ATETHMIA. JODIA. 495 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 60 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 357, pi. 229. 

 f. 3. _ 



Brownish grey with dark freckles ; dorsal line pale, irregular, 

 with dark edges ; subdorsal and spiracular lines pale, dark-edged 

 above. Pood-plant, Ash. 10-6. 



2718. Atethniia ambusta. 



Noctua ambusta, Seliiff. Wien. Verz. ]>. 88 (1776); Fabr. Maut. Ins. ii. 



p. 152(1787) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 323, pi. 120. f. 1 ; Frr, Neue Beitr. ii. 



pi. 189; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205. 

 Cirroedia rubens, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 205 (1901). 



(ruhens.) Head and thorax reddish tinged with brown, the scales 

 slightly tipped with grey ; antennae whitish at base ; tarsi ringed 

 with white ; abdomen whitish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing- 

 reddish tinged with brown, the terminal area rather darker, the 

 veins slightly streaked with whitish ; traces of a pale subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the 1st line nearly medial, whitish, 

 excurved from costa to median nervure, then oblique ; orbicular 

 absent ; reniform large, defined by whitish, somewhat constricted 

 at middle ; postmedial line whitish, strongly bent outsvards below 

 costa and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish, excurved 

 below veins 7 and 5. Hind wing white, the terminal area tinged 

 with rufous except towards tornus ; cilia brownish on apical half ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 rufous, an^indistinct pale postmedial line from costa to vein 3. 



Ab. 1. amhiista. Browner. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Leech 

 Coll. ; HuNGARr, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Switzerland ; N. Italy ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; Palestine. Exjj. 26-30 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 185 ; Hffm, Raup. p. 116, pi. 31. 

 f. 14. 



Dull flesh-colour with dorsal and subdorsal whitish lines, with 

 oblique brown streaks between them ; lateral stripe yellow. Food- 

 plants: Apple, Pear. 5. 



Genus JODIA. 



Type. 

 Jodia, Hilbn. Verz. p. 234 (1827) ntfago. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique to just beyond the frontal tuft 

 and moderately fringed with hair below ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded : 

 antennaj of male with fasciculate cilia ; head and thorax clothed with hair and 

 hair-like scales ; tegults produced to a dorsal ridge ; prothorax with ridge4ike 

 crest ; pectus clothed with long hair ; abdomen rather triangular, with some 

 rough hair at base and lateral fringes of hair but witho.it crests. Fore wing 

 with the apex produced and acute, the termen oblique towards tornus ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 froni 

 angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



