ANTITYPE. 367 



vein 1 ; antemedial line double, the inner line indistinct, obliqne, 

 waved, angled inwards on vein 1 : claviform obsolete ; orbicular 

 and reniform white incompletely defined by brown, large and some- 

 what quadrate ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line 

 fuscous, indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and 

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

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

 defined by fuscous suftusion on inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3, 2, and bent outwards to 

 tornus ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia chequered whitish 

 and pale fuscous. Hind wing pure white. 



5 . Hind wing tinged with grey, the terminal area darker. 



Hah. SrKiA, Beyrout ; Palestine, 1 S . Exp. 38 millim. 



2543. Antitype caiiescens. 



Noctica canescens, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 422, pi. 99. f. 3 (182(3); Boisd. Ann. 



Soc. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. 113, pi. 6. f. 3 ; Fit. NeueBeitr. vi. pi. 51'). 



f. 3 ; Herr.-Sehaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 466 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi 9S 



ff. 5-8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 180. 

 Noctua pumicosa, Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 787-8 (1834) ; Dup. Lep 



Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 282, pi. 26. f, 2. 

 Folia asfliodeli, Rmbr. Ann. Soc. Eut. Fr. i. p. 281, pi. 9. f. 4 (1832); 



Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 264, pi. 24, fF. 5-6 ; Greyer, Eur. Schmett,, 



Noct. ff. 844-6; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 488-90. 



S . Head and thorax white thickly irrorated with fuscous, sides 

 of palpi and frons blackish, a blackish bar above frons ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen white irrorated with fuscous except 

 at base. Fore wing white sometimes tinged with oehreous, thickly 

 irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line oblique, waved, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform whitish, ill-defined, 

 with traces of yellowish spots on their edges, the former rounded, 

 the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct 

 diffused waved medial line ; postmedial line bent outwards belo\A- 

 costa, then dentate, very oblique below vein 4 and approximated to 

 antemedial line at inner margin, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of slight whitish 

 spots defined on inner side by dentate fuscous marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules ; cilia pale with a fuscous line through them. 

 Hind wing white, the veins sometimes tinged with fuscous at 

 extremitj\ 



5 . Hind wing suffused with fuscous leaving the basal area 

 whitish . 



Ab. 1. asphodeli. Darker and more thickly irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. Eeance, Sand Coll. ; Spain ; Coesica, Leech Coll. ; Italy : 

 Dalmatia, Leech Coll.; Malta (Matlieiv)\ Rhodes; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, 1 5 , Taurus ; Syria. Exp. 38-4(3 millim. 



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



Pale green or reddish. Food-plants : Asphodel, flowers of 

 Narcissus, &c. 5-6. 



