494 NOCTtriD^. 



Ab. 2. Ground-colour pale brownish ocbreous, not tinged with 

 •orange or red except at extremity of abdomen and on hind wing. 



Hah. Cai^ada (Norman), 3 c? , Nova Scotia (Redman), 1 c? , 1 5 , 

 Alberta, Calgary (WoUei/-Dod), 5 c? , Br, Columbia, Coldstream 

 Ranch (Hiss Ricardo), 1 S \ U.S.A. south to Yirginia and west 

 to the Rocky Mts., 4 cJ , 4 $ (Doubledaij), 1 c? type, jSI'ew York, 

 2 <S . Exp. 36-48 millim. 



2717. Atethmia xerampelina. 



Noct'ua xeramj)eUna, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 183. f. .5 (1793) ; Hilbn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 421 (1827); Dup. Lep. Fr. ^^ii. p. 249, pi. llfi. f. 1 ; 



En-. Neue Beitr. ii. pi. 149. f. 2; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 858; 



Mill. Icones, pi. 33. if. 4-7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. 

 Noctua centraqo. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 236 (1809) ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 84 ; 



Steph. 111. iBrit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 65. 

 Cirradia imicolor, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 116 (1871). 

 CirracUa pallida, Staud. Ins, iv. p. 299 (1891). 

 Cirrcedia maculifera, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 299 (1891). 



Head and thorax yellow suffused with rufous ; abdomen ochreous 

 yellow. Fore wing bright yellow; the 1st line medial, straight, 

 slightlj^ oblique ; medial area suffused with rufous except cell and 

 costal area ; orbicular absent ; reniform large, rufous, ill-defined ; 

 postmedial line straight from costa to vein 6, then oblique, the 

 costal edge bej'ond it rufous with pale points ; terminal area rufous 



Fig. 166. — Atethmia xeranqxlina, (^ . \. 



except at apex, its inner edge oblique from termen just below apex 

 to discal fold, where it is angled, then angled outwards at vein 4. 

 Hind wing yellowish white slightly tinged with rufous, especially 

 ou terminal area ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 rufous, traces of a curved postmedial line from costa to vein 3. 



Ab. 1. unicolor. Fore wing nearly uniform reddish with the 

 lines yellow. 



Ab. 2, pallida. Paler; fore wing reddish or greyish ochreous; 

 hind wing whitish. 



Ab. 3. rnacidifera. Similar, but fore wing with dark reniform. 



Hab. Bkitain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll. ; 

 Feance, Zeller and Sand Colls. ; Geemany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 AusiKiA, Leech Coll. ; Htjngaey, Frey Coll. ; Swiizerland, Frey 

 Coll. ; Spain, Castile ; Btjlgaeia ; Armekia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Bithynia, Taurus ; Syria ; Palestine, 1 J . Ex2y. 32-36 millim. 



