108 JfOCTUlDJE. 



curved, the outer line black, minutely dentate ; a rather ditfused 

 fuscous medial line excurved at lower angle of cell; reuiforra a 

 slight white lunula; postmedial line black defined by white on outer 

 side, slightly bent outwards below costa, then broken up into points 

 and incurved at discal fold, below vein 4 incurved to below end of 

 cell, then continuous and outwardly oblique with slight rufous line 

 beyond it, two white points beyond it on costa ; the interspaces of 

 terminal area more distinctly streaked with white ; cilia chequered 

 brown and white. Hind wing fuscous brown, the inner area 

 whitish; cilia white tinged \Aith brown; the underside whitish, 

 the basal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, an indistinct 

 diffused postmedial line with slight dark streaks at the veins. 



Hah. 8.E. France, Sand, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Spain, Murcia. 

 Exj^. 26 millim. 



2206. Amephana dejeani. 



Isoctua dcjeanil, Deip. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 238, pi. 115. f. 2 (1827); id. Suppl. 

 iii. pi. 35. f. 1 ; Heri-.-Schaff. Eur. SL-hmett., Noct. f. 15G ; Frr. Neue 

 Eeitr. pi. 256. f. 1 ; Stand; Cat. Lep. pal. p. 211. 



Head and thorax pale brownish grey mixed with some black ; 

 patagia with whitish patches edged with black ; logs with red- 

 brown and white hair ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with 

 brown. Fore wing brownish grey suffused with cupreous red- 

 brown before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial line ; a 

 slight black streak in base of cell ; antemedial line double filled in 

 with white, very oblique from costa, excurved to submedian fold, 

 angled inwards above vein 1, then strongly excurved; claviform 

 elliptical, extending from the antemedial to the postmedial line, 

 with brown centre and white annulus defined by black below and. 

 at extremity ; orbicular small, round, confluent with antemedial 

 line, with slight white annulus; reniform small with brown centre 

 and white annulus rather produced at extremities ; postmedial line 

 defined by white on outer side, angled inwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 6, incurved at discal fold and very strongly below vein 4 to 

 below cell, two white points beyond it on costa; the veins of 

 terminal area streaked with black, defined on each side by white 

 forming sagittate marks and a V-shaped mark at apex ; cilia brown 

 intersected with white. Hind wing ochreous, the veins and terminal 

 half reddish brown ; ci'ia chequered brownish while and red- 

 brown ; the underside ochreous white, the veins brown, a discoidal 

 lunule, indistinct diffused postmedial line, and diff'uscd subterminal 

 band. 



Hah. S. France, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Spain, Anda- 

 lusia ; Italy; (treece; Algeria; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus, 

 1 c7 . Exji. 22-24 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 253 ; Tiffin. Raup. p. 125. 



Pale yellow with red sul)dorsal lines spotted with wiiitc and red 

 gpiraclcs. Food-plant, Uclianlhoiiuia. 



