486 NOCTUIDiE. 



Zeller and Leecli Colls. ; Austpja, Leecli Coll. ; Hijngaey, Leech 

 Coll. ; Savitzeeland, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Italy ; Sicily ; 

 Sweden ; Aemenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 30-38 millim. 

 Larva. Kirby, Bxitt. & Moths Eur. p. 182 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 117, pi. 31. f. 21 

 Olive-green with dorsal series of dark V-shaped marks ; dorsal 

 and subdorsal lines white ; stigmatal stripe bright green ; warts 

 and hairs black. Food-plants : Bumeoo, Primula, and other low 

 plants. 5. 



2704. Amatlies deleta. (Plate CVII. fig. 4.) 



Orthosia deleta, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. svi. p. 75 (1881) ; id. Cat. Lep. 



pal p. 206. 

 Orihosia decolomta, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206 (1901). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale rufous, the hair on pectus- 

 and base of abdomen greyish. Pore wing pale rufous, the veins 

 rather paler ; subbasal line very indistinct, pale, Avaved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and above inner margin and escurved 

 in submedian interspace ; orbicular and reniform large, sligbtly 

 defined by white, the former oblique elliptical, the latter somewhat 

 constricted at middle; an indistinct waved rufous medial line ; post- 

 medial line indistinct, pale, slightlj- defined by small brown spots on 

 outer side, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and 

 below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined on inner side 

 b)' slight dark spots, somewhat angled outwards at veins 6 and 3 ; 

 a fine waved dark line just before termen ; cilia with fuscous line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish almost uniformlj^ suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; cilia whitish tinged with pink ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with pink and slightly irrorated with rufous. 



Ab. 1. decolorata. Paler ; fore wing reddish grey. 



Hah. Armenia, 1 S ; Asia Minob, Pontus, Taurus. Exp. 

 84 millim. 



*2705. Amathes maiisueta. 



Cerasiis mianmeta, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 322, IS'cct. f. 472 



(1845) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206. 

 Orthosia pc7itic a, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206 (1901). 



Head and thorax grej^-white slightly mixed with brown and 

 faintly tinged with rufous ; palpi and lower part of frons black ; 

 antennae black ; tarsi black with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated 

 with black. Pore wing grey irrorated with fuscous and tinged with 

 olive-green, the medial area below the cell pale rufous ; subbasal 

 line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, with some blackish 

 suffusion beyond it on costa ; antemedial line double, irregularly 

 waved, rather obliqu:e, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by blackish, the former very small, 

 round, the latter constricted at middle and filled in with blackish ;: 

 a waved medial line, oblique from, costa to median nervure ; post- 



