AMATHES, 



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Spain ; Coesica ; Italt ; liussiA, Livonia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus ; W. SiBBEiA, Altai ; AV. Tuekestan, Tarbagatai Mts. Exp. 

 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. G2 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 335, pi. 226. f. 2. 



Brown, brownish green, or reddish ochreous ; dorsal line whitish, 

 indistinct; spiracular line broad, white. Food-plants: Oak, Elm, 

 Hazel, &c. 4-6. 



Sect. III. {Dyschorista). Antennce of male ciliated. 



A. Hind wing uniformly tinged with fuscous. 



a. Fore wing with black bars fi-om costa at the lines litura. 



h. Fore wing without black bars from costa at the lines. 



a}. Fore wing with pale streaks on the veins. 



a?. Fore wing with the antemedial line angled outwards 



below costa, then excu iwed gratiosa. 



})-. Fore wing with the antemedial line oblique, waved. 



a^. Fore wing with the markings distinct lucicla. 



//. Fore wing with tlie markings indistinct cleleta. 



I?-. Fore wing without pale streaks on the veins. 



cr. Fore wing with the postmedial line strongly dentate, mansueta, 

 U^. Fore wing with the postmedial line minutely 



den tate iners. 



B. Hind wiug fuscous with the costal area pale plimosoma. 



C. Hind wing fuscous with the veins reddish immacidata. 



T). Hind wing greyish more or less tinged with fuscous and 



with diffused dark subterminal band. 

 «. Fore wing with black bar from costa at subterminal line, lyurinirea. 



b. Fore wing without black bar from costa at subterminal 



line. 



(i^. Fore wing with the orbicular figure-of-8 shaped amerlcana. 



h^. Fore wing with the orbicular quadrate, open above ... puta. 

 E. Hind wing yellowish white. 



a. Fore wing with series of small black spots on inner side 



of subterminal line ralla. 



b. Fore wing without black spots on hiner side of subterminal 



line. 



a^. Fore wing with the markings dark brown inops. 



/)!. Fore wing with the markings pale rufous decipiens. 



2701. Amatlies litura. 



Kocfiicc litura, Linn. Faun. Suec. ed. ii. p. 320 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 177. ff. 4-5; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett, JN^oct. f. 127; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 104, pi. 79. f. 6 ; Frr. K"eue Beitr. pi. 335 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 145 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207. 

 'Noctua poll'Uta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 127. f. 5 (1788). 

 Noctua ornatrix, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., ISToct. f. 843 (1827) ; Frr. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 95. f. 1. 

 Orthosia ineridionalis, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 117 (1871). 

 Ortho&ia borealis, Sparre-Schnieder, Forh.Vid. Sels. Christ. 1882, no. 1, p. 69. 

 Orthosia saturata, Schultz, Illustr. Zeitsch. Ent. v. p. 349 (1900). 



Head and thorax grey-brown suffused with rufou.s ; tips of palpi 

 and sides of frons blackish ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grej^-brown. Pore wing grey suffused with reddish brown and 

 irrorated with brown especially on basal area ; subbasal line black, 

 from costal to submedian fold, with black point beyond it in cell; 

 antemedial line indistinctly double, with prominent black striga from 



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