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ITOCTUIDiE. 



with dark lines at middle and near tips ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen whitish tinned with fuscous. Fore wing pale ochreous 

 mostly suffused with brown and tinged with purple ; subbasal line 

 represented by oblique double stria) from costa and cell ; the sub- 

 costal and median nervures defined by ochreous streaks in cell ; a 

 leaden-coloured patch in submedian fold before the double ante- 

 medial line which is angled outwards below costa and above inner 

 margin and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform large, brown defined by 

 black and Mith pale streak through it, a bidentate whitish patch 

 above and beyond it ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by black, the former small, oblique elliptical; 

 postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal 

 fold, below vein 4 oblique and minutely waved, some pale points on 

 costa beyond it ; subterminal line pale, with prominent dentate 

 black marks before it below costa and at middle, angled outwards 

 at vein 7, dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, and bent outwards to 

 tornus, the area beyond it suffused with brown except at apex ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with brown, the terminal area fuscous, with more or less whitish on 

 termen above tornus ; cilia whitish ; the underside whitish irrorated 

 with fuscous, a discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line, and diffused 

 subterminal band. 



JIab. Hungary; S.E. Russia, Sarepta, 2 <5 , 1 $ , Zeller & Leech 

 Colls. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Turkestan, Turco- 

 mania, Ferghana, Saisan, Issyk-kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi, Kuldja, 

 1 c? . Exp. 36 millim. 



1154. Scotogramma nana. 



Phal(Bm nana, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 398 (1767). 



Nocttia viarmorosa, Bork. Eur. Schniett. iv. p. 424 (1792) ; Frey, Beitr. i. 



pi. 4 ; Dup. L6p. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 193, pi. 18. f. .^) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 65 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. 

 Noctua odontites, Boisd. Inrl. Meth. p. 71 (1829). 

 Hadena tnicrndon, Guen. Noet. ii. p. 96 (1852). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; teguloe with black 

 medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown. 

 Fore wing grey mostly suffused with brown ; a slight black streak 

 in-base of submedian fold ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved ; claviform 

 moderate, tinged with fuscous and defined by black, a bidentate 

 pale mark beyond it below the cell ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres and pale annuli defined by black, the former round 

 or oblique elliptical ; medial line oblique from costa to vein 2, then 

 dentate ; postmedial line double, somewhat dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa. oblique to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side 

 by dentate black marks, angled outwards at vein 7, and dentate to 

 near termen on veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia intersected with grey. Hind wing pale sufl'used 



