EUMICHTIS. 339 



Hah. SiKHiJi, Tongio, 10,000 feet. Exp. 32 millim. This species 

 is unknown to me. 



2508. EumicMis protea. 



Noctua jyrotea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 150. 



f. 6 (1790); Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 158, f. 386(1792); Iliibn. Eur. 



Schmett., JN'oct. f. 406 ; Dup. Lep. Er. vi. p. 259, pi. 89. f. 2 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lop. pal. p. 182. 

 Noctua, seladonia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 103 (1794) ; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. iii. p. 33. 



Head and thorax olive-green mixed with black to grey and rufous 

 mixed with black ; frons with black bar ; tegulfe with medial black 

 line and black tips ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen grej'ish 

 thickly irrorated Avith black, the base paler. Fore wing olive- 

 green to grey irrorated with black and suffused in places with rufous 

 or fuscous ; a double subbasal line from costa to submediau fold 



¥!§. 109.— Eiimichfis 2>^otea, ^j'. i. 



angled inwards in cell ; a double oblique irregularly-waved ante- 

 medial line ; claviform broad, defined by black and with a pale 

 bidentate mark beyond it and black streak from its lower extremity 

 to the postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform greenish or grey- 

 white usually defined by black and irrorated with black, the former 

 rather oblique elliptical, the latter broad and sometimes tinged with 

 rufous ; an indistinct irregular medial line ; postmedial line in- 

 distinctly double, bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved 

 below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish and often with some whitish before it and defined by 

 black on outer side at middle and in submedian interspace, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing greyish suffused with fuscous 

 especially on the veins and terminal area ; an indistinct postmedial 

 line and greyish subterminal line bent outwards at vein 2. Under- 

 side grey irrorated with brown, both wings with discoidal anuulus 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. Beitain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England (Doubledai/); 

 Peance, Sand Coll. ; Geemany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Hun- 

 GAEr, Zeller Coll. ; Switzeelai^d, Tyrol, Leech Coll. ; Spaiij, Leech 

 Coll. ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 53 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 312, pi. 171. f. 1. 



Pale greyish ochreous or greenish ; dorsal line pale yellowish, 

 sometimes edged with dark fuscous ; spiracular line brownish or 

 yellow ; head brownish. Food-plant, Oak. 4-6. 



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