488 NOCTUID^E. 



point bej'-ond it in cell ; antemedial line brown defined on inner 

 side by pale pink, beut inwards below costa, then verj' oblique and 

 fcliglitl}^ incurved above vein 1, with another line before it from 

 costa to submedian fold ; claviform slightly defined by brown at 

 extremity ; orbicular pale pink defined at sides by whitish, oblique 

 quadrate, its lower extremity confluent with the reniform which is 

 represented by a narrow wedge-shaped pinkish bar ; some dark 

 striaB from medial part of costa ; the outer edge of rufous area very 

 oblique, slightly sinuous below vein 2 and almost meeting the ante- 

 medial line at inner margin ; postmedial line double, fine, pale 

 brown, angled outwards below costa, obhquely incurved to vein 5, 

 the inner line then bent inwards to below angle of cell and oblique 

 and dentate to inner margin at antemedial line, the outer incurved 

 and waved, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 indistinct, whitish, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 where there 

 is a black point on its inner side, then minutely waved and close to 

 inner edge of the pale brown terminal area ; the termen and cilia 

 with blackish marks at the excision between veins 4 and Ji ; cilia 

 pale rufous, blackish at tips in the excisions. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and inner area tinged with ochreous ; a pale brown post- 

 medial line slightly angled at vein 4 ; a pale subterminal line, double 

 and waved from costa to vein 4, then single and dift'used ; a fine 

 brown terminal line and the cilia tipped with brown from apex to 

 vein 4 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with rufous 

 except towards base, a brown striga on upper discocellular, a fine 

 sinuous subterminal line angled inwards below costa with traces of 

 another line beyond it. 



Hah. Britain, Shetland Is., England, Leech Coll. ; Prance, Sand 

 Coll. ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Zeller Coll. ; Switzeeland ; Spain ; 

 Italy, Courmayeur (Rampson), Capri (C S. Browne); Greece, 

 jVIerlin Coll.; Algeria; Azores (0. Grant), 1 c? , 5 9 ; Scan- 

 dinavia; liussiA; Aembnia; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Pontus; Syria. 

 llJiVj). 46-56 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 127 ; Earreth, Lep. Brit. v. p. 55, pi. 190. f. 3. 



Green or brown with whitish dots ; dorsal line whitish, inter- 

 rupted ; spiracular line pale or whitish; head pale greeu or 

 ochreous ept^'kled with brown. Pood-plants : Senecio, liumecv, 

 Viola, &c. 7-? ar>d 10-3. 



3348. Trigonophora iris. (Plate CXX. fig. 1.) 



PMoffophora iris, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 64 (1852) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 

 p. 171 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 185. 



Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous ; palj)i pale 

 red ; tegulse with fine brown lines at middle and near tips ; patagia 

 with a fine browii line near base : metathoracic crests bright rufous ; 

 j)(.'ctu8 pale rufous ; the legs ochreous mixed with brown ; abdomen 

 ochreous, the dorsal crests and ventral surface rufous. Pore wing 



