172 NOCTflD.E. 



frons with black bars ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown with the dorsal crests black. Fore wing grey tinged 

 ■with red-brown and irrorated with black, the medial area suffused 

 with black, the veins blackish slightly irrorated with white ; sub- 

 basal line black defined by whitish on outer side, angled outwards 

 below costa, inwards in cell and ending at submedian fold ; a 

 strong sinuous black streak below base of cell and an oblique 

 streak above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is 

 double filled in with white, waved, oblique from costa to submedian 

 fold ; claviform obscurely defined by black ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter with white annulus 

 and some white in centre, slightly angled inwards on median 

 nervure ; a diffused black medial line, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure ; postraedial line black defined by white on outer side, 

 bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to short 

 streaks on the veins, angled inwards above vein 6, excurved to 

 vein 4, then strongly incurved, some white points beyond it on 

 costa ; postmedial area paler except towards costa ; subterminal 

 line pale, defined on inner side by reddish brown and with faint 

 dentate dark marks before it at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia bi'own with whitish line at base. Hind wing 

 grey suffused with brown especially on terminal area; a dark discoidal 

 lunute ; cilia ochreous white with dark line through them ; the 

 underside whitish suflfused and irrorated with brown, a black dis- 

 coidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. AtrsTETA, HuNOARy; Switzerland, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; 

 JN". Italy; Scandinavia. ii>j). 38 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 2J1 ; Hffin. Raup. p. 297. 



Yellowish grey. Food-plant, Veronica. 



2931. Trachea pabulatricula. 



Nodua fahulatricula, Brahm, Ins. Kal. ii. ]3. u95 (1791) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 175. 

 h'octua connexa, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 360 (1792) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., 



Suppl. iv. p. 215, pi. 68. f. 4 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Knt., Hatist. iii. p. 6. 

 Nodua elota, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 462 (1818). 



Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white and rufous, the 

 pro- and metathoracic crests rufous, tegulae with black medial line, 

 patagia edged with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with 

 lateral black bars ; pectus and legs grey-white ; abdomen grey 

 suffused with brown, the dorsal crests black. Fore wing rather 

 narrow, grey-white irrorated with fuscous, the inner antemedial 

 area and the medial area towards costa and inner margin suffused 

 with black ; subbasal line indistinct, double, angled outwards 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold in base of which there 

 is a sinuous black streak ; a curved black streak above inner 

 margin before the antemedial line, which is double filled in with 

 white, angled outwards below costa, then very obliquely excurved 



