328 N-OCTUID^. 



margin near base ; subbasal line represented by double black strise 

 from costa and cell filled in with i:)inkish ; antemedial line double 

 filled in with pinkish, waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold, 

 then angled inwards on vein 1 and bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 claviform small, acute at extremity and indistinctly defined by 

 black, with diffused black streak below it between ante- and post- 

 medial lines ; orbicular and reniform with dark centres and pinkish 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 with straight inner edge ; traces of a waved medial line oblique 

 from costa to below median nervure ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; the postmedial area suffused with pinkish rufous especially 

 in submedian interspace ; subterminal line ochreous white, defined 

 on inner side by small dentate black marks below costa and at 

 middle, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3, and with slight dark 

 streaks beyond it in the interspaces to the terminal series of black 

 points ; cilia fuscous with a series of ochreous points at base. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown with an ochreous tinge ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia with series of ochreous points at base and dark 

 line at middle ; the underside pale ochreous, the costal area tinged 

 with rufous and irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule, 

 curved postmedial line, and traces of difi'used subterminal line. 



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

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

 Italy ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., 

 Urals; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 $ , Ussuri. 

 Eocp, 44-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 132 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 112, pi. 149. f. 2. 



Pinkish brown, darker above ; dorsal line indistinct, interrupted ; 

 subdorsal series of indistinct oblique grey streaks ; spiracular line 

 greenish yellow ; head brown. Food-plants : Humulus, Lonicera, 

 Cherry, &c. 7-8. 



2497. Eumichtis adjuiicta. (Plate CIV. fig. 7.) 



Hadena aclpmcta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 357 ; Hmpsn. Moths lud. ii. 

 p. 209. ' 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and fuscous, 

 sometimes tinged with rufous ; frons with black bar ; tegula3 with 

 black line towards tips ; patagia with blackish outer edge ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white. Fore wing grey, almost wholly suff'used 

 with i)urplish or reddish brown and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black strite from costa and cell ; a sinuous 

 black streak in base of submedian fold and an oblique streak above 

 inner margin before the antemedial line, which is double, the inner 

 line indistinct, oblique, excurved in the interspaces and angled 

 inwards on the veins ; claviform defined by black, small or elongate, 

 acute at extremity and with strong black streak from it to post- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform large, with slight whitish 



