57 



6669 Asia Minor, 1888 (Staudinger). 



Var. pontica Stand. Darker than any of the preceding ; 

 ground colour greyisli -brown, with a purple tinge. 

 *500i Germany, 1882 (Staudinger). 



Noctua augur Fah. 



251 Droylesden, 1872 (White). 



3658 Beverley, 1877 -f. 



6762 North Wales, 1889 (Salvage's expedition). 



6761 Sligo, 1889 (Salvage's expedition). 



Much darker than the preceding, and the fore wings 

 of a different shape — the costa straighter and the 

 hind margin much rounded. 

 5338 Beverley, 1883 f. 



[Wings at rest]. 

 *6i28 Beverley, v. 1886 f- 

 *6i29 ,, ,, t- 



*5457 Germany, 1883 (Staudinger). 



[Noctua haruspica Grotei 



Labelled ' North American ? sp. darwinii ? ' Mr. 

 Butler says of this species : ' G. haruspica, thougli 

 very closely allied to G. augur, differs in being 

 constantly much darker and larger.' These 

 specimens are larger than those of N. augur 

 (47 mm. as against 39-42 mm.), but not so dark as 

 6761 above, and, allowing for the difference in size, 

 the two species seem identical. In Dr. Staudinger's 

 ' Catalog,' 1 90 1, the form appears under Agrotis 

 augur as var. haruspica Grote. 



5967 St. Catherine's, Canada West, 1875 (Norman). 



5966 ,, ,, „ „ 



Noctua signum Fab. =sigma Hah. 



4831 Germanv, 1880 (Staudinger). $ 



4832 „ ■ „ „ ? 



4830 „ „ „ 6 



4829 „ „ „ S 



*4677 



Noctua leucogaster Frey. 



5762 Dalmatia, 1885 (Staudinger). $ 



5763 » „ „ c? 



Noctua plecta Linn. 



4100 Lancashire, bred from pupa, vi. 1879. 



4103 „ „■ 



4101 „ „ „ 



4104 „ „ „ 

 3164 Spurn, E. Yorks., vi. 1876 f. 



[Wings at rest]. 

 6401 Nicolajefsk, Amurland, 1881-1886 (Graeser's expedition). ^\ 

 6400 „ „ „ „ ?[ 



6249 Amurland, 1886 (Staudinger). ^) 



Var. glaucimacula Graes. Ground colour dark pur- 

 plish-brown, without the reddish tint of the pre- 

 ceding specimens. Cf. Barrett, Plate 141, iig. 2d. 

 *592i Carmarthen, viii. 1885 (Wilson). 



i *5922 



*5923 



*5924 „ „ „ 



*526i Saxony, 1883 (Staudinger). 



