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incurved below vein 4 ; some white points beyond it on eosta ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of orange spots with slight 

 dentate fuscous marks befoi-e them and short streaks beyond them ; 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia chequered 

 yellowish white and fuscous. Hind wing white slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous, the veins brownish ; a slight medial line, obsolete 

 towards eosta and incurved below vein 4 ; a diffused subterminal 

 band ; a fine dark terminal line and line through the cilia ; in female 

 more uniformly suffused with fuscous ; the underside whiter, a slight 

 black streak in base of cell, a discoidal spot, the postmedial line more 

 distinct and slightly waved at middle. 



Ab. 1. mueida. Paler ; fore wing with hardly a trace of the 

 orange markings. 



Bab. Feance, Sand Coll. ; Switzerland, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; 

 AtrsTKiA ; HtTNGAKy ; Italy, Capri {E. S. Browne) ; Sicily ; 

 Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Greece, Leech Coll. ; Balkan States ; 

 Ehodes ; Asia Mince, Pontus ; Sykia. Exp. 48-52 miliim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Ear. p. 224. 



Green, with dark dorsal and yellow lateral lines ; head brownish. 

 Food-plants : Asplenium riita-muraria, flowers of Silene nutans, and 

 Hawkweed. 5-6. 



2537. Antitype argillaceago. 



Noctua argillaceago, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noet. ff. 682-3 (1827) ; Mill. 



Icones, i. p. 297, pi. 35. ff. 6-8. 

 Folia venusta, Boisd. Incl. Meth. p. 127 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 



p. 234, pi. 26. f. 8 ; Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schmett., IVoct. ff. 58, 59 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. 



S • Head and thorax white suffused with orange- yellow ; palpi 

 with some black hair at sides ; frons with black spots at sides ; 

 thorax sparsely irrorated with black ; tarsi with fuscous bands ; 

 abdomen yellow irrorated with fuscous on dorsum. Fore wing 

 yellow irrorated with black, the ante- and postmedial areas tinged 

 Avith fulvous, the medial area more or less suffused with black ; 

 subbasal line represented by two dark striie from eosta ; ante- 

 medial line rather indistinct, double, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 almost obsolete with slight yellowish mark beyond its extremity ; 

 orbicular and reniform with indistinctly defined yellow annuli, the 

 former rather elliptical, the latter irregular with yellow points on 

 its outer edge and slightly angled inwards on median nervuro ; 

 traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial line double at eosta, 

 hent outwards below eosta, then dentate and produced to black and 

 white points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some pale points 

 beyond it on eosta ; subterminal line indistinct, pale defined by 

 faint dentate fuscous marks on inner side, angled outwards at 

 veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, the area beyond it slightly browner ; cilia 

 chequered yellow and brownish. Hind wing white, sometimes 

 with slight brownish subterminal spots towards tornus. 



5 . Hind wing suffused with fuscous, the cilia yellowish white; 

 the underside white, with diffused fuscous postmedial line and 

 fuscous suffusion on inner area. 



