230 K0CTUID3S. 



2378. Derthisa trimacula. 



Bomhyx trimactila, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 59 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eiir. Schmett., 



Noct. e: 141-2 ; Boisd. Icones, pi. 72. f. 1 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 401. 



£P. 5-7 ; Dup. L(5p, Fr. p. 193, pi. 85. f. 3 ; Hei-r.-SchafF. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. ff. 105-7. 

 Noctua tcrsa, Scbiif. Wien. Verz. p. 312 (1776) ; Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., 



Bomb. f. 140; Boisd. Icones, pi. 72. ff. 2, 3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. 



p. 164, pi. 15. f. 6. 

 Noctua glavcina, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 81. ff. 4, 6 (1789) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 176. 

 Noctua dentimacula, Hiibn. Beitr. Schmett. ii. pt. 1, p. 13, pi. ii. f. G (1827). 

 Episema hispana, Boisd. Icones, pi. 72. ff. 4, 5 (1832) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. iii. 



pi. 16. ff. Ya,b; Embr. Ann. 5?oc. Eiit. Fr. (2) vi. p. 66; id. Cat. Lep. 



S. And. pi. 6. f. 4 & pi. 8. f. 1 ; Oberth. Et. Ent. xiii. pi. vi. f. 42. 

 Episema gruneri, Boisd. Icones, pi. 73. ff. 1, 2 (1832) ; Mill. Ann. Soc. 



Cannes, 1878, p. 35, pi. 4. ff. 8-10. 

 Episema unicolor, Dup. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. iv. p. 193, pi. 4. f. 1 (1835) ; 



id. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 166, pi. 15. f. 7. 

 Episema tersina, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 95 (1872). 

 Episema mericlionalis, Calb. Iris, i. p. 235 (1884). 

 Episema alUda, Oberth. Et. Ent. xiii. pi. vi. f. 43 (1890). 



Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with brown ; palpi 

 black-brown at sides ; abdomen ochreous white slightly tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing pale greyish ochreous slightly irrorated 

 with brown ; the medial area suffused with broAvn except costal and 

 inner areas, the veins remaining pale ; subbasal line represented 

 by black points below costa and cell ; a diffused brown fascia above 

 base of inner margin ; the autemedial line obliquely excurved from 

 costa to vein 1, then obsolete ; orbicular and reniform very large, 

 ochreous white tinged with red-brown and incompletely defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical extending to well below cell and 

 confluent on median nervure with the latter, the cell before and 

 between them and the area beyond and below the reniform dark 

 brown ; postmedial line double arising from towards apex, excurved 

 below costa and at middle, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it being tinged 

 with red-brown, curved and slightly waved ; a terminal series of 

 slight brown lunules ; cilia greyish tinged with rufous. Hind 

 wing ochreous white tinged with red-brown, especially in female, 

 and with traces of a sinuous postmedial line ; the underside 

 whiter. 



Ab. 1. liispana. Pore wing with the ground-colour tinged with 

 blue. 



Ab. 2. tersina. Pore wing with the ground-colour ochreous, the 

 dark markings reduced. 



Ab. 3. gruneri. Fore wing with the ground-colour whitish, the 

 dark markings reduced to two black spots in cell. 



Ab. 4, dentimacula. Fore wing with the ground-colour brownish, 

 a small blaclc spot between the stigmata and some brown before 

 medial part of postmedial line. 



Ab. 5. glaucina. Fore wing rufous with the dark markings 

 almost obsolete. 



