474 NOCTTJID^. 



costa and cell with a black point beyond them in cell ; antemedial 

 line very indistinct, double, minutely waved, interrupted below 

 costa ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform with slight 

 ochreous annuli, their centres tinged with brown, the former very 

 small, oblique elliptical, the latter narrow and with its lower part 

 filled in with black ; medial line very indistinct, oblique from costa 

 to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line very 

 indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line repre- 

 sented by a brownish bar from costa, then very indistinct, pale 

 with faint dark points on its inner edge ; a series of faint dark 

 points just before termen ; cilia pale rufous with fine ochreous line 

 at base. Hind Aving ochreous tinged with brown, the veins rather 

 darker ; a slight discoidal lunule, traces of a postmedial line and 

 diffused subterminal band ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 broAvn, a slight discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Pontus, Amasia in Coll. Piingeler, Taurus. 

 Ex]). 38 millim. 



2689. Amathes humilis. 



Noctua humilis, SchiiF. Wien. Verz. p. 76 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 146 

 (1787); Hilbii. Eur. Schmett, JVoct. f. 170 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 274, 

 pi. 117. f. 4; Staad. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206. 



Head and thorax brownish grey irrorated with fuscous ; sides of 

 palpi and frons blackish mixed with rufous. Abdomen grey 

 irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown irrorated with 

 black, the veins pale, the inner margin rufous ; subbasal line 

 indistinctly double, from costa to submediau fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double, oblique, slightly sinuous ; orbicular and reni- 

 form large, defined by whitish, the former oblique elliptical ; a 

 rather diffused fuscous medial line incurved below the cell ; post- 

 medial line double filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa 

 and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line formed of grey striae 

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

 of small fuscous spots ; a fine waved black terminal line with series 

 of black points in the interspaces just before termen ; cilia tinged 

 with fuscous with fine grey line at base. Hind wing pale grey- 

 brown with darker waved terminal line ; cilia whitish ; the under- 

 side whitish slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous, 

 a slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. PEA.NCE, Leech Coll. ; Belgium ; Geemant, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland. Ewp. 

 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 182; Hffm. Eaup. p. 117, pi. 31, 

 f. 22. 



Green with dorsal and subdorsal lines white ; lateral stripe white 

 edged with black above. Food-plants : Carduus acanthoides, 

 SoncJius, and other low plants. 5-6. 



