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NOCTUID^. 
Amathes c-nigrum, Linn. (Plate CLXXVI. fig. 4 (larva).) 
Noctua c-nigrum, Linn. Faun. Suec. 1193. 
Larva : dorsal area pink ; a broad deep black dorso-lateral stripe, followed by a pale 
yellow lateral stripe of the same width ; a sublateral chain of black spots ; a narrow brownish- 
red stripe immediately below the spiracles ; ventral area minutely speckled with black ; head 
and legs pink. 
Feeds on Menispermum, Viola, and other plants. 
The coloration, is totally different from the European form as figured by Freyer^ vii. 
pi. 608, but the imagos are identical. 
Amathes ruptistriga, Wlk. (Plate CLXI. fig. 12.) 
Hadena ruptistriga, Wile. Cat. xxxiii. p. 739. 
Expanse 1^ inch. 
Female. Pale brown ; head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated with black scales ; some 
dark strigae from the costa ; the cell filled in with black, interrupted by the pale orbicular 
stigma ; traces of postmedial and submarginal lines. 
Aucha velans, Wlk. (Plate CLXII. fig. 15.) 
Aucha vclans, Wlh. Cat. xiii. p. 1138. 
Expanse H inch. 
Head and thorax dark fuscous brown ; abdomen paler brown. Fore wing dark fuscous 
brown ; an indistinct dark spot at end of cell ; faint traces of double postmedial and sub- 
marginal lines. Hind wing fuscous brown, with a yellow-brown fascia below the end of the 
cell and round its lower angle ; a series of marginal and cilial yellow-brown marks. 
APAMIIN^. ■ 
Dipterygia cristifera. (Plate CLXII. fig. 7.) 
Expanse \\ inch. 
Male. Allied to D. nocturna, Hmpsn. ; fore wing with the orbicular and reniform in- 
distinctly outlined with olive-yellow ; the postmedial line more distinct on the disk and evenly 
waved ; some indistinct olive-yellow on the costa before the apex and on the submarginal 
series of streaks ; the inner margin and patch at outer angle pale brown, not whitish ; the 
black line inside the latter straight and erect, not lunulate. The crest on the thorax very 
conspicuous ; the underside of the thorax, abdomen, and legs pinkish. 
