502 NOCXTJID^. 



2725. Cosniia fulvago. 



Noctua fulvago, Linu. Faun. Suec. p. 312 (1761) ; Borkb. Scriba, Beitr. 2, 



p. 144, pi. 10. f. 3 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 64 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 208. 

 Noctua ceraqo, ScbifF. Wien. Verz. p. 87 (1776) ; Fabr. Maiit. Ins. ii. p. 159 



(1787); Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. if. 190, 444-.^; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 459, pi. 129. IF. 1, 2 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. vii. pi. 673. IF. 1, 2. 

 Noctua fiavesce^is, Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 122. f. 2 (1788). 



Head and thorax pale 5'ellow ; sides of palpi and frons and spots 

 at base of patagia and on metathorax rufous ; tibiae and tarsi tinged 

 with rufous ; abdomen pale ochreous yellow. Fore wing pale 

 yellow ; subbasal line indistinctly double, rufous, excurved, from 



Fig. 170. — Cosmia fulvago, (^ . 1. 



costa to submedian fold, a quadrate rufous patch beyond it from 

 costa to median nervm^e ; antemedial line double, oblique, waved, 

 interrupted ; orbicular and reniform defined by rufous, the former 

 round, the latter with small black aunulus at its lower extremity ; 

 medial line rather diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of 

 cell, then dentate; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, a triangular 

 rufous patch beyond it from costa to vein 5 with pale points on 

 costa ; subterminal line represented by a curved series of small 

 black-brown spots ; cilia yellow slightly tinged with rufous at 

 base, deep rufous at tips. Hind wing yellowish white, the inner 

 area slightly tinged with ochreous. 



Ab. 1. flavescens. Pore wing with the markings almost com- 

 pletely obsolete except the annulate spot at lower angle of cell. 



Ab. 2. asiatica, Bang-Haas, ined. Fore wing more orange- 

 yellow, the markings dark brown, the ante- and postmedial costal 

 patches absent ; cilia dark brown at tips. — Sir Daria. 



Ilab. BniTAi:^, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll., 

 jST. Wales (Salvage) ; Feance ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Atisteia, Zeller Coll. ; Hungary : Switzerland ; Spain, 

 Aragon, Catalonia; Italy; Russia, Esthonia, Frey Coll., Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Sir Daria, 1 J , 1 2 , 

 Issyk Kul, Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Oiwake (Pnjer), 1 c? . 

 Rvp. 32-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 61 ; Barrett, Lep. Bi-it. v. p. 365, pi. 230. f. 2. 



Pinkish brown with darker freckles ; dorsal line paler with dark 

 edges ; thoracic shield dark brown with three pale lines. Food- 

 plant : catkins and leaves of Salix caprea. 4-6. 



