126 NOCTTJIDiE. 



2229. Calophasia lunula. 



PkalcBna lunula, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 394 (1767) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 213. 

 Noctua linarice, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 73 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 121. 



ff. 4-5 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 252; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 110. 



f. 6 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. pi. 171 ; Staph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 94. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown mixed with whitish ; 

 tegulse with the basal half whitish with black line near base ; tarsi 

 with slight pale rings. Fore wing whitish suffused with red-brown 

 especially on medial area and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a black j)oiit below costa ; a slight black 

 streak below base of cell to the elongate claviform, which is white 

 defined by black ; antemedial line represented by an oblique black 

 striga from costa and double stronglj- excurved line from submedian 

 fold to inner margin filled in with whitish; orbicular narrow, 

 elongate, defined by black ; reniform a small white lunule defined 



Fig. 35. — Calophasia lunula, d*. 1- 



by black at sides ; traces of a medial black shade ; postmedia] line 

 indistinctly double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 6, and very strongly incurved below 

 vein 4 to below end of cell ; some white points on costa towards 

 apex ; an oblique brown shade from apex to submedian fold, with 

 series of short black streaks on it in the interspaces ; a black streak 

 above vein 4 from reniform to termen ; some white and slight black 

 streaks in interspaces of terminal area and a slight incurved white 

 subterminal line from vein 3 to tornus ; a fine dark terminal line ; 

 cilia chequered white and brown. Hind wing white tinged with 

 red-brown, the veins and terminal area red-brown ; cilia white with 

 slight brown line near base from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 

 with minute discoidal spot, traces of postmedial line with slight dark 

 streaks on the veins, and diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. Melanic ; fore wing with the markings almost obsolete. 



Hab. Britain (once) ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech 

 Coll. ; Switzerland ; Spain ; Balkans ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Issyk Kul ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai ; E. Siberia, Amur. Exrj). 26-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 252 ; Hffin. Eaup. p. 125, pi. 33. 

 f. 6. 



Pearly white with the lines yellow ; a dorsal series of transverse 

 black spots and lateral series of black spots. Food-plants : Linaria 

 vulgaris, genistifolia, and repens. 5-8, 



