302 



NOCTTJIDiE. 



oclireoiis patch between reniform and inner margin, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 

 terminal line formed by ochreous points defined by small dentate 

 dark marks on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle. Hind wing ochreous nearly uniformly suffused with 

 brown ; the fovea pale ; the cilia pinkish ; the underside grey 

 irrorated with brown, traces of a diffused medial line, a discoidal 

 point, a postmedial line excurved from below costa to vein 2, inter- 

 rupted in male by the fovea. 



Hah. Hungary, Zeller, Prey, and Leech Colls., Carniola ; Dal- 

 MATiA. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. _ Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 323. 



Yellowish, with yellowish-red heart-shaped dorsal spots divided 

 by paler lateral oblique stripes. Food-plant, Oak, 7-S. 



The Moth produces a slight sound during flight. 



Genus DRYOEOTA. 



Type. 



i)rj/o/w/«, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 100(1857) ./ 



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

 with hair in front and behind, the 3rd short, porrect ; frons smooth ; eyes 

 rather small and reniform ; antennas of male minutely serrate and fascicidate ; 

 thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales ; pectus clothed with long hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on basal segments and lateral fringes of hair. Pore 

 wing rather short and broad, the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell ; P from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsoles- 

 cent from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle or shortly stalked ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



2470. Dryobota furva. 



Noctua fwrm, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 530, pi. 158. ff. 1-2 (1789) ; Stand. Oat. 



Lep. pal. p. 182. 

 Noctua occlusa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 732 (1827) ; Ilerr.-Sehaff. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 62 ; Mill. Icones, i. p. 152, pi. 7. ff. 4-7. 

 Nociua cUdymoides, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 10(), pi. 107- f. 3 (1827). 



Head and tcgula) red-brown mixed with ochreous, the latter 

 with dark lines at middle and near tips ; thorax deep purple- 

 brown ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown tinged 



Fig. 94. — Dry ohoia furva, (^ . \, 



with purple-red. Fore wing purplish red slightly suffused with 

 fuscous; a black streak below base of cell; subbasal line double, 

 waved, from costa to submcdian fold ; antemcdial line double, 



