coxisxEA. 457 



terminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side b}' faint 

 dark ])oints, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved belovr 

 vein 3 ; a tez'noinal series of slight dark points. Hind wing fuscous 

 brown, the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal striga, sinuous postmedial line and fine 

 waved terminal line. 



Hah. Japa^', Yokohama {Pryer), 1 S type. Exp. 44 millim. 



2666. Conistra torrida. 



Cerastis torrida. Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1857, p. 81 ; Herr.-Scliaff. Xeiie 

 Schmett. ff. 1] 9-120; Rebel, Ann. Hofmus. Wien, xviii. ^. 228. pi. iii. 

 f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 210. 



2 . Head and thorax dark purplish red-brown slightly mixed 

 with ochreous ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; abdomen pale, 

 suffused and irrorated with red-brown, the ventral surface paler 

 with dark sublateral stripes. Fore wing purplish red-brown, 

 with slight white irroration on costal area and vein 1 ; subbasal 

 line represented by a slight oblique striga from costa and patch 

 of black and white scales below ceil ; antemedial line indistinctly 

 double, oblique, angled outwards below costa, then excurved in 

 ixiterspaces and angled inwards on the veins to black and white 

 points ; orbicular defined by black except above, oblique oblong ; 

 reniform defined by black on inner side and above, its lower part 

 tinged Avith fuscous with some white on it ; an indistinct irregular 

 medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line rather indistinctly double, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa : 

 subterminal line represented by a series of slight ochreous and black 

 somewhat dentate marks, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle, incurved in submedian interspace and defined 

 by fuscous on inner side ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 with series of slight blackish lunules. Hind wing pale suffused and 

 irrorated with dark brown, the termen slightly paler ; a fine dark 

 terminal line ; cilia pale purplish ; the underside whitish slightly 

 tinged with purple and strongly irrorated with brown, a blackish 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hab. S.E. Feaxce ; Switzeelaxd, Yalais ; C. Italy, Aquila ; 

 Sicily, Frey Coll. ; Caexiola ; Bulgakia. Exp. 36 millim. 



Larva. Wullsch. :\ritth. Schweiz. Ent. Ges. x. p. 289 (1900). 



Brownish red, the ventral surface yellowish ; the lines yellowish 

 white. Food-plants : Primus spinosa and Cornv.s mus. 4. 



2667. Conistra riibiginea. 



Noctua rvMqinea, ScbifF. Wien. Yerz. p. 86 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 142 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., jS'od;. f. 183; Dup. Lep. Fr. Tii. 



p. 137, pi. 109. f. 6 ; Err. jVeiie Beitr. i. pi. 45 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 161 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p: 210. 

 Jsoctua tigenna, Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 123. f. 4 (1788). 



