454 



XOCTUID^. 



Hah. S. France ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; 

 Hungary, Prey and Leech Colls. ; Switzerland ; Italy ; Macedonia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



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



Dark brown with very line pale dorsal and subdorsal lines ; head 

 black. Pood-plants, various low herbs. 



2662. Conistra vaccinii. 



NocUia vaccinii, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 320 (1761) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. ]p. 92, 



pi. 161. ff. 1-6; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 177; Dup. Lep. Er. vi. 



pi. 79. f. 1 ; Err. Neue Beitr. i. pi. 46 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. 



p. 161 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 209. 

 Noctua sjMcUcea, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 86 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



JN'oct. f. 179 (1827) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 162 ; Cappel Tijds. 



V. Ent. slii. p. 39, pi. 2. f. 5. 

 Orrhodico mixta, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 118 (1871). 

 Orrhoclia sebdoue7isis. Aust. Le Nat. 1880, p. 221. 

 Orrhodia signata, Klem. Spraw. Kom. Eizyogr. xxsiii. p. 141 (1898). 



Head and thorax bright chestnut ; abdomen pale rufous. Pore 

 wing bright chestnut ; subbasal line formed of white scales, slight, 

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

 double, with some white scales on it, oblique, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, with slight pale annuli defined by deeper rufous, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the latter somewhat constricted at middle 

 and with its lower part filled in with fuscous ; a slight rufous 

 "medial liiie, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; 

 postmedial line indistinct, double, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved and with slight white points on the veins, incurved 

 at discal fold and below vein 4, some minute whitish points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner 

 side by a series of small rufous spots, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the veins beyond it with slight dark 

 streaks ; a slight waved terminal rufous line ; cilia rufous with a 

 slight brown line through them. Hind wing pale rufous irrorated 

 and suffused with fuscous brown, an indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line and diffused subterminal band ; cilia grey tinged with pale 

 rufous ; the underside pale irrorated with brown, the costal area 

 suffused with rufous, a slight dark discoidal lunule, sinuous post- 

 medial line and slight subterminal shade except towards apex. 



Ab. 1. sebdouensis. Pore wing with the lines hardly traceable, 

 subterminal and terminal series of black points. — Algeria. 



Ab. 2. signata. Pore wing with the stigmata and subterminal 

 spots black. 



Ab. 3. spadicea. Pore Aving paler rufous, the lines distinct, pale 

 defined by red-brown or black. 



Ab. 4. mixta. Pore wing irrorated with grey-white, the veins 

 streaked with grey-white, some pale suffusion before subterminal 

 line. 



Hah. Britain, Porres, Salvage Coll., England (Douhledaj/), Leech 

 Coll. ; Prance, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; Germany, 



