4oS NOCTTIID^, 



Noctua jmlverea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 169 (1827). 

 NoctiM ■imirodcs, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., jS^oct. f. 568 (1827). 

 Cerastis rubiffo, Embr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1871, p. 317. 

 BasycamiM unicolor, Tutt. Brit. Noct. iii. p. 7 (1892). 



Head and thorax yellow tinged with fulvous : palpi and frons at 

 sides blackish ; antennae brown ; tegulse with slight dark medial 

 line ; tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen golden brown, 

 the anal tuft yellow. Pore wing yellow more or less suffused with, 

 fulvous; a black point at base ; subbasal line represented by double 

 blaclv striaj from costa and cell, with black point beyond them in 

 cell ; antemedial line double, marked with small black spots, oblique, 

 waved, angled inwards on median nervure and vein 1 to black and 

 white points ; orbicular and reniform yellow very indistinctly 

 defined by rufous, the former round with black point in centre, 

 the latter narrow, constricted at middle, its lower part filled 

 in with black with white points belore and beyond it; a 

 waved rufous medial line with black points on it, excurved 

 from below costa to below cell ; postmedial line double, marked 

 Avith small black spots; bent outwards below costa, then dentate 

 and produced to black and white points on the veins, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line defined on inner side by a series of 

 black points except towards costa and by slight blackish suffusion 

 on outer, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with black 

 and irrorated with white except towards apex ; a terminal series of 

 small black spots ; cilia with a series of black lunules. Hind wing 

 uniform dark brown with a rufous tinge ; cilia pale rufous, some- 

 times with a brown line through them ; the underside pale rufous, 

 the inner half tinged with greyish, a dark discoidal lunule, curved 

 postmedial line and indistinct diffused subterminal band. 



xib. 1. modesta^ Bang-Haas, iued. Thorax and fore wing 

 suffused with dark red-brown leaving the basal area and annuli 

 of stigmata yellow. 



Ab. 2. comjjieta, Bang-Haas, ined. Thorax and fore wing 

 entirely suff'used Avith dark red-brown. 



Ab. 3. unicolor. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing pale 

 brick-red, the last without markings except some black points below 

 base of cell, in orbicular, on subterminal line and termen, and the 

 black and white spot at lower angle of cell ; hind wing reddish 

 ochreous suffused with dark brown. 



Hah. Beixain, Leech Coll. ; FiiAi^cE, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Leech Colls. : Austeia, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 HuNGAEY, D'Emraick Coll. ; Savitzeeland, Prey Coll. : Corsica ; 

 LxALY ; Aemenia ; Asia Minoe, Poutus. Exp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 65 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 6, pi. 233. f. 2. 



Purplish brown clothed Avith golden l3roAvn hairs ; dorsal, sub- 

 dorsal, and spiracular lines indistinctly paler surrounded by blackish 

 freckles; a dorsal series of blackish spots. Pood-plants : Taraxacum, 

 J.lumex, Apple, &c. 5-6, 



