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NOCTUIDiK. 



2541. Antitype duMa. 



PoUa dwUa, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 286, pi. 26. f. 4 (1836) ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 17^. 

 Folia ccerulescens, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 127 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iv. 



p. 95. pi. 58. f. 5 ; Freyer, Neue Beitr. v. pi. 411. f. 4 ; Herr.-Schiiff. 



Eur. Schraett., Noct. ff. 38, 39, 402 ; Mill. Icones, i. p. 335, pi. 40, ff. 5-7. 

 Folia ti/phonia, Mill. Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyons, 1882. p. 178, pi. 4. ff. 10-11. 

 Folia roncloxvi, Stertz, Iris, xv. p. 180, pL vi. f. 25 (1902). 



c5' . Head and thorax white slightlj' irrorated with fuscous : 

 palpi blackish at sides except 3rd joint ; fore tarsi banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen white slight!}' tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous Avhite thickly irrorated with brown, the basal costal area 

 and medial area irrorated with bluish fuscous and rather darker ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae from costa ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, defined by white on inner side, oblique, waved, 

 with two blackish points at costa ; elaviform almost obsolete with 

 whitish mark beyond its extremity ; orbicular and reniform with 

 ill-defined whitish annuli, the former round, the latter irregular 

 with whitish points on its outer edge and slightly angled inwards 

 on median nervure ; traces of a waved medial line ; postmedial 

 line with dark point with white spot beyond it at costa, bent out- 

 wai'ds below costa, then dentate and produced to white points on 

 the veins, incurved below vein 4, some white points bej^ond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of very indistinct 

 pale lunules Avith slight dentate dark marks on their inner sides, 

 angled outwards on vein 7 ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 chequered whitish and fuscous. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 medial part of terminal area suffused with fuscous ; an indistinct 

 oblique minutely waved postmedial line ; the underside more 

 uniform white, with small discoidal spot. 



$ . Much darker and greyer ; hind wing fuscous, the postmedial 

 line faintlj^ defined by whitish on outer side. 



Ab. 1. typlionia. Fore wing leaden-grey. 



Ab. 2. rondoui. Fore wing steel-blue. — -Pyrenees. 



ffah. S. Frai^ce, Ardeche, Zeller and Frey Colls., Pyrenees ;, 

 Spain, 1 5 ; Coksica, Leech Coll. ; Italy, Leech Coll. Kvp. 40- 

 44 millim. 



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



Stout, pinkish with faint darker mottling and yellow lateral 

 stripe. Food-plants : Cistus, Box, Henbane, &c. 12-1. 



2542. Antitype apora. (Plate CIV. fig. 29.) 

 Folia apora. Stand. Iris, s. p. 280 (1897) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. 



S . Head and thorax white slightly mixed with fuscous ; sides 

 of palpi and frons with dark patches ; tarsi with fuscous bands ; 

 abdomen white dorsally suffused with yellow-brown. Fore wing 

 greyish white slightly irrorated with fuscous, the medial area 

 suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 



