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vein 4, then iucurved, some white points beyond it on costa; sub- 

 terminal line formed of white lunules, defined on inner side by a 

 series of dentate black marks and on outer by some black scales, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a 

 terminal series of small black spots connected by a fine waved line; 

 cilia fuscous intersected with white, and with slight black line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins 

 and terminal area sufi'used with brown leaving some whitish on 

 termen towards toraus ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white ; the 

 underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a brown dis- 

 coidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and diflused subterminal 

 band. 



Hab. Denmark ; Gekmany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Atjsteia ; 

 Switzerland, Prey Coll. ; Corsica, Leech Coll. Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 240 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 97. 



Bluish or greenish grey with black warts. Pood-plant, Alopecurus 

 jpratensis. 6. 



Sect. II. Antennte of male almost simple. 



A. Fore wirig with the orbicular annulate and conjoined to a 



white annulus below cell culta. 



B. Fore wing with the orbicular quadrate, not conjoined to an 



annulus below cell munda. 



2483. Lamprosticta cnlta. 



Nodua culia, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 120. 



f. 4; Hllbn. Eur. Schmett., INoct. f. 34; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 361, 



pi. 95. f. 4 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. i. pi. 93. 

 Vhcdcena viridana, Walcb, Naturf. xiii. p. 28, pi. 3. fT. 5. a, b (1779) 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. 

 Mamestra adjwncta, Wlk. xi. p. 726 (1857). 



Head and tegulse white ; palpi black, white at extremity of 2ud 

 and 3rd joints ; frons black at sides, with black lateral bars and 

 black bar above ; vertex of head with black bar ; tegulae with 

 black lines near base and near tips which are black ; patagia white 

 edged with black and fringed with brown hair ; thorax olive-brown, 

 the crests on pro- and metathorax white and black ; tibiae white 

 spotted with black, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous on terminal 

 segments, the crests tipjjed with black, in female darker. Pore 

 wing olive-brown ; the veins streaked M'ith white and irrorated 

 with black ; a white jjatch at base of costa ; the subbasal line 

 represented by two black striae from costa and one from cell, a 

 point above vein 1 and some black above inner margin near base ; 

 antemedial line double, black filled in with white, angled outwards 

 below costa, incurved in cell and excurved below vein 1 ; claviform 

 a slight black mark ; orbicular and reniform white defined by 

 black and their centres defined by black, the former irregularly 

 rounded and connected with a rounded or rather triangular white 



