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c*. Fore \vin2; with the ground-coloui- dark grey. 

 a*. Foi'e wing tinged with purple. 



a". Fore wing with white .spot oil reniforni ... orisabcna. 

 b°. Fore wing without white spot on reniform. 

 a''. Fore wing without red suffusion in discal 

 and subiuedian folds, reniform convex 



on inner side h)-acMola. 



b'. Fore wing with red suffusion in discal 

 and subnaedian folds, reniform concave 



on inner side ruhrifusa. 



h". Fore wing not tinged with purple. 



a*^. Fore wing with the reniform angled in- 

 wards on median nervure lomhrosa. 



b^. Fore wing with the reniform not angled 

 inwards on median nervure. 

 a?. Fore wing with the terminal area not 

 paler than the ground-colour. 

 d^. Fore wing without pale patch on inner 



area before subterminal line plicafa. 



6*. Fore wing with pale patch on inner 



area before subterminal line gnaia. 



b"^. Fore wing with the terminal area paler 



than the ground-colour xclaina. 



d^. Fore wing with the ground-colour olive- 

 brown tcnehra. 



e*. Fore wing with the ground-colour pale grey 

 or whitish. 

 w'. Fore wing with the orbicular minute, indis- 

 tinct ■piisilla. 



i*. Fore wing with the orbicular large. 



a°. Fore wing with white points on lower ex- 

 tremity of reniform. 

 a? . Fore wing with hardly any ochreous 

 tinge, and with distinct dentate fuscous 



marks before subterminal line scrraiilinca. 



b''. Fore wing with distinct ochreous tinge, 

 the dentate marks before subterminal 



line indistinct ; size larger spalax. 



b^. Fore wing without white points on lower 



extremity of reniform insole its. 



1225. Polia proxima. 



Nociua proxima,-B.nhn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 409 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vi. p. 264, pi. 89. f. 5 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 

 Haclena cana, Ev. Bull. Mo.sc. Soc. 1841, i. p. 29, pi. 3. ff. 7, 8 ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Schmett., Koct. f. 82. 

 Hadena ochrostigma, Ev. Bull. Mosc. Soc. 1842, iii. p. 545 ; Herr.-Scluiff. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 165, 166. 

 Noctua extensa, Ev. Faun. Volg.-Ur. p. 231 (1844). 



Head and ttorax blue-grey mixed with black-brown ; tegulte 

 with medial blackish line ; patagia edged with black ; tarsi with 

 whitish rings; abdomen whitish thickly irrorated with dark brown 

 or dorsally suffused with fuscous. Fore wing blue-grey irrorated 

 with brown ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line double, filled in with blne-grcy, waved from costa to sub- 

 median fold; antemedial line douljlo, excurved in interspaces, bent 

 inwards in cell and angled inwards on vein 1 \ chiviform defined 



