244 KOCTUIDiE. 



Hiud wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



A. Fore wing without prominent oblique medial shade from 



costa to lower angle of cell. 



a. Fore wing narrow, with dark streak on middle of inner 



margin semibnmnea. 



b. Fore wing broader, without dark streak on inner 



margin socia. 



B. Fore wing with prominent oblique medial shade from 



costa to lower angle of cell ledereri. 



2393. Lithophane semibrunnea. 



Nochia semibrunnea, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 171 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 

 Haust. ii. p. 170, pi. 21. f. 3 ; Mill. Icones, pi. 33. ff. 1-3 ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 210. 



Nociua oculata, Germ. Faun. Ins. ix. pi. 18 (1836) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. iii. 

 p. 373, pi. 34. f. 4; Herr.-Schaff. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 460; Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. pi. 516. f. 2. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with 

 purplish fuscous, the prothoracic crest and outer edge of patagia 

 at base purple-fuscous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous, the 

 dorsal crests purplish black. Pore wing suffused with rufous, 

 the inner half or sometimes nearly the whole wing dark red- 

 brown with purplish-black streaks on middle of inner margin and 

 in submedian fold beyond middle ; a slight pale streak below base 

 of cell with brown streak below it ; subbasal line represented by a 

 faint pale, very oblique striga from costa ; the antemedial line 

 represented by double black points on the veins, with traces of a 

 pale dentate line beyond them, strongly angled outwards in sub- 

 median fold ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular and reniform with very 

 indistinct pale annuli defined by brown, the former very oblique 

 elliptical, the latter constricted at middle ; postmedial line repre- 

 sented by a double series of black points on the veins, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, strongty incurved and 

 represented by a pale lunule in submedian fold ; subterminal line 

 pale, somewhat dentate, angled outwards to termen on veins 4, 3, 

 the area beyond it rather darker. Hind wing ochreous whitish 

 suffused with brown, especially on the veins and terminal area ; 

 cilia whitish at tips ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved punctiform 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; S. France ; Germany, Pomerania, 

 Brunswick, Zeller Coll, ; Austria, Prey and Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; 

 Italy ; Bulgaria. Exp. 42-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 51 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 25, pi. 235. f. 1. 



Bright green irrorated above with yellowish white ; dorsal line 

 white ; subspiracular line yellowish white ; subbasal and lateral 

 series of irregular whitish marks. Pood-plant, Ash. 5-7. 



