362 KOOTTJIDiE. 



side, rather oblique, waved ; claviform represented by a slight 

 diffused fuscous mark ; orbicular and reniform large with whitish 

 aunuli defined by fuscous, the former round with more or less orange 

 at sides, the latter rather irregular with more or less orange at sides 

 and below ; traces of a diffused waved medial line ; postmedial line 

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

 dentate, incurved between veins 4 and 1 ; some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subtermiual line represented by a series of somewhat 

 dentate blackish marks on rather elongate orange spots, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series 

 of slight black lunules ; cilia yellowish white with series of dark 

 lunules. Hind wing white irrorated with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 curved slightly waved postmedial line and diffused subterminal band ; 

 a fine waved black terminal line ; in female suffused with fuscous 

 leaving some whitish beyond the postmedial line and on termen ; 

 the underside paler and tinged with yellowish, a small black dis- 

 <:;oidal lunule. 



Ab. 1. meridionalis. Much darker. — Spain, Corsica. 



Ab. 2. calvescens. Much paler grey-white with hardly a trace 

 of the yellow markings. — S. France ; Italy ; Sicily. 



Hah. Eeitaijv, Leech Coll. ; Prance, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

 (jermant, Zeller Coll. ; Austria ; Hxjngary, Leech Coll. ; Switzer- 

 land, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Spain, Castile, Andalusia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Corsica, Leech Coll. ; Italy ; Sicily ; S. Sweden ; Asia Minor, 

 Smyrna {Lederer), 2 S , I $ , Ea^j). 42-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. Lep. p. 54 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 297, pi. 169. 



Pale green ; dorsal line darker ; spiracular line white, some- 

 times black-edged above. Food-plants : Eirch, llumex, Stellaria, 

 ■&C. 5-7. 



2536. Antitype rufocincta. 



Jsoctua rufocincta, Hiibn. Eur. Schinett., Noct, ff. 747-8 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 259, pi. 24. f. 3 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



ff. 37, 483 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 80. ff. 3-5; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. 

 Noctuafai'inbsa, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. pi. 609. f. 3 (1852). 

 Folia mueida, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 41 (1852). 



Head and thorax white more or less strongly mixed with fuscous, 

 the metathorax sometimes with some yellowish hair ; tibiae fuscous 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white irrorated with fuscous. Fore 

 wing bluish white, more or less thickly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 medial area slightly darker ; subbasal line double, waved, filled in 

 with white, from costa to submedian fold where there is an orange 

 streak below it ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, 

 filled in with white, oblique, waved, angled inwards on the veins ; 

 <;laviform short, slightly defined hy blackish, some orange beyond it 

 before the postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 a nuuli defined by fuscous and some orange at sides, the former rather 

 <juadrate and open above and below, the latter open above and below ; 

 a waved medial line ; postmedial line bent outwards below costa, 

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



