34 NOCTUIDJE. 



2764. AmpMpyra perflua. 



Nocttta perflica, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 179 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 35 ; Godart, Lep. Fr. t. p. 134, pi. 56.' f. 3 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 23 ; 

 F. de Wald. Ent. i. p. 198, pi. 5. f. 3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 200. 



Noctua pyramidiMa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 192. f. 2 (1796). 



Noctua ulmea, Schi-ank, Faun. Boica, ii. p. 321 (1802). 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with ochreous ; palpi 

 ■whitish at tips ; tarsi ringed with ochreous ; abdomen pale golden 

 brown. Fore wing fuscous brown with a purplish tinge and 

 irrorated with ochreous to the postmedial line, the terminal area 

 whitish tinged with reddish brown especially towards termen and 

 the veins with dark streaks ; a faint whitish subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold, angled outwards below costa ; antemedial 

 line whitish, waved, erect; orbicular a minute faint round whitish 

 annulus ; reniform absent; traces of a dark medial shade; post- 

 medial line double, brown filled in with white, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, angled inwards in discal fold 

 and oblique below vein 4 ; subterminal line whitish, dentate, 

 defined on inner side by brown wedge-shaped marks, angled out- 

 wards at veins 7, 6 ; a terminal series of brown lunules defined on 

 inner side by whitish ; cilia whitish mixed with yellow-brown and 

 with bro\v]i line through them. Hind wing whitish uniformly 

 suffused with pale golden brown, a slight waved dark terminal line 

 from apex to vein 3 ; cilia with a slight whitish line at base. 

 Underside whitish tinged with pale golden brown ; fore wing with 

 the disk suffused with fuscous, a diffused postmedial line excurved 

 from below costa to vein 2 ; hind wing with dark discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Peance ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Austria; 

 Hxjjsigaey; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Scandinavia; Eussia, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll., Ivurland, Leech Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai; E. Siberia, Dahuria, Amurland, Ussuri. ^a.y>. 48-60 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt, k Moths Eur. p. 192 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. Ill, pi. 30. f. 16. 



Pale green ; dorsal line white ; lateral line yellowish white inter- 

 rupted on 3rd to 6th somites; 12th somite with dorsal hump with 

 oblique yellow lines running forwards from it on to 11th somite and 

 oblique white line backwards. Pood-plants : Sallow, Elm, &c. 5-6. 



2765. AmpMpyra tetra. 



lioctuatetra, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 138 (1787); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 

 f. 39 ; Godart, Lep. Fr. v. p. 143, pi. 57. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 200. 

 AmpMpyra jpallida. Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 200 (1901). 



Head and thorax deep glossy red-brown ; pectus and legs paler 

 red-brown mixed with grey, the tarsi ringed with whitish ; abdomen 

 grey suffused with red-brown, the ventral surface red-brown mixed 

 with white. Eore wing deep glossy red-brown finely irrorated with 

 grey, the base of inner margin greyish ; the lines and stigmata 

 absent ; three or four prominent white points on postmedial part of 

 co.sta. Hind wing whitish uniformly suffused with bright red- 

 brown ; cilia with a fine whitish line at base ; the underside 



