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NOCTPIDJi;. 



small triangular dark spots ; cilia chequered brown and whitish. 

 Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown especially on the 

 veins and terminal area ; a terminal series of brown points and 

 striae ; the underside with discoidal lunule and curved postmedial 

 line with minute dark streaks on the veins. 



Hab. Britaijst, Leech Coll. ; France ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland ; Spain, Aragou ; N. Ltaly ; Dalmatia ; Scandinavia ; 

 Finland ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Ariienia ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus, Bithynia ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 46-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 131 ; Barrett,, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 357, pi. 176. f. 2, 

 Brownish grey slightly tinged with greenish or ochreous ; 

 spiracular line hardly paler ; spots large, black ; head and thoracic 

 plate brown or black. Food-plants : Grasses. 9-5. 



2822. Parastichtis sublustris. 



Nochia suhlustris, Esp. Scbmert. iv. pi. 133, f. 1 (1788); Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 175 ; Wood, Ind. Ent. f. 227 ; 8nell. Vlind. Ned. 



p. 369 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 174. 

 FoctMa litkoxylea, Hiibn. Eiir. Schmett., Noct. f. 240 (1802), nee Schiff. 

 Xylofhasia musicalis, JJup. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. i. p. 177, pi. 113. f. 1 (1827), 



nee Esp. 



Ochreous suffused with rufous ; palpi with some blackish hair 

 at sides ; frons with lateral blackish bars ; fore femora blackish 

 above ; spurs banded with fuscous ; abdomen whitish at base. 

 Fore wing, with the subbasal line represented by slight double 

 rufous striae from costa and cell ; a slight wedge-shaped rufous 

 mark above inner margin near base ; antemedial line slight, rufous, 

 with double striae from costa, then oblique, angled outwards in 

 submedian fold and above inner margin and inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform slightly detined by rufous ; orbicular and reniform 

 slightly defined by rufous, the former very oblique elliptical ; a 

 curved medial rufous shade from costa to submedian fold ; post- 

 medial line double at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to a series of brown points on the veins, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, slightly defined by whitish on 

 outer side, angled inwards in submedian fold and connected by a 

 streak with the antemedial line, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line faint, pale, hardly defined except by the area 

 beyond it being dark rufous at middle and towards tornus with 

 dark streaks on the veins, angled outwards at vein 7, to termen at 

 veins 4, 3, and angled inwards in discal and submedian folds ; a 

 terminal series of shght dark lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected 

 with rufous. Hind wing ochreous suffused with rufous, the veins 

 with dark streaks ; a slight discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, 

 and fine dark tei'rainal line ; cilia reddish ochreous with slight 

 brown line through them ; the underside pale ochreous, the Go&tal 

 and terminal areas suff'used with rufous, a small discoidal spot and 

 sinuous postmedial line with miniite dark streaks on the veins. 



