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angled outwards below costa, then strongh' dentate ; orbicular 

 represented by a slight whitish mark at its extremity, the reniform 

 by slight whitish marks at the angles of cell ; a pale rufous streak 

 in discal fold from orbicular to postmedial line ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, rufous slightly defined by ochreous on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique and excurved 

 at vein 1, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 very indistinct, ochreous defined on inner side by deep rufous inter- 

 rupted bj' ochreous above veins 6 and 3, slightl}' excurved below 

 costa and at middle ; cilia rufous intersected with ochreous. Hind 

 wing bright cupreous red; cilia pale yellow, with red line through 

 them except towards tornus. Underside of fore wing pale red, the 

 costal and terminal areas whitish irrorated with red ; hind wing 

 with the costal half whitish irrorated with red, the inner half red, 

 a slight red discoidal spot and curved postmedial line rather near 

 termen. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; GEKMATsrv, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls.; Austria; Hungary; Sttria ; Switzerland; JN". Italy; 

 ? Corsica ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 44-48 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 192; Hffm. Eaup. p. 111. pi. 30. 

 f. 17. 



Yellowish green with whitish dorsal line ; an oblique yellow 

 streak from dorsum on 12th sor/iite to the yellow lateral line on 

 11th somite. Food-plants : Elm and E-noi7ymus. 6-7. 



2753. Syntomopus effusa. 



Amphipyra effusa, Boisd. Ind. Metb. p. 68 (1829) ; Geyer, Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. ff. 820, 821 ; Frr. Neiie Beitr. ii. pi. 148. f. 3; Dup. Lep. Fr., 

 Suppl. iii. p. 201, p1. 19. f . 2 ; Mill. Icones, i. p. 136, pi. 5, ff. 5, 8 ; Staud. 

 Cat. Lep. pal. p. 200. 



Amphipyra sciapMla, Staud. Hor. Ent. Soc. Ross. vii. p. 129, pi. 1. f. 12 

 (1870). 



Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous and mixed 

 with dark brown ; palpi with blackish mark at side of 2nd joint ; 

 tegulae with diffused dark medial band ; patagia with dark marks 

 at base and middle ; tibise with blackish marks ; tar?i blackish 

 ringed with ochreous ; abdomen ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore 

 wing ochreous irrorated with dark purple-brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by double purple-brown striae from costa and spot 

 in cell ; antemedial line indistinctly double, with more prominent 

 spots on costa, oblique, sinuous ; claviform represented by a dark 

 point at its extremity ; orbicular and reniform slightly defined by 

 purple-brown and with quadrate dark patch between them, the 

 former elongate-elliptical, the latter with its centre slightly defined 

 by purple-brown, more prominently below ; a purple-brown medial 

 shade from costa to the dark patch in cell and indistinct sinuous 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double, indistinct 

 except towards costa, slightly bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to dark points on the veinf=:, with dark mark 

 on its inner edge at discal fold connecting it with Ihp i-eniform. 



