484 NOCTTJIDiE. 



costa on its outer edge, oblique, waved ; orbicular and reniform 

 large with pale fuscous centres and grej' annuli, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter angled inwards on median nervure ; a diffused 

 rufous medial line with blackish striga on it from costa, oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell ; post-medial line indistinctly double with 

 two black strioe from costa, bent outwards below costa, then some- 

 what dentate and produced to slight black points on the veins,. 



Pig. 164. — Ainatliesliiwra, (^ . \. 



incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, greyish definecT 

 on inner side by two prominent black spots below costa, then by a 

 series of black points, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle : a slight waved fuscous terminal line ; cilia 

 with brown line near base and brown tips. Hind wing pale grey- 

 brown with slight waved terminal line ; cilia whitish with a fino 

 brown line through them ; the underside whitish grey irrorated 

 with brown, a slight discoidal spot and indistinct somewhat waved, 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. meridionalis. Paler ; fore wing bluish grey with rufous^ 

 or fuscous medial shade. 



Ab. 2. saturata. Fore wing suffused with fuscous from median 

 area to term en. 



Hah. Beitain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Geemakt, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; ApstpvIa ; Hukgaky ; Switzerland ; Spain, 

 Castile, Andalusia ; Italy ; Algeria ; S. Russia ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus. E.vjj. 30-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 63 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 344, pi. 228. f. 1. 

 'Dull yellowish green with darker freckles ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale, indistinct, with darker edges ; spiracular line whitish 

 yellow edged with black above ; head tinged with brown. Pood- 

 plants : Ruhtis, iSali.v, Eumecc, &c. 4-6. 



*2702. Amathes gratiosa. (Plate CVII. fig. 3.) 



Orthosia fjraiiosa, Staud. Hoi\ Soc. Ent. Eoss. svi. p. 76 (1881); id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 206. 



Head and thorax pale rufous slightly mixed with dark brown ; 

 sides of palpi and frons blackish ; antennse black except at base ; 

 fore and mid tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen pale brown 

 irrorated with dark brown. Pore wing pale rufous thickly irrorated 

 with dark brown, the veins streaked with white ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight double strife from costa and cell filled in with 



