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NOCTTJID^. 



tipped with ochreous ; tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen pale 

 rufous, whitish at base. Fore wing rufous suffused with greyish 

 purple ; subbasal line black defined by pale rufous on outer side, 

 angled outwards on subcostal and median nervures and with slight 

 oblique black streak beyond it across cell; a black-brown fascia above 

 inner margin before the antemedial line ; a creamy-white fascia on 

 inner margin not quite reaching base ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with greyish, angled outwards below costa and 



Fig. 121. — Hhizofypc flammca, (^ . }. 



strongly above inner margin, then strongly retracted ; claviform 

 very large, deep brown defined b}^ black ; orbicular purplish grey 

 with slight whitish annulus defined by black, rather oblique elliptical; 

 reniform creamy white defined by black, its centre defined by 

 brown, strongly angled inwards on median nervure and with its 

 upper extremity produced ; an indistinct medial line angled ont- 

 Avards on subcostal nervure and on vein 2, in submedian fold and 

 on vein 1 almost to postmedial line, the area beyond it before 

 postmedial line red-brown except at costa ; postmedial line slightly 

 defined by whitish on outer side, double towards costa, bent out- 

 wards below costa, oblique to vein 5 where it is angled outwards, 

 then incurved and slightly sinuous, with slight black and white 

 points beyond it on veins 5 to 1, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; subterminal line whitish slightly defined by rufous suffusion 

 on inner side and by brown on outer, somewhat angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia red-brown, with a fine ochreous line at base. Hind 

 wing ochreous-white suffused with red-brown, the basal and costal 

 areas paler, the veins brown ; a fine waved dark terminal line ; 

 cilia rufous, with a fine pale line at base ; the underside ochreous- 

 white, the costal area tinged with purplish pink and slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and rather diffused 

 curved postmedial line with minute dark streaks at the veins. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Feance, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Gekmany ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; Spain, 

 Leech Coll, ; Dalmatia. Kvp. 44-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 128 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 47, pi. 190. f. 1. 



Greenish brown, with numerous waved dark brown or blackish 

 lines ; a dorsal series of dark brown diamond-shaped marks ; spots 

 whitish; head and thoracic shield dark brown. Food-plants: 

 Ranunculus, Ligustrum, Ash, &c. 12-5, 



