470 NOCTTJIDiE. 



or dark brown ; hair on pectus dark brown : abdomen ochreons 

 with dark bands or almost wholly suffused with dark brown. Fore 

 wing varying from pale grey-brown to bright rufous or dark purple- 

 brown suffused with grey and irrorated with brown, the veins 

 whitish ; subbasal line very indistinct, double, from costa to sub- 

 median fold with black point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line 

 double, rufous filled in with pale colour or greyish, slightly angled 

 outwards below costa aud inwards in cell, then obliquely excurved ; 

 orbicular and reniform moderate with dark brown centres and pale 

 annuli slightly defined by brown ; a diffused rufous medial line 



Fig. 161. — Omiohaloscelis liinosa, (^ . \. 



oblique from costa to median nervure, then slightly waved ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with pale colour or greyish, bent out- 

 wards below costa aud incurved below vein 4 ; postmedial area 

 sometimes with the interspaces suffused with dark brown ; sub- 

 terminal line very indistinct, pale, defined on inner side by two 

 dentate black spots below costa, then by a series of small spots or 

 points, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a series of slight points just before termen ; cilia intersected with 

 dark brown. Hind wing white more or less irrorated and suffused 

 with fuscous brown, a blackish discoidal lunule and diffused maculate 

 subterminal band, sometimes mostly suffused with fuscous ; the 

 underside white irrorated with brown, a large discoidal spot, in- 

 distinct curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Eah. Britain {Barrett^, Leech Coll ; Peance, Sand and Prey 

 Colls. ; Spain. Castile, Aragon ; Algeria. Exp. 31-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 348, pi. 228. f. 2. 



Yellow-broM-n or green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines pale or 

 whitish ; spiracular line whitish, brown-edged above ; tubercles 

 large, black. Food-plants, Grasses. 10-4. 



Genus AMATHES. 



Type. 



Amathes, Hlibn. Verz. p. 222 (1827) litura. 



Agrochola, Hlibn. Verz. p. 229 (1827) jnsiacina. 



Faisina, Steph. 111. Brit. Eiit., Haust. ii. p. Ill (1829) circellaris. 



Anchoscelis, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. viii. p. 485 (1839) nitida. 



Bynchorista, Led. Noct. Eur. p. 143 (1857) iners. 



&rnidcBa, Snell. Vlind. Ned. p. 289 (1872) ruticilla. 



Heteromorfha, Failla-Ted. Nat. Sicil. x. p. 30 (1890), nee Kirby, 



Col. 1 825 ragus(B. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect, fringed with long hair 

 in front, the 3rd joint .short; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded; antennae of 

 male typically ciliated ; head and thorax clothed with hair only ; the tegulae 

 produced to a dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathorax without distinct crests ; 



