320 NOCTTJID^. 



xib. 1. mioleuca. Thorax and fore wing without the white and 

 yellow markings. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; German r, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria ; Hungary, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Italy ; Sicily ? ; 

 Dalmatia; Galicia ; Bulgaria; Asia Minor, Pontus, Exj). 38- 

 40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 221 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 94, pi. 26. f. 23. 



Pale yellow with spade-shaped spots on dorsum intersected by a 

 pale line ; siibdorsal and lateral yellowish-white stripes. Food-plant, 

 Quercus pubescens. 5. 



2487. Agriopis convergens. 



Noctua convergens, Schiff. Wien. Yerz. p. 84 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. ii. p. 170 

 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 84 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 298, 

 pi. 91. f. 5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182, 



Noctua S2:)icula, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 166. f. 2 (1792). 



- Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and sometimes 

 tinged with rufous ; frons with black bar ; tegulse with brown 

 medial line and brown tips ; patagia with some black scales near 

 upper edge; fore femora edged with black at extremity; tarsi 

 with pale rings ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore wing whitish and purplish grey irrorated with fuscous ; a 

 sinuous black streak below base of cell ; two slight striae from 

 costa ; antemedial line double, oblique, slightly waved ; claviform 

 broad, defined by black, usually with a somewhat bidentate pale 

 mark beyondit, a black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and grey annuli 

 defined by black, the former somewhat oblique elliptical ; an in- 

 distinct irregular medial line, oblique from costa to below cell ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then denjate, strongly incurved below vein 4, with a more 

 prominent white lunule on it in submedian interspace and chestnut 

 patch beyond it in the fold and some pale points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish slightly defined by brownish on inner side 

 and by fuscous on outer, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurvcd 

 at middle, in submedian fold angled inwards and with black patch 

 beyond it ; the veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey with a fuscous 

 line through them. Hind wing grey suff'used with fuscous brown ; 

 a dark terminal line ; cilia grey with a fuscous line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal 

 annulus and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria, Frey Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland ; 

 K Italy; Bulgaria. Exp. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Kii-by, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 222 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 94, pi. 26. f. 22. 



Pale yellow above with dorsal and subdorsal whitish lines with 

 brown spade- shaped spots between them ; lateral area suffused 

 with brown, the lateral stripe yellow. Food-plant, Qaercus. 6, 



