114 



NOCTUID^. 



a diffused brown subterminal band; cilia intersected with brown 

 towards apex ; the underside with slight discoidal spot and distinct 

 diffused postmedial line. 



Hah. Atjsteia, Galicia ; Hungaey, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 S. EussiA ; TuEKET. Exp. 24-32 raillim. 



Larva. Kirbj, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 155 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 74, pi. 21. 

 f. 18. 



Black with hairy warts and two dorsal white lines ; the sides 

 white spotted with black and with yellow lateral line ; segmental 

 incisions bordered with reddish yellow. Food-plant, Linaria 

 vulgaris. 6-8. 



2213. Oxicesta chamcenices. 



Bombyx sericina, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Bomb. f. 259 (1827) ; nee id. Beitr. ii. 

 Noctua chamcenices, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sehmett., Noet. f. 568 (1845). 

 Colocasia chamcgsyces, Guen. Noct. i. p. 40 (1852); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 134. 



Head and thorax yellowish white tinged with rufous in parts, the 

 upper half of patagia and dorsum of thorax deep red-brown ; 

 abdomen dark brown with some whitish hair and slight pale 

 segmental lines. Fore wing yellowish white almost wholly suffused 

 with dark red-brown ; subbasal line represented by slight dark spots 

 below costa and cell defined by whitish on outer side ; antemedial 

 line dark brown, rather diffused, defined by whitish on inner side, 

 oblique from costa to submedian fold, then outwardly oblique ; 

 postmedial line double except below submedian fold, dark brown 

 filled in with whitish, oblique from costa to discal fold, then 

 minutely dentate, angled outwards at vein 4 and inwards in sub- 

 median fold, then outwardly oblique to inner margin, the white 

 before it diffused inwards in submedian fold to antemedial line ;. 

 the terminal area with more or less prominent whitish streaks on 

 each side of the veins, forming V-shaped marks below veins 8, 7, 

 and 4; cilia more or less prominently chequered whitish and brown. 

 Hind wing uniform dark brown ; the cilia whitish at tips ; the 

 underside with the medial part of costal area and termen whitish 

 with diffused dark postmedial band from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, the inner edge of terminal band dentate. 



Hah. S. Fkance, Zeller, D'Emmich, and Leech Colls.; Spaiin^ 

 Catalonia, Murcia, Aragou ; JN". Italy. Exp. 24-28 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 155 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 74. 



Gregarious. Food-plants : Eupliorhia characias, nicoecusis, and 

 cJiamoisyce. 



Genus PSEUDANTHCECIA. 



Type. 



Fseudanthcecia, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent. Soe. x. p. 213 (1883) ticmida. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi obliquely porrect, the 2nd joint fringed 

 with long hair below, the 3rd rather long ; frons smooth with curved corneous 

 plate below ; eyes rather small ; antennte of male almost simple ; head and 

 thorax clothed with rough hair only and without distinct crests ; abdomen with 



