110 



noctuid.^j:. 



line double, the outer line black, miiiutelj' waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform small with fuscous centres and white anuuli slightly 

 defined by black, the former round ; an indistinct diffased bi'own 

 medial line ; postraedial line black defined by whitish on outer side, 

 slight!}' bent outwards below costa, dentate at veins 6, 4, 3, 2, 1, 

 incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 to near origin of vein 2, 

 then oblique ; the interspaces of terminal area with black streaks 

 not reaching termen with Avhitish streaks above and below, most of 

 them to termen ; cilia chequered dark brown and white. Hind 

 wing dark reddish brown with indistinct diffused whitish medial 

 band ; cilia white chequered with brown at base ; the underside 

 with the white band more distinct and emitting a streak in sub- 

 median fold to base, the termen white. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Frey 

 and Leech Colls. : Hungary, Leech Coll.; Spain ; Italy; Balcans ; 

 Armenia; Asia Minor; Syria, Leech Coll., Mardin. Exp. 2Q- 

 -32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Ei;r. p. 253 ; Hffm. Raup. p. r25,pl. 33. f. 7. 



Green with black points and white dorsal line. Food-plants : 

 Antirrhinum and Scahiosa ocliroleuca. 6. 



2208. Omphalophaiia serrata. 



Clenphana serrata, Treit. Schmett. Eur., Suppl. x. (2) p. 121 (1835) ; Geyer, 

 Eur. Schmett., Noot. f. 871 ; Feisth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 299, pi. 12. 

 f. 2 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 426, pi. 37. f. 5 ; Rn:br. Faun. Andal. 

 pi. 18. f. 6 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. (56. ff. 1^ 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 213. 



Chophana arctata, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 161 (1852). 



S . Head and thorax purplish grey mixed with brown and 

 black ; tegu]a3 with slight black lines at middle and near tips 

 defined by white behind ; tarsi with slight whitish rings ; abdomen 

 brown mixed with whitish. Fore wing purplish grey suffnsed with 

 yellow-brown beyond the postmedial line and on terminal area; a 

 black streak in base of cell and a subbasal streak below cell on diffused 

 white fasciae; antemedial line double filled in with white and with 

 some blackish suffusion before it, curved and slightly angled inwards 

 below costa; orbicnlar and reniform small, approximated, with 

 fuscous centres and slight white annuli defined by black, the 

 former round; an indistinct medial line; postmedial line double 

 filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then produced to 

 short white streaks on the veins followed by black streaks, incurved 

 at discal fold and below vein 4 to below orbicular and approximated 

 to antemedial line, some oblique white strias from costa beyond it ; 

 a series of white streaks on terminal area and cilia, forking on each 

 side of veins, in the interspace below vein 4 connected inwardly and 

 forming a lunule. Hind wing with the basal half whitish tinged 

 with brown, the terminal half brown, narrowing to tornus ; the 

 veins darker ; cilia white chequered with pale brown on apical 

 half; tho underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule, the veins and a diff'used subterminal band brown. 



