90 



NOCTUICi;. 



in submedian fold and outwards on the veins ; a slight black streak 

 above medial part of vein 4 ; the terminal area with slight brown 

 and white streaks ; a black streak above extremity of vein 3 and 

 oblique subterminal streak below vein 2 sometimes present. Hind 

 wing brownish white, the veins and terminal area suffused with 

 brown, in female the whole terminal half brown ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot. 



Hab. S.E. Geemany ; AtrsTRiA; Hungary, Frey and Leech Colls. ; 

 Oalicia ; S. E.USSIA, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk Kul. Exjj. 48-52 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 256. 



Pale yellow with an interrupted orange dorsal line ; subdorsal 

 series of black spots and lateral series of orange spots. Food- 

 plants : Rue, Hawkweed, &c. 



*2184. Empusada sabulosa. (Plate XCVIII. fig. 19.) 



Cuctdlia sahulosa, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1879, p. 322 : 

 pal. p. 215. 



id. Cat. Lep. 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous-white tinged with brown ; vertex 

 •of head with brown bar ; tegulas with fine blackish line near base, 

 two slight brown medial lines and brown line near tips ; tibiae with 

 brown streaks ; abdomen ochreous-white tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing ochreous-white slightly tinged with pale red-brown except the 

 the cell which is whiter, the veins slightly streaked with brown ; 

 cilia white with a faint brown line through them. Hind wing 

 white ; the veins tinged with brown ; the terminal area slightly 

 suffused with pale red-brown to vein 2 ; the underside nearly pure 

 white. 



Hab. S. PtUssiA, Narlin, cotype t c? iii Coll. Piingeler. Ecc_p. 44 

 millim. 



2185. Empusada lactea. 



JSfociua lactea, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 182 (1787) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 

 pi. 190. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 448; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 

 p. 436, pi. 127. f. 3, Suppl. iii. pi. 36. f. 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 215. 



White ; head and thorax with some fuscous mixed ; abdomen 



Em2msada lactea, cJ . 



slightly tinged with fuscous, 

 fuscous ; no trace of marking 



Fore wing irrorated with pale 

 Hind wing with the veins and 



