360 



NOCTDIDJi: 



2533. Antitype polymita. 



Isoci'Ua iwlyriuta, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 170.. 



f. 4; Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. pi. 261 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 417, pi. 99: 



f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. 

 Noctua Helens, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 20 (1827). 



S . Head and thorax olive-green mixed with whitish ; tegulte- 

 with slight dark medial line ; patagia edged with white in front and 

 ahove ; crests on pro- and metathorax tipped with white ; tibiae and 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey snffused with olive-green. 

 Pore wing olive-green irrorated with white ; a small white-tipped 

 tuft of scales at base ; subbasal line double filled in with white,, 

 angled inwards in cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line defined by white on inner side, oblique, waved, angled outwards 

 below costa and above inner margin ; claviform defined by black 

 below and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform with incomplete- 



Eig. 119. — Aniitype 'polymita, S ■ 



white annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with 

 some white in centre and irregular outline ; a dentate medial line- 

 angled outward on median nervure, then oblique ; postmedial line 

 defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to black points on the veins, incurved below 

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

 dentate, white defined by small dentate black marks on inner side, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and incurved 

 in submedian interspace ; a terminal series of small black lunules ;. 

 cilia chequered yellowish white and blackish. Hind wing white ; 

 the veins tinged with fuscous ; a diffused brownish subterminal 

 band, somewhat dentate at middle ; a waved black terminal line ; 

 cilia tinged with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with 

 the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule, a 

 slight postmedial line from costa to vein 6. 



$ . Hind wing wholly tinged with brown, the underside irrorated 

 with brown, a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Fkance, Leech Coll. ; Geemant, Zeller Coll. ; Austeia, Prey 

 Coll. ; Hungary, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Sicily ; Dalmatia, Leech 

 Coll.; Scandinavia, Norway, Prey Coll.; Balkan States; S.W. 

 RtrssiA. Ex'j). 40-46 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eutt. & Moths Eur. p. 223. 



Dull rose-colour; dorsal aud subdorsal lines white; a diffused 



