340 NOCTUID^. 



2509. Eumiclitis rolioris. 



Noctua rohoris, Hllbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 847(1827); Boisd. IncL 

 Meth. p. 72 (1829); Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 292. f. 2; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 159, pi. 15. f. 4; Herr.-Schaff. Eiir. Schmett., Noct. f. 52 ; 

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



Hadenu cerris, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 121 (1840); Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. 

 Schmett., Noct. f. 153. 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; frons with black 

 bar ; tegiilge with strong medial black line ; patagia with some 

 black scales near upper edge ; tarsi banded with black ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated and suffused with fuscous, the dorsal crests tipped 

 Avith black. Fore wing olive-green mixed with rufous, the terminal 

 area often whitish, the veins with slight dark streaks; subbasal 

 line double, angled inwards in cell and ending at vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line double, the inner line indistinct, angled outwards 

 below costa, then obliquely excurved ; claviform broad and trun- 

 cate, defined by black except above, with bideutate pale mark 

 beyond it and black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform large, greyish, tinged with brown and 

 defined by black, their centres defined by fuscous, the former 

 elliptical ; postmedial line double at costa, then single, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, strongly incurved below 

 vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, usually defined by small dentate dark marks on inner 

 side, excurved below costa and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, 

 a black mark beyond it extending to termen ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules. Hind wing whitish largely suffused with 

 brown, especially on the veins and terminal area, in female nearly 

 uniformly suffused ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, 

 a black discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. cerris. Greyish, without the olive-green tinge. 



Hab. Fkance ; Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Atjsteia, 

 Tyrol ; Hungary, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Spain, Andalusia, 

 Catalonia ; Sardinia ; Sicily ; Istria ; Dalmatia ; Macedonia ; 

 Asia Minor, Taurus, Pontus. Eivp. 26-34 millim. 



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

 f . 20. 



Eeddish grey, with dorsal pale line and dark curved transverse 

 lines ; subdorsal line fuscous ; lateral line brown. Food-plant, 

 Querciis. 



*2510. Eumichtis contermina. (Plate CIV. fig. 12.) 



Dryobota contermina,, Grffis. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 308; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 182. 



Head and thorax brownish grey slightly mixed with brown ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish ; tegulae with strong black line 

 near tips ; patagia edged with blackish ; prothoracic crest with 

 blackish line near tips ; tarsi with blackish bands ; abdomen grey 

 suffused and irrorated with brown. Fore wing grey tinged and 



