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interrupted on the humped segments by dark pale-edged blotches; a lateral series of pale oblique streaks; 

 spiracular line yellowish white; head freckled brown and ochreous; the 12 th segment with two prominent 

 points; feeding on nettle and other low plants. Occurs throughout Europe; in Algeria and Morocco; in 

 Armenia, Siberia, and Amurland. 



A. asclepiadis Schiff. (65k). Scarcely distinguishable in the imago state from triplasia L., but differing asclepiadis. 

 altogether in the larva; this is bluish white, tinged with green on the thoracic segments, dotted with black; 

 the dorsal tubercles large; lateral stripe broadly yellow; on each segment above it a large black dot, beneath 

 it two large black dots and several smaller ones; head greenish yellow, with black dots; feeding on Asclepias 

 vincetoxieum, concealed by day on the ground beneath the root leaves. A local species found in S. Sweden, 

 throughout Central Europe, (except Holland and England), in Portugal, Italy, Dalmatia, S.E. Russia; also in 

 the Ussuri district and Japan: in the ab. jagowi Bartel from the Engadine, the basal area is not tinged with jagowi. 

 pink and is without dark markings. 



A. tripartita Hufn. (= asclepiadis Esp. nee Schiff., triplasia Hbn. fig. 269) (65 k). Distinguished from tripartita. 

 triplasia by the whitish grey basal area, the less distinct submarginal line, black-edged at apex, and by 

 the oblique, elongate, orbicular stigma becoming confluent into a traverse blotch with the mark on vein 2; 

 the pale spaces have something of a greenish tinge; but frequently the pale scaling is obscured by dark 

 suffusion, = ab. urticae Hbn. Larva greenish or reddish; not so strongly humped as in triplasia; a urticae. 

 dorsal series of darker oval marks; a subdorsal series of oblique darker streaks; lateral line white, connected 

 on segments 5, 6, 7, by white lines with the dorsal area; segment 12 with two prominent points; feeds on nettle 

 Occurs throughout Europe, in the Canaries, in Armenia, Pontus, the Altai Mts., E. Siberia, and Amurland. 



A. abrostolina Btlr. (= urentis Leech nee Guen.). Forewing dark brownish fuscous, without any pale abrostolina. 

 patches: the lines double, conversely black and grey, filled up with slightly lustrous grey, both nearly straight; 

 the stigmata and the mark on vein 2 roundish, concisely black-edged and with dark centres; submarginal 

 line pale grey, between two dark shades; termen pale grey before the black terminal line; a slight bronzy 

 tint towards anal angle; hindwing blackish fuscous throughout; the fringe grey. Quite a small species, found 

 only in Japan. 



Subfamily Noctuinae. 



The outstanding characteristic of this subfamily is the absence of spines on the middle tibiae, by which 

 feature it is distinguished from the one preceding; as in that, the species included in it are very diverse, both 

 in size and superficial appearance; the first four genera, with species having the termen of forewing angled 

 have usually been placed in a separate subfamily, the Gonopterinae ; but beyond the contour of wings, which 

 however, is not restricted to this group, there is no valid justification for their separation ; similarly, the group 

 of FociUinae, with longer sometimes sickle-shaped palpi, is also included. The habits of the larvae, where 

 known, and other details, will best be treated under the generic descriptions. 



1. Genus: eosinophil a Bsd. 



Tongue well developed; frons smooth, clothed, like the vertex, with rough scales; palpi upcurved in 

 front of face, the second segment thickly clothed with scales, the third as long as second, but slender and 

 smooth; dorsum slightly crested on basal segment; tibiae smooth; forewing with apex slightly produced, termen 

 strongly elbowed or toothed at vein 4, concave above; hindwing slightly bent at veins 7 and 2. Type: 

 C. xanthyndima Bsd. 



Sect. I: Antennae of c? with pedicellate fascicles of cilia. 



C. xanthyndima Bsd. (= auragoides Guen., variolosa Walk., edentata Walk.) (66 a). Piather larger on xanthyn- 

 the average than erosa Hbn.; the ? yellower, but greyer in outer half; the <? consistently darker, especially dima - 

 in outer half; the white scaling beyond costal end of outer line much less; the lower part of outer line more 

 strongly concave inwards; hindwing of c? always dark fuscous. This African and generally tropical form 

 appears to occur also in Amurland, China, and Japan, along with erosa; but the genitalia as well as the 

 antennae of the cTcT of the two species are totally different. 



Sect. II: Antennae of d 1 with tuberculate fascicles of cilia. 



