AMATHES. 481 



with fuscous leaving ochreous segmental bands. Fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous ; subbasal line rufous, angled outwards below 

 costa and ending at subraedian fold; antemedial line rufous, 

 oblique, waved, angled inwards on median nervure and outwards 

 at submedian fold ; orbicular and reniforra large, defined by rufous, 

 the former round, the latter with black spot in lower part ; a 

 rufous medial line from costa to discal fold ; postmedial line rufous, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to 

 slight streaks on the veins, incurved below vein 4; subterminal 

 line rufous, excurved below costa and at middle and incurved in 

 submedian interspace ; a waved rufous terminal line. Hind wing 

 ochreous suffused with fuscous 'except costal area and termen ; 

 cilia ochreous white ; the underside grey-white slightly irrorated 

 with fuscous, the costal area tinged with ochreous, a blackish 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. nigridens. Fore wing with the lines black and strong. 



Hab. Beixain, Leech Coll. ; Ireland, Derry (Salvar/e) ; Feajstce, 

 Sand Coll. ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

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

 N. LiALY ; Scandinavia ; Etjssia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. 

 Kvj}. 34-44 mi]lim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 62 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 338, pi. 226. f. 3. 



Brown or ochreous brown ; dorsal line paler, traversing a series 

 of' dark brown V-shaped marks ; subdorsal line pale, partly black- 

 edged above ; spiracular line pale ; posterior dorsal dots of each 

 segment outside the dark mark. Food-plants : seeds and buds of 

 Elm, Poplar, and Salix. 4-6. 



2699. Amathes bicolorago. (Plate CVII. fig. 2.) 



Xantliia hkoloraao, Guen. Isoct. i. p. 397 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 218. 

 Xanthia forrugineoides, Guen. Noct. i. p. 398 (1852); Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 206. 

 Xanthia sfpurcata, Wlk. xi. 749 (1857). 



Head and thorax fulvous ; abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused 

 with fuscous. Fore wing fulvous yellow, the terminal half suffused 

 with fuscous, less strongly on terminal area; subbasal line brown, 

 waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line fuscous, 

 angled outwards below costa and in submedian fold and inwards on 

 median nervure and vein 1 ; orbicular and leniform defined by 

 brown, the former oblique elliptical, the latter rather constricted 

 at middle and with small blackish spot in its lower part ; medial 

 line bounding the dark area, angled inwards in cell, outwards on 

 median nervure and inwards in submedian fold ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then rather strongly dentate 

 and produced to black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line ochreous, defined by the contrast between the 

 fuscous and paler terminal areas, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind 



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