476 NOCTtriD^. 



*2691. Amathes scabra. (Plate CYI. fig. 32.) 

 Ortho&ia scahra, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 301 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207. 



(S . Head and thorax ochreous white slightly irrorated with rufous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish ; tarsi with slight whitish rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous Avhite with slight dark irroration, the anal tuft 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and 

 irrorated with a few black scales ; a black point at base and two 

 subbasal black points in cell ; antemedial line indistinct, double,, 

 minutely waved ; orbicular small, oblique elliptical, with ochreous 

 annulus and a small black spot in upper part ; reniform small, 

 narrow, with slight pale annulus, its upper part irrorated with black, 

 its lower part filled in with black ; a slight medial shade, oblique 

 from eosta to lower angle of cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial 

 line rather indistinct, double filled in with ochreous, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique ; subterminal line represented by a series of faint yellowish 

 marks with black points on their inner side, very slightly angled 

 outwards at vein?; the terminal area rather paler; a series of 

 black points just before termen and a slight waved black terminal 

 line. Hind wing white slightly suffused with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot, traces of a postmedial line and diffused subterminal 

 band ; cilia tinged with ochreous ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a black discoidal lunule and traces of a curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hab. Palestine, Jerusalem, in Coll, Piingeler. Exp. 36 millim. 



2692, Amathes cindermanni. 



Noctua hindermanni, Fisch. v. Eosl. Abbild. p. 77, pi. 36. ff. \a-c (1834);. 



Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 327. ff. 1, 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207- 

 Orthosia baUotcB, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 600, pi. 50. f. 1 (1836). 

 Ortho&ia consueta, Herr.-SebafF. Eur. Scbmett. vi. p. 54, Noct. f. 564 (1845). 

 Orthosia pauli, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 301 (1891). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white tinged with reddish 

 brown ; sides o£ palpi and frons blackish ; antennse blackish except 

 at base. Fore wing whitish grey slightly tinged with red-brown 

 and irrorated with brown except terminal area ; subbasal line 

 indistinct, double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial 

 line brown, double, waved, curved; orbicular and reniform with 

 whitish annuli defined by brown, the former round, the latter with 

 fuscous centre, obscured by the medial shade which is diff'used 

 fuscous and oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then double, 

 waved, brown, incurved ; postmedial line brown, double, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to a double 

 series of black points on the veins with whitish points between 

 them, incurved at discal fold and below vein 4 ; postmedial area 

 browner ; subterminal line only defined by the contrast between 

 the postmedial and terminal areas, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of brown points ; 



