ETJillCHTIS. 337 



2505. Eumiclitis accipitrina. 



Noctua accqnti-ina, Esp. Scliniett. iv. p. 393, pi. 129. f. 4 (1788), 



Noctua tenehrosa, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 451, pi. 142. f. 3 (1789). 



Noctua swportcB, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p, 410, pi. 98. f. 4 (1826); Geyer, Eur. 



Schmett., Noet. ff. 836, 8.37; Herr.-Schaff. Eui-. Scbiuett., Noct. f. 53; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 182. 

 Noctua ilicis, Err. Neue Beitr. iv. pi. 292. f. 3 (nee Dup.). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with gre3dsh ; frons with 

 hlaek bar ; tegulae with black medial line ; patagia with black line 

 near edges ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen reddish brown 

 mixed with greyish and fuscous. Fore wing red-brown mixed with 

 greyish and suffused and irrorated in parts with fuscous ; a sinuous 

 black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by double 

 striae from costa ; antemedial line double at costa, then oblique, 

 somewhat dentate, bent inwards to inner margin; claviform defined 

 by black, with pale red somewhat bidentate patch beyond it and 

 black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial line ; orbicular 

 and reniform pale reddish with pale annidi defined by black, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the area beyond the latter pale reddish to 

 the postmedial line ; an indistinct irregular medial line ; postmedial 

 line defined by greyish on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line pale slightly defined 

 by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and somewhat 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, the area beyond it rather darker with dark 

 streaks in the interspaces to the terminal series of lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous intersected with \a hitish and with pale lines at base and 

 middle. Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal half suffused 

 with brown, a discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, blackish 

 'terminal line, and slight pale subterminal line ; cilia whitish with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with red-brown, a black discoidal spot, 

 ■crenulate postmedial line, and terminal series of slight lunules. 



Hob. Feaxce, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. : Geejuany, Leech 

 Coll. ; Spain, Castile ; Italy ; Dalmaiia ; Geeece, Leech ColL 

 Exj). 38-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 222. 



Green when young, grejr when adult. Food-plant, IJex. 



2506. Eumichtis monocliroma. 



Noctua monocliroma, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 155. ff. 3-6 (1791); Stand. Cat, 



Lep. pal. p. 182. 

 Noctua clistans, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Koct. iT. 522-23 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 262, pi. 89. f. 4. 

 Haclena mheris, Boisd. Ind. Metb. p. 72 (1829); Err. Beitr. ii. pi. 124. 



ff. 1, 2 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 268, pi. 117. ff. 1, 2. 



Head and thorax grey-brown mixed with some black ; frons with 

 hlack bar ; tegulge with black medial line and black tips ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upper edge ; tarsi black ringed with 



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