CONISTKA. 451 



U-shaped, open above and with black hmule in lower part, the latter 

 filled in with black brol^en up into spots by the white veins except 

 upper part of inner portion ; medial shade indistinct, brown, oblique 

 from costa to lower angle of cell : postmedial line very indistinct, 

 double, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved; subterminal line indistinct, grey with red-brown patch 

 before it at costa, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a series of small blackish points just before termen ; 

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

 wing grey slightly tinged with pink and sutfased with brown ; cilia 

 whitish tinged with rufous ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, the costal area suffused with rufous, a large blackish 

 discoidal spot and more or less developed curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. immactdata . Fore wing without the black marks in the 

 stigmata. 



Hah. Prance, Sand Coll. ; Gbrmaxt, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 AiTSTKiA, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Hxjn&art, Leech Coll. ; Switzer- 

 land, Frey and Leech Colls. : Spain, Aragon, ? Andalusia ; jN". Italy ; 

 ? Sicily ; S. Sweden ; S.E. Eussia. Exp. 34-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 189 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 119. 



Dark cinnamon-brown, whitish below ; dorsal and subdorsal lines 

 indistinct, pale ; oblique black stripes forming angles on dorsum of 

 somites ; thoracic shield black with two white lines. Food-plants : 

 low herbs and Primus padus. 



2658. Conistra acutula. (Plate CVI. fig. 15.) 



OrrJiodia acutula, Staucl. Iris, iv. p. 302 (1891); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 209. 

 Orrhodia scoriea, Staucl. Iris, x. p. 288, pi. 9. f. 17 (1897). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with red-brown and fuscous ; 

 palpi more rufous ; sides of frons blackish ; antennae white at base ; 

 tibial spurs ringed black and white ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 brown and tinged with rufous towards extremity, the ventral surface 

 rufous with diffused fuscous bands. Fore wing grey thickly iiTorated 

 and striated with fuscous, the costal half tinged with rufous to sub- 

 terminal line, the veins streaked with white ; subbasal line represented 

 by faint dark strise from costa and cell with slight point beyond 

 them in cell ; antemedial line double, dark, oblique, minutely 

 waved, excurved below cell ; orbicular and reniform with fine white 

 annuli slightly defined by rufous, the former oblique elliptical, the 

 latter constricted at middle and with its lower part filled in with 

 dark brown ; a diffused dark slightly sinuous medial line, oblique 

 from costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then minuteh' 

 waved, oblique from vein 4 to submedian fold, then erect ; a 

 diffused grej^ subterminal band, a triangular brown patch before it 

 at costa with slight white points on costa ; the subterminal line 

 defined by a series of slight dark points on inner side and slightly 

 by brown on outer ; a slight waved line just before termen ; cilia 



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