474 ARCTIAD^, 



oblique line on middle of inner area ; an oblique spot below costa 

 towards apex, and three wedge-shaped subterminal spots on veins 5, 

 3, and 1 ; a somewhat V-shaped spot below apex, and a triangular 

 terminal spot between veins 3, 4. Hind wing ochreous white. 

 2 . Wings aborted. 



If ah. Caucasus, 4 J ; Transcaucasia, Schuscha, 1 2 ' Armenia. 

 Exp. 34-42 millim. 



2073. Cymbalophora pudica. 



Bomhyx pudica, Esp. Schmett. iii. p. 177, pi. 33. f. 1 (1784) ; Hiibn. Beitr. 

 Scbmett. ii. (4) p. 87, pi. 1 G ; id. Eur. Schmett. ii. ff. 134, 269 ; Herr.- 

 Schaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 141, fi. 1 16, 117 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. iv. p. 313. 

 pi. 32. ff. 1, 2; Staud. Oat. p. 58 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 271. 



Noctua tessellata, De Vill. Ent. Linn. ii. p. 274, pi. 5. f. 18 (1789). 



Head and thorax black ; tegulse, shoulders, upper edge of patagia, 

 and sides of thorax pinkish white ; femora orange above ; abdomen 

 crimson with dorsal black bands or spots, the ventral surface black. 

 Fore wing black, with pinkish-white fascia from base of costa, where 

 it encloses one or two black points, above submedian fold to tornus ; 

 a fascia on inner margin ; the antemedial band oblique from costa 

 to the fascia, where it is acutely angled and retracted ; a medial 

 slightly sinuous band, sometimes interrupted ; a postmedial band 

 oblique from costa to vein 4, where it is angled ; the subterminal 



band arising from costa before apex running inwards to the 

 postmedial band at vein 6, then outwards to termen, then inwards 

 to the postmedial band at vein 4, outwards to termen at vein 2 and 

 inwards to the submedian fascia ; cilia pinkish white. Hind wing 

 pinkish white, the inner area more strongly tinged with crimson ; 

 blackish spots sometimes present on discocellulars, and often four 

 subterminal spots and others on termen above veins 7 and 3. 



Hah. S. Europe, Spain, Frey Coll.. T)almatia,Zeller Coll.; IS". Africa. 

 Exp. 42 millim. 



2074. Cymbalophora oertzeni. 



Arctia oertzeni, Led. Yerh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, v. p. 201, pi. 2. ff. 8, i) 

 (1855) ; Staud. Cat. p 58 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 272. 



^ , Head and thorax black ; antennse ochreous ; neck with 

 orange ring ; coxse and femora above with some fulvous hair ; 

 abdomen crimson above with dorsal series of black spots, the anal 



