450 NOCTTJIDJE. 



2656. Coriistra gallica. 



Ccrastis gallica, Led. IS'oct. Eur. p. 227 (1857); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 209. 

 Cerastis silene, var., Herr.-Schaif. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 571 (nee Schiff.). 



Head and thorax bright rufous mixed with grej- ; sides of palpi 

 and frons fuscous ; abdomen grey suffused with pale rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the ventral surface with slight sub- 

 lateral black spots on three terminal segments. Fore wing bright 

 purplish rufous suffused with grey especially on basal area and costal 

 urea to postmedial line, and with slight dark irroration, the veins with 

 slight white streaks ; subbasal line represented by slight strise from 

 costa and cell with black point beyond them in cell ; antemedial 

 line indistinctly double, oblique, waved, angled outwards below 

 costa ; orbicular and reniform with grey centres and grey annuli 

 slightly defined by brown, the former small, round, with slight black 

 points on inner or lower parts of centre, the latter narrow with some 

 black in outer and lower part of centre broken up into spots by the 

 white veins ; a red-brown medial shade, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line double, rufous filled in with grey, bent 

 outwards below costa then minutely waved, escurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the area beyond it rather deeper rufous ; subterminal line 

 grey defined on inner side by slight brown spots, somewhat angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a series of slight black 

 points defined on inner side by grey luuules just before termen : 

 cilia rufous with fine waved white lines at base and middle. Hind 

 wing grey suffused with brown ; cilia whitish ; the underside grey- 

 white irrorated with brown, the costal area tinged Avith rufous, a 

 large blackish discoidal lunule, indistinct curved postmedial line and 

 waved dark terminal line. 



Hah. Centeal Fkakce, Frey and D'Emmick Colls., Pyrenees. 

 Exp. 34 millim, 



2657. Conistra silene. 



Hoctua silene, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 85 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 141 

 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. Schiiiett., Noct. f. 175; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 102, 

 pi. 79. f. 6. 



Bombyx vau-'punctcttum, Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 385, pi. 76. f. 4 (1786) ; Stand. 

 Oat. Lep. pal. p. 209. 



Noctua C-nigrmn, Yill. Linn. Ent. pi. 5. f. 1.3 (1789), nee Linn. 



Orrhodia immaculata, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 118 (1S71). 



Head and thorax rufous more or less strongly tinged with grey 

 and irrorated with fuscous ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; 

 abdomen pale rufous irrorated Avith fuscous, the base greyish, sub- 

 lateral black spots on three medial segments. Fore wing rufous 

 suffused with grey and with slight dark irroration, the veins with 

 fine Avhitish streaks ; subbasal line represented by a slight striga 

 from costa with a small black spot beyond it in cell; antemedial 

 line almost obsolete except towards costa, double, waved, oblique ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fine whitisli annuli, the former 



