medial area suffused with rufous ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by some dark points on their edges ; postmedial line 

 obsolete except below vein 2, where it forms two whitish lunules 

 defined on each side by red-brown ; an oblique series of rufous 

 streaks from apex to vein 6 and others from termen below apex to 

 vein 4 ; the terminal area towards toruiis from vein 4 obliquely to 

 lunules of postmedial line red-brown with some slight whitish 

 streaks on it ; cilia strongly crenulate and intersected with white, 

 with fine pale line at base, then blackish and brown at tips. Hind 

 wing yellowish tinged with red-brown, the veins and terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; in female dark reddish brown, the basal and 

 inner areas paler ; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated or suffused with brown, a small discoidal Innule. 



Bab. Bkitain, Leech Coll. ; Peance, Leech Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austkia, Leech Coll. ; Switzeelawd, 

 Frey Coll. ; ? Algeeia ; S. Scandinavia ; Etjssia, Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Aemenia ; Asia Minoe, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia ; Syria, 

 Beyrout {Jessop)^ 1 c? ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exp. 48-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 49; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 64, pi. 238. f. 1. 



Blue-white with a yellow band on each segment ; double dorsal 

 series of bent black marks alternating with black spots ; a spiracular 

 series of yellow spots and black marks ; head yellow spotted with 

 black. Food-plants : Verbascum and Scrophularia. 6-7. 



2168. Cucullia prenantMs. 



Cucullia jorenanthis, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. f54 (1840) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 214. 

 Fociua ceramanthea, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. pi. 432 (1852) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Koct. ff. 18.5-6. 

 Noctua blattariw, Dap. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 124. f. 5 (nee Esp.). 



Head rufous with some whitish on frontal tufts ; thorax grey 

 tinged with red-brown ; tegulae with two slight medial lines and 

 red-brown tips ; dorsum of thorax red-brown ; abdomen greyish 

 suffused with brown, the dorsal crests red-brown. Fore wing pale 

 rufous with some whitish above the dark marks on inner area ; the 

 costal area towards apex dark brown with some white points on it ; 

 a faint brown streak in submedian fold to the antemedial line, which 

 is highly angled outwards in the interspaces and inwards on the 

 veins, very indistinct except from submedian fold to vein 1, where 

 it is double ; an oblique dark broAvn fascia on medial part of inner 

 margin ; orbicular and reniform obsolete ; postmedial line obsolete 

 except below vein 2, where it forms two whitish lunules defined on 

 each side by brown ; a slight brown streak above medial part of 

 vein 4 ; the terminal area towards tornus obliquely from vein 4 to 

 postmedial lunules dark brown with slight whitish streaks on it; cilia 

 brown at base intersected with white, greyish at tips. Hind wing 



