DERTHISA. 



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2382. DertMsa scoriacea. 



Bomhyx scoriacea, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 83. iF. 4, 5 (1786) ; Frr. Beitr. 



pi. 141. f. 3 ; Boisd. Icone.s, pi. 71. f. 1 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 157, 



pi. 15. f. 3; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 

 NoctuacaprecB, HiJbn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 19 (1827). 



Head and thofax ochreous white mixed with brown ; tegulae 

 with slight dark medial line ; tarsi brown with pale rings : abdomen 

 whitish suffused with ochreous brown. Pore wing grey-white 

 suffused in parts with pale rufous and irrorated slightly with brown, 

 the medial area suffused with reddish brown, the veins with slight 

 dark streaks ; subbasal line waved, from costa to subraedian fold ; 

 antemedial line double, obliquely exeurved, incurved at vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, rufous defined by black; orbicular and reniform 

 with whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, its centre 



Fig. 73. — Berthisa scoriacea, S . \. 



suffused by brown, the latter rather produced above with brown 

 lunule in centre followed by a rufous patch ; a sinuous medial shade ; 

 postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, exeurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, exeurved below submedian fold ; subterminal 

 line defined bj^ an oblique fuscous patch on inner side at costa, 

 then slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, exeurved at middle and incurved at submedian fold ; a 

 waved black terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous with a dark 

 brown line through them. Hind wing white with a fine dark 

 terminal line ; the female sometimes with traces of diffused sub- 

 terminal band ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a slight black discoidal point. 



Hob. Fn.iNCE, Sand Coll, ; Attsteia, Zeller and Frey Colls. ;, 

 Htingaet, Leech Coll. ; jS". and Centr. Italy ; Dalmatia, Leech 

 Coll. ; Asia Minor, Lydia, Pontus. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. Xlrby, Butt. & Moths, Eur. p. 215 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 92. 



Green; dorsal and subdorsal lines white; a broad white lateral 

 stripe. Pood-plants : Anthericum liliago and ramosum. 4, 5. 



*2383. DertMsa corsacovi. 



Agrotis JcorsaJcovi, Christ. Rom. Mem. ii. p. 35, pi. 2. f. 10 (1885), S ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 176. 

 Episema pcBiiutata, Christ. Eorn. Mem. ii. p. 45, pi. 2. f. 12 (1885), $. 



c? . Head and thorax very pale ochreous slightly mixed with 

 brown ; palpi and frons at sides black ; pectus suffused with black 



