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NOCTTJIBiE. 



Ab. 2. arahs. Paler brown ; fore wing with the reniform 

 obsolescent. — Algeria. 



Hah. S. Peance, Zeller, Prey, and Leech Colls. ; Spain : 

 K". Italy, Prey Coll., Capri (C. >S', Browne); Dalmatia, Leech 

 Coll.; Gkeece, Leech Coll.; Algeria; S. Eussia, Sarepta, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Asia Min-qe, Bithynia ; Sykia, Beirut (Jessop), 1 $ . Kvj). 

 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eutt. & Moths Eur. p. 238 ; Hffm. Kaup. p. 96, pi. 27. f. 11. 



Yellowish brown, with fine dorsal line with whitish suffusion 

 below it and oblique brown subdorsal streaks ; lateral line yellowish. 

 Pood-plants : Cyclamen, Valeriana tuberosa, &c. 1-2. 



2500. Eumichtis sommeri. 



Hadena sommeri, Lef. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1836, p. 391, yA. 10. ff. 1, 2 ; 



Diip. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. .586, pi. 49. f. 1 ; Auviv. Bih. K. S. Vet.- 



Akad. Handl. xv. 4. p. 1.5, pi. 1. fF. 9, 10 ; Mill. Icones, ii. p. 61, pi. 58. 



ff. 4-6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171 ; Suiith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 137. 

 Hadena grmnland.ica, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 939 (1840). 

 Hadena picticollis, Zett. Ins. Lap. p. 939 (1840). 

 Hadena surtur, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. vi. p. 178, Noct. f. 638 



(1856). 

 Cripnodes islandicB, Mill. Icones, iii. p. 459 (1877). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous ; frons with 

 black bar ; tegulse with black medial line ; patagia with some 

 black scales near upper edge ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey, suffused with fuscous, whitish at base. Pore wing 

 grey suffused with fuscous, the veins with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by black strioe from costa and cell defined 

 by grey on outer side ; antemedial line black defined by whitish on 

 inner side, slightly angled outwards below costa, oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above 

 inner margin ; claviform large, indistinctly deiined by black ; the 

 medial area with black-brown suffusion in and beyond cell and 

 from above submedian fold to inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 grey defined by black, the former rather triangular, the latter with 

 irregular outline ; traces of a medial liiie oblique from costa to 

 median nervure, then inwardly oblique, waved ; postmedial line 

 double filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa, oblique to 

 vein 5 where it is acutely angled, then obliquelj' incurved, minutely 

 dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, some 

 white points beyond it on the veins ; subterminal line white, 

 dentate, defined on inner side by rather large diffused dentate 

 blackish marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen 

 at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it darker, with black streaks in the 

 interspaces from it to the terminal series of black lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous intersected with white. Hind wing white, tlie veins, 

 costal, inner, and terminal areas tinged and irrorated with fuscous : 

 a slight discoidal lunule, indistinct postmedial line, and diffused 

 subterminal band ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia white with a 

 brown line through them. 



