498 KOCTCTD^. 



with the apex produced and acute, the tennen excurved at middle, then 

 oblique ; 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 

 Teins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco cell iilars ; 

 6, 7 shortly stalked or frotu angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 

 only. 



Sect. I. {Ochrla). Antennse of male minutely sen-ate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas purplish red... aurago. 

 Q. Fore wing with the basal and terminal areas pale yellow. 



a. Fore wing with indistinct line just beyond the double 



postmedial line 'pallidago. 



b. Fore wing without line beyond the double postmedial line, siphuncula.. 



2721. Cosmia aurago. 



Noctua aurago, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. SB (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 159 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fP. 196, 197 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii. p. 453, pi. I'JS. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. Erit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 65 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 207. 

 Noctua pratexta, Fsp. Schmett. iv. pi. 124. f. 2 (1788). 

 Noctua fucata, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 124. ff. 3, 4 (1788). 

 Noctua rtitilago, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 674 (1792) ; Hiibn. Beitr., 



Ges. Schmett. pi. 2. f. L. 



Head and thorax orauge-yellow largely suffused with rufous ; 

 abdomen ochreous yellow. Fore wing with the basal area red 

 suffused with purplish grey, leaving a yellow patch on base of costa 

 and bounded by the indistinct oblique waved yellow antemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniforni small, defined by rufous, the former rounds 

 the latter narrow and constricted at middle ; postmedial line indis- 

 tinct, yellow, minutely dentate, angled inwards at discal fold and 

 strongly incurved below vein 4, the area beyond it red suffused with 



Fig. 169. — Cosiiiicc aurago, (^ . ]. 



purplish grey ; the subterminal line yellow, slightly waved, excurved 

 below vein 7, angled inwards at discul fold, excurved at middle, 

 then incurved, some difiused yellow beyond it at apex ; a slight 

 yellowish line at base of cilia. Hind wing pale yellow with 

 diffused red subterminal band forming streaks on the veins and 

 maculate terminal line ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with red, a slight discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the medial area mottled with red. 



Ah. 2. facata. Much more uniform in colour; fore wing with 

 the medial area suffused with red, the basal and terminal areas 

 redder. 



