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a". Tegulaj with dark medial line &od<B. 



b'\ Tegulaj without dark medial line defessa. 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey. 



a^. Fore wing with the medial area luscous ... repentina. 

 b^. Fore wing with the medial area con- 



colorous orida. 



c'. Fore wing with the ground-colour ferru- 

 ginous, tlie stigmata defined by white implexa. 



b^. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique below 

 vein 4. 



a"*. Fore wing with the lines defined by white pecuiiaris. 



b^. Fore wing with the lines not defined by white. 



ft*. Fore wing ochreous whitish suh7narina. 



c*. Fore wing reddish brown mendosica. 



*1152. Scotogramma armata. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 2.) 



Mamestra armata, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 15 ; id. Oat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 16U. 



cJ . Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; tegulae 

 with dark lines at middle and near tips ; patagia with some black 

 scales near upper edge ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen 

 reddish brown mixed with fuscous. Fore wing grey mostly 

 suffused with brown, the medial and terminal areas with dark or 

 reddish brown ; the veins dark defined by whitish streaks, on base 

 of vein 2 forming a dentate mark ; subbasal line represented by 

 double oblique black stria3 from costa and cell ; a slight black streak 

 above inner margin before the antemedial line which is double, 

 angled outwards below costa, inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous 

 to vein 1, then angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 elongate and acute at extremity, defined by black and with pale 

 streak at middle ; orbicular and reniform narrow with white 

 annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical ; post- 

 medial line double, filled in with whitish, bent outwards below 

 costa, angled outwards at vein 5, then incurved to vein 2 ; sub- 

 terminal line white, defined on inner side by dentate black marks 

 below costa and at middle, angled outwards to termen at veins 8, 

 7, 6, 4, 3, 2. Hind wing pale tinged with fuscous brown, especially 

 on the veins and terminal area ; the underside whitish, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, the veins streaked with 

 brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, Issyk-kul ; E. Tttrkest^^jn, 

 Kuldja, in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 40 millim, 



1153. Scotogramma dianthi. 



Noctua dianthi, Tausch. Mem. Mosc. 1809, ii. p. 316, pi. 20. f. 2; Hiibn. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 587; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. pi. G5. f. G; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 160. 

 Hadena dentigera, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1837, p. 35. 

 Uadena actinobola, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1837, p. 38, & 185(;, ii. p. 32, 



pi. 3. f. 6. 



Head and thorax pale ochreous mixed with dark brown ; tcgulic 



