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NOCTUID^. 



1133, Barathra curialis. 



(Plate XC. fig. 1.) 



p. 470 (1887); 



Coynmamestra curialis, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus, 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 113. 



2 . Dark fuscous. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas 

 tinged with reddish, also the discal fold iu medial area ; the ante- 

 medial inner area with a faint greenish tinge ; subbasal line 

 double, indistinct, interrupted ; antemedial line erect, hardly trace- 

 able ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular almost obsolete, very 

 faintly defined ; reniform moderate, white, with irregular dark 

 central lunule and black outline ; postmedial line single, black, 

 strongly dentate, bent outwards belosv costa and incurved below 

 vein 4 ; postmedial area paler than ground-colour, with dark 

 striation and irroration, darker towards costa ; subterminal line 

 whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; 

 terminal area with pale irroration, a terminal series of small black 

 lunules. Hind wing fuscous, darker towards termen ; the under- 

 side grey with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Canada, Orilla (Btish), 1 $ ; U.S.A., Maine, Kittery Point, 

 New Hampshire, Franconia. Exj). 43 millim. , 



1134. Barathra brassicae. 



Noctua brassies, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 516 (1758) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 88 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 37, pi. 102. f. 5 ; Steph. 111. Brit. 

 Ent., Haust. ii. p. 194 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 156. 



Nocfua albidilinea. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 191 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., 

 Haust. ii. p. 195. 



Mamestra andalusica, Staud. Cat. p. 90 (1871). 



Mamesfra decolorata, Staud. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1889, p. 34. 



Mamestra scotochroma, Kober, Iris, i. p. 340, pi. 12. f. 13 (1884). 



Mamestra straminea, Failla, Nat. Sic. x. p. 30, pi. 1. f. 5 (1890). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tarsi black with 

 whitish rings ; abdomen grey-brown, with the dorsal crests darker. 



Fig. 5. — Barathra hrassic(B, cf. \. 



Fore wing dark brown irroratcd with grey, a rufous tinge in discal 

 and submedian folds and above inner margin before antemedial 

 line ; a small dark white-tipped fan of scales at base ; the sub- 

 basal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; the 



