588 NOCTuiMi;. 



on 3rd segment large. Fore vring with the apex rounded, tlae termeu evenly 

 curved and hardly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



3457. Telesilla amethystina. 



Noctua amethystina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 69, 597-8 (1802) ; Dup. 

 Lep. Fr. vi. p. 328, pi. 93. fi'. 3, 4 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 639 ; Stand. Oat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 235. 



Head and thorax purplish pink mixed with red-brown ; basal 

 joint of antennae with white ring at tip ; tegulae tipped with 

 whitish ; pectus and legs red-brown, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen red-brown tinged with grey, the crests dark at tips. Fore 

 wing purplish pink suffused with red-brown, the outer part oi: 

 medial area pinker ; subbasal line black defined by whitish on 

 outer side, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line brown 

 defined by pink on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique and slightly sinuous ; claviform defined by a white striga 

 at extremity with an oblong black-brown patch beyond it extending 

 to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with pink centres slightly 

 defined by red-brown, the former with white bars at sides, rather 

 elliptical, the latter with white bar on inner side and slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure, black-brown patches in cell before and 

 between them ; postmedial line double tilled in with pink, slightly 



Fig. 147. — Telesilla amethystina, cJ 



angled inwards below costa, then bent outwards, minutely dentate 

 below vein 6 and incurved below vein 4, some whitish points beyond 

 it on costa with black marks between them ; subterminal line indis- 

 tinct, pink defined by brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and 

 at middle ; a fine terminal whitish line ; cilia brown mixed with pink 

 and with a black line through them. Hind wing cupreous brown 

 with a greyish tinge ; an indistinct pale postmedial line somewhat 

 incurved at vein 2 ; cilia grey-brown with a fine whitish line at base ; 

 the underside whitish thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 sufi^used with brown, a brown discoidal spot and indistinct minutely 

 waved curved postmedial line. 



Hah. BiUTAiN, Buttermere (Cannolds), 1 S ; Fkance ; Germany, 

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

 Frey Coll.; N. Italy ; Balkan States; S.E. IItjssia ; E. Siberia, 

 Ussuri; .Japan, JLnkodato (Andreiva), "2 <S , Tokio (Maries), 1 d" , 



