CONISTRA. 455 



Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Aitsteia ; Hungaet, Leech Coll. ; 

 SwiTZEELAND ; 'N . Italx ; ALGERIA; RussiA, Livouia, Zeller Coll., 

 Sarepta ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Siberia, Altai. 

 E.vp. 28-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 66 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. tI. p. 14, pi. 2.34. f. 1. 



Pinkish brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines paler, indistinct ; sub- 

 spiracular line pale tinged with greenish; head brown with dark 

 markings. Food-plants : Elm, Oak, Saliv, &c. 5-6. 



2663. Conistra ardescens. (Plate CVI. fig. 17.) 

 Dasycannpa ardescens, Butl. A. M. N. H. (o) i\-. p. 364 (1879). 



Head and thorax bright purplish rufous to ochreous rufous or red- 

 hrown slightly mixed with grey ; antennse whitish at base ; abdomen 

 pale purplish or ochreous rufous slightly irrorated with fuscous. 

 Fore "wiug bright purplish or ochreous rufous or red-brown, the veins 

 with a few white scales ; subbasal line indistinctly double filled in 

 with whitish scales, slightly waved, from costa to sub median fold; 

 antemedial line rather indistinct, double filled in with greyish scales, 

 oblique, angled outwards below costa then waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform slightly defined by rufous, the former elliptical, the latter 

 narrow, constricted at middle, its lower part filled in with black; 

 a dark medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 incurved ; j)ostmedial line double filled in with greyish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, incurved at diseal 

 fold and below vein 4, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by small rufous 

 spots, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and escurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of slight dark points ; cilia usually with faint pale 

 waved line at base. Hind wing fuscous brown with a rufous tinge; 

 cilia rufous ; the underside greyish suffused with rufous especially 

 on costal area and irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot, 

 simious postmedial line and slight waved terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wiug much darker red-brown, the subterminal line 

 and some suffusion before it reddish ochreous ; orbicular and 

 reniform with pale centres ; hind wing darker. 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama (JPnjer), 7 c5' , 4 5 , type. Exp. 42 millim. 



2664. Conisfra ligula. 



Hoctua ligula, Esp. Schmett. ir. pi. 16G. f. 3 (1794) ; Cappel Tijd. v. Ent. 



xlii. p. 39. pi. 2. f. 6 ; Stand Cat. Lep. pal. p. 209. 

 NocUia siibnigra, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 234 (1809) ; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 162 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. vi. pi. 268. 

 Nocttia cruda, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 172 (1827). 

 Noctua polita, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 178 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vi. p. 124, pi. 81. f. 1. 

 Cerastis dolosa, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 301, pi. 28. f. 1 (nee Hubn.) 

 Cerastis brigensis, Boisd. Gen. et lud. Meth. p. 148 (1840) ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Sehinett., Noct. f. 459. 

 Basycampa staiidingeri, Grrasl. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1863, p. 318-9 (nee 



p. 314, pi. 8. ff. 4-5). 



