448 



XOCTtJIDiE. 



2654. Conistra fragarise. 



BombyxjracjaricB. Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 86. f. 3 (1789), & Suppl. 3, p. 40 



Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 208. 

 Noctua domiduca. Borkb. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 113 (1792). 

 Noctua orboiia. Eossi, Maiit. Faun. Etruria, ii. p. 23 (1794) ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. if. 104, 604. 

 Cerastis serotina, Ocbs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 85 (1816); Err. Keue Beitr. 



pi. 435. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with grey and dark brown ; 

 antennge pale oehreous ; tegulte Avith bright rufous medial line ; 

 tibiae and tarsi red-brown ; abdomen yellow banded with black, the 

 Tentral surface rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing 

 rufous more or less strongly suffused with grey and slightly irrorated 

 with black, the veins of terminal half pale ; antemedial line pale, 

 very oblique from costa to above inner margin ; orbicular and reni- 

 form large with grey annuli, the former rather oblique elliptical, 

 the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; an indistinct curved 



medial rufous shade ; postmedial line indistinct, grey, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and excurved at discal fold, then 

 incurved ; subterminal line grey-white defined by brown on inner 

 side and almost straight ; a terminal series of slight blackish points; 

 cilia with a fine waved white line through them. Hind wing 

 yellow almost wholly suff'used with fuscous except on inner area 

 and termen, the terminal area darker with narrow yellow teiminal 

 baud with irregularly waved inner edge ; cilia yellow ; underside 

 yellow, the costal and terminal area tioged with rufous, a large 

 black discoidal lunule showing through to upperside and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. Gbemaxt, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austkia, Leech 

 Coll. ; HuKGAKT ; Savitzeeland ; Italy ; Rumelia ; S.E. Russia ; 

 SiBEKiA ; Amijeiand ; Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, Fryer, Manley), 

 4 (^ , 2 $ . Exp. 54-60 millim. 



Larva. Kirbj, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 190; Hffin. Eaup. p. 119, 

 pi. 32. f. 6. 



Orange with brown head and black thoracic shield. Food-plants: 

 Grasses, often cannibal. 5-7. 



