456 jyocTuiDJs. 



Cerastis suhsjKultcca, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 119 (1871). 

 OrrhocUa conspadicea, Fuchs, Stett. ent. Zeit. slii. p. 130 (1901). 

 Orrhodia plabrokles, Fuchs, Stett. ent. Zeit. xlii. p. 131 (1901). 



Head aud thorax deep rufous ; tibise with the spurs ringed black 

 and white ; abdomen grey-brown tinged with deep rufous towards 

 extremity and on ventral surface. -Fore wing deep purplish red- 

 brown striated with grey ; subbasal line indistinctly double filled in 

 with grey, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 double filled in Avith grey, waved, oblique ; orbicular and reniform 

 irroratedwith grej'and defined by rufous, the former oblique elliptical, 

 the latter constricted at middle, its lower part filled in with fuscous; 

 an indistinct rufous medial line oblique from costa to lower angle 

 of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, 

 slightly bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, incurved 

 at discal fold and below vein 4, some grej' points beyond it on 

 costa ; terminal area suffused with grey, the subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a series of red-brown poiiits. Hind wing ochreous grey 

 nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous brown ; cilia pale ochreous 

 at base ; the underside greyish suffused and irrorated with brown, 

 the costal area suffused with rufous, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous 

 postmedial line, and faint diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. snbspadicea. Fore wing rufous or brown, the grey 

 markings slight. 



Ab. 2. polita. Head, thorax, and fore wing greyish fuscous, the 

 last with the markings slight ; abdomen and hind wing paler 

 fuscous. 



Ab. 3. turiur, Bang-Haas, ined. Similar, but fore wing with the 

 grey markings distinct and the veins streaked with grey. 



Rab. Britain {Bouhleday), Leech Coll ; Feance, Sand Coll. ; 

 Geemant, Zeller, Prey, and Leech Colls. ; Ausieia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Htjngaet, Leech Coll. : Switzeeland ; Spain ; ? SiciLr ; Eitssia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia; Asia Minoe, Pontus; "W. Turkestan, 

 Ala Tau ; E. Siberia, IJssuri. Exp. 30-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 6.5 ; Barrett. Lep. Brit. vi. p. 17, pi. 234, f. 2. 



Yellowish brown ; dorsal line pale, indistinct ; spiracular line 

 pale pinkish ochreous, dark-edged above ; head reddish brown. 

 Pood-plants : Lonicera, Hawthorn, &c. 5-6. 



2665. Conistra albipuncta. (Plate CVII. fig. 30.) 



Cerastis alb^mncta, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 514, pi. li. f. 10. 



c? . Head and thorax bright rufous ; sides of frons tinged with 

 fuscous ; abdomen rufous irrorated with fuscous. Pore wing bright 

 rufous with slight dark irroration ; traces of a double waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; a very indistinct 

 double, minutely waved antemedial line and single medial line ; 

 orbicular absent ; reniform hardly traceable, very narrow, with 

 prominent white spot defined by black scales at lower angle of cell; 

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

 then minutely Avaved, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sub- 



