460 KOCTUID^. 



2669. Conistra dauljei. 



Orthosia. dauhci. Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 331, pi. 30. f. 5 (183S) ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 209. 

 Cerastis huxi, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Metli. p. 147 (1840); Herr.-SchafF. Eur. 



Scbmett., Noct. ff. 92-93 ; Mill. Icones, ii. pi. 52. ff. 5-8. 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with pale rufous ; frons blackish 

 at sides ; abdomen ochreous white irrorated with fuscous, the ventral 

 surface with slight blackish, sublateral spots on medial segments. 

 Fore wing whitish more or less stronglj- tinged with pale rufous and 

 sparsely irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by a slight 

 striga from costa with black jioint beyond it in cell ; antemedial line 

 very indistinctly double, interrupted, oblique, waved ; orbicular and 

 reniform sometimes faintlj^ defined by whitish, the former round, 

 the latter rarelj^ with some black in lower and upper outer side of 

 centre ; a more or less distinct dark brown medial line, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell; postmedial line with black point at 

 costa, then indistinct or almost obsolete, bent outwards below costa, 

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

 terminal line indistinct, pale, almost always defined on inner side 

 by small black spots, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a series of small black spots just before 

 termen. Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous brown ; traces 

 of a discoidal lunule, postmedial line and diffused subterminal band ; 

 the underside white, the costal area tinged with rufous, a large 

 black discoidal lunule and curved postmedial series of dark points 

 on the veins. 



Hah. S. France, Montpellier, Zeller and Leech Colls. Exp. 34 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. ] 90 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 119, pi. 32. f. 8. 



Dark green with broad lateral white stripes ; head yellow. 

 Food-plant, Buxus. 



2670. Conistra innlta. (Plate CVI. fig. 18.) 



Orthosia iimlta, Grote, 6th Eep. Peab. Ac. Sci. p. 30 (1874) ; id. Bull. 

 Buff. See. ]N'at. Sci. ii. p. 125, pi. 1. f. 9 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 221. 



J . Head and thorax bright rufous ; sides of frons blackish ; 

 antennae white at base ; pectus grey -black at sides ; tarsi fuscous 

 irrorated with white; abdomen brown, the lateral fringes, anal 

 tuft and ventral surface bright rufous. Fore wing pale red-brown 

 suffused with purplish grey and with slight dark irroration, the 

 costal edge bright rufous ; subbasal line dark purplish fuscous, curved, 

 from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line dark purplish fuscous, 

 obliquely curved ; claviforra absent ; orbicular and reniform very 

 large, defined by fine rufous lines, the former oblique elliptical, 

 sometimes confluent with the latter which is slightly constricted at 

 middle ; postmedial line dark purplish fuscous, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique, the veins beyond it with fine dark streaks ; 

 subterminal line rufous, angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved 

 below vein 2; a fine waved brown terminal line: cilia pale rufous 

 irrorated with brown at tips. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the 

 cilia pale rufous, dark brown at tips ; the underside pale tinged with 



