36 NOCTTJID^.. 



Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; Aemenia ; Asia Mince, 

 Bithynia, Pontus, Amanus Mts., 1 c? ; Syria, 1 d ; Peesia ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; IL^shmik, Scinde Valley (Leech), 1 c? ; Punjab, 

 Xulu, Sultanpur (G. Young), 1 ^ . Exp. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Bi-it. Lep. p. 114; Barrett, I,ep. Brit. v. p. 253, pi. 217. f. 2. 



Green ; dorsal, subdorsal, and spiracular lines white or pale 

 yellow, the last sometimes partly edged with black above ; head 

 green ; somite 11 with slight prominence. Food-plants : Plantago, 

 Hawthorn, Aquilegia, &c. 5-6. 



2767. AmpMpyra styx. 



Amphipyra stix, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbinett. ii. p. 324 (1851), Noct. f. 473 ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 199. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some white scales ; 

 pectus and legs whitish mixed with brown, the tarsi black ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the ventral surface 

 whitish. Fore wing glossy fuscous brown irrorated with grey ; 

 subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial lines absent ; orbicular a 

 minute indistinct black annulus ; reniform represented by a few 

 black scales ; some white points on postmedial part of costa ; sub- 

 terminal line diffused whitish, erect, slightly sinuous. Hind wing- 

 whitish tinged with brown, the terminal area suff'used with fuscous ; 

 cilia whitish mixed with brown to vein 2 and with slight yellowish 

 line at base ; the underside white tinged with ochreous, the costal 

 area irrorated with brown beyond middle and the termen suffused 

 with brown', 



Hab. Balkan States ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Amanus 

 Mts., 1 (5 ; Palestine. Exp. 32 millim. 



2768. AmpMpyra schrenci. (Plate CVIII. fig. 14.) 



Amphipyra schrenckii, Men. Bull. Ac. Petr. svii. p. '219 (1858) ; id. Schrenck's 

 Eeise in Amurland, p. 61, pi. 5. f. 4 (1859) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 200. 



Head and thorax grey-brown ; palpi fuscous, whitish in front ; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown ; tarsi fuscous ringed 

 with white ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wiug glossy grey- 

 brown slightly irrorated with grey ; subbasal line represented by 

 oblique dark stria3 from costa and cell defined by whitish on outer 

 side ; antemedial line indistinct, dark, slightly defined on inner side 

 by whitish at costa, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa 

 and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular repre- 

 sented by a small white spot slightly defined by blackish, the 

 reniform with very faint irregular whitish annulus ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, dark, slightly defined by greyish on outer side, bent 

 outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 3, ex- 

 curved at vein 1, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line very indistinct, excurved at vein 6, then oblique ; an apical 

 white patch slightly irrorated with brown and with some dark 



