472 NOCTUIDiE. 



Orthosia illids, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 303, pi. 28. ff. 2a-6 (1836). 

 Noctiia saportce, Frr. Keue Beitr. iv. pi. 292. f. 4 (1842). 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; 

 antennae blackish, ^\hitish at base ; tegiilte with slight medial dark 

 line ; tibia3 with some red hair ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown dorsally irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown 

 with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved, the inner 

 line indistinct, with blaclv and white points before it on the veins ; 

 orbicular and reuiform with pale annuli slightly defined by black,, 

 the former rounded, the latter constricted at middle, its lower part 

 filled in with blackish ; a rather diffused medial line angled out- 

 wards to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line double, bent outwards. 



Fig. 162. — AmatJies ruticilla, (^ . \. 



below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to black and white- 

 points on the veins, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line pale 

 defined on inner side by a broAvnish bar from costa, then by a series 

 of black points on the veins, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 inwards in submedian fold ; a terminal series of black points 

 connected by a slight waved line ; cilia brown with slight pale line- 

 at base. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous grey with a 

 fuscous line through them ; the underside grey-white irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal lunulc, strong curved postmedial line and 

 waved terminal line. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing with the ground-colour 

 chestnut-red. 



Hah. Prance, Sand Coll. ; BELertrM ; Holland ; CtEkmany, Zeller,. 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Atjsteia, Zeller Coll. ; Hungary ; Switzer- 

 land ; Spain ; Corsica ; Italy ; Dalmatia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ;. 

 Syria. Exp. 28-34 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 181 ; HfFm. Eaup. p. 116. 



Brown with dark zigzag markings ; head black. Food-plant, Oak,, 

 first attacking the buds. 



Sect. II. — Antenna! of male minutely serrate with fasciculate cilia. 



A. {Heteromorfha). Wings of female reduced ; bind wing with the apex 

 produced and acute, the termen excised below it. 



*'2687. Amathes ragussB. 



Heteromor'pha ragusa, Failla-Ted. Nat. Sicil. x. p. SO, pi. 1. ff. G-7 (1890) ;, 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207. 



