471 



3322, Luperina testacea. 



Nodua testacea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 81 (1776) ; Hlibn. Em-. Schraett., 

 Noct. f. 139; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 133, pi. 81. f. 4; Steph. 111. Brit. 

 Ent., Haust. iii. p. 5 ; Staiid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 168. 



Foctua unca. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. Iit4 (1SU9). 



Noctua lunato-strigata. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 194 (1809). 



Noctua x-notata, Haw. Lep. Brit, p, 194 (1809). 



Luperina gui'iieei, Doubl. Entom. Ann. 1864, p. 123. 



Head and thorax rufous, the hairs tipped with whitish ; sides of 

 palpi and frons hlackish ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish suffused with rufous. Fore wing pale rufous with 

 slight blackish irroration ; subbasal line represented by two slight 

 blackish strise from costa ; antemedial line double, the outer line 

 strong, black, excurved in interspaces and angled inwards on the 

 veins ; claviform represented by a small black wedge-shaped mark ; 

 orbicular and reniform small with faint whitish annuli very in- 

 completely defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 with straight inner edge ; an indistinct diffused medial line, oblique 

 frrm costa to median nervure ; postmedial line double filled in with 

 whitish, the outer line very indistinct, slightly bent outwards below 

 costa, oblique to vein 6, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved and emitting a short black streak in submedian interspace 

 to medial line, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line very indistinct, pale, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, 

 the area beyond it darker brown except at apex ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia brown intersected with yellowish and 

 with yellowish line at base. Hind wing pure white with fine 

 brown terminal line except towards tornus ; cilia tinged with 

 rufous at tips towards apex ; the underside with the costal area 

 slightly tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 1. gueneei. Fore wing paler, more irrorated with brown, 

 the lines less black. 



Ab. 2. Much darker brown-— Scotland. 



IJab. Britain^, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll. ; 

 FKAJfCE, Leech Coll. ; Gekmany, Zell^r, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; 

 AtrsTKiA, Frey Coll.; Hungary; Switzerland; Italy; Dalmatia ; 

 S. Sweden ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



Larva, Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 112 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 336, pi. 173. 



Much wrinkled, pinkish ochreous ; warts absent ; head and 

 thoracic plate brownish yellow ; anal plate subconcave. Food- 

 plants : roots of grasses. 5-7. 



3323. Luperina dtimerili. 



Nodaa dmmrilii, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 277, pi. 90. f. 4 (182R) ; Herr.- 

 Sehaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 101 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 337, pi. 174. 

 f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 169. 



Nodua amentata. Germ, Faun. Ins. Eur. xxii. pi. 16 (1812). 



