AMATHES. 487 



medial line double, bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate 

 and jjroduced to a double series of black points on the veins, angled 

 inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of small 

 whitish lunules with slight blackish lunules on their inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; a series 

 of small blackish spots just before termen connected by a crenulate 

 line and with slight whitish points before them ; cilia grey with a 

 series of slight fuscous lunules followed by a fine line. Hind wing- 

 pale brown suffused with fuscous, the veins darker, the termen 

 whitish between veins 3 and 1 ; cilia whitish tinged with brow^n at 

 base ; the underside white slightly tinged and irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal lunule, rather diffused postmedial line somewhat 

 incurved at discal fold and waved terminal line from costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. pontica. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey without any 

 rufous or olive tinge. — Pontus. 



Hah. ■? Sicily ; ? Armenia ; Asia Mixor, Pontus, Amasia, in Coll. 

 Plingeler, Bithynia, Lydia, Cilicia ; Palestine, in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



2706. Amathes iners. 



Caradrvna iners, Germ. Faim. Ins. Eur. svi. pi. 24 (1817) ; Treit. Schmett. 



Eur. V. 2. p. 271 (1825); Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 292, pi. 27. f. 2. 

 Nootua suspecta, Hxibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 633 (1827) ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 204. 

 Nootua congener, Gever, Eur. Schmett., ]N"oct. f. 862 (1827); Err. Neue 



Beitr. iii. pi. 209. ff. 2, 3. 

 Orthosia Icevis, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 65, pi. 76 (nee Hiibu.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with pale brown ; palpi 

 tinged with fuscous at sides ; pectus Avhitish ; anal tuft of male pale 

 rufous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with fuscous and slightly 

 tinged with rufous; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, incurved 

 in cell ; claviform minute, slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate with whitish annuli slightly defined by dark 

 scales, the former upright elliptical ; a slight medial shade, oblique 

 to median nervure ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to slight 

 black streaks on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa : subterminal line indistinct, pale, 

 slightly defined on each side by brown, somewhat excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia with 

 a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing pale suffused and irrorated 

 with brown ; cilia white with a dark line through them except 

 towards tornus ; the underside whitish irrorated with pale brown, a 

 slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. si(S2)ecta. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright rufous ; 

 abdomen and hind wing reddish brown. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Leech 



