478 



NOCTtJID^, 



brown, the tibiae I'eddish ; abdomen dark brown, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Pore wing deep glossy chestnut-red, the inner medial 

 area suffused with dark brown, the veius with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented by a faint dark striga from costa ; ante- 

 medial line very indistinct, single, dark, oblique, somewhat dentate, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 and to inner margin ; claviform and 

 orbicular absent ; reniform represented by a small faint greyish 

 spot ; medial line very indistinct, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 dark, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, 

 the costa beyond it blackish with pale points ; the postmedial line 

 very slightly darker ; subterminal line greyish slightly defined on 

 inner side by a punctiform brown line, very slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a slightly waved brown 

 terminal line ; cilia rufous with a slight pale line at base. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a slight reddish tinge, the veins slightly 

 darker ; cilia pale rufous ; the ^underside greyish tinged with red 

 and irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. S. Feance, in Coll. Piingeler ; Spain, Andalusia ; Italy ; 

 AlgePvIA. Exp. 34 millim. 



2695. Amathes lota. 



I^ochia lota, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758); Clerck, Icones, pi. 8. 



f. 1 (1759); Esp. "Schmett. iii. pi. 67. f. 1 ; Sepp, Ins. iii. pi. 38; Fit. 



Beitr. pi. Ill; Diip. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 298, pi. 27. f. 4 ; Steph. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 147 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206. 

 Noctua hifp'po'pliaes, Eossi, Mant. ii. p. 281 (1794). 

 I^octua nmnda, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 167 (1827). 



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

 antennsB whitish at base ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with rufous. Tore wing grey-brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight black points below costa and cell ; antemedial 



Fig. 163. — Amathes lota, ^ ■ !• 



line indistinct, oblique, waved, with double series of slight black 

 points before it on the veins ; orbicular and reniform with grey 

 annuli, the former oblique elliptical, the latter oblique oblong, its 

 lower part filled in with black ; a fuscous medial shade ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa then minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, with double series of slight black points 

 beyond it with whitish points between them on the veins and some 



