140 KOCTUID^. 



by black spots below costa and cell defined by whihe on outer side 

 and a white striga on the black streak ; anteniedial line oblique, 

 waved, defined by white on inner side ; claviform moderate, defined 

 by black ; orhicuhir and reniform large, with brown centres and 

 white annuli incompletely defined by black, the former round ; 

 traces of a waved medial line on inner area ; postmedial line de- 

 fined by white on outer side, dentate, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; subtermiual line white, defined 

 on inner side by a dark mark at costa and dentate black marks 

 from discal fold to inner margin, irregular, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it browner at 

 middle and tcrmen, a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 grey, with a dark line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown, the 

 cilia grej^ with a fuscous line through them ; the underside grey 

 thickly irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal spot and indistinct 

 sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Canada, Alberta, Calgary ; U.S.A., Colorado, 1 c? type. 

 Exp. 34 millim. 



1315. Polia dentina. 



Noctua dentina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 82 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett iv. pi. 127. 



f. 3 (1789); Hiibu. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 408; Dup. Lep. Ft. vi. 



p. 269, pi. 89. f. 6; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. lo9. 

 mctua pleheia, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 19^ (1809); Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 185. 

 Noctua leucostigma, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 198 (1809); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 186. 

 Noctua proxima, Frr. Neue Beitr. Schmett. ii. pi. 104. f. 2 (1836), nee 



Hiibn. 

 Hadcna latenai, Pierret, Ann. Soc. Ent, Fr. 1837, p. 177, pi. 8. f. 3. 

 Noctua hiiaris, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 938 (1840). 



Head and thorax grey raised with black ; tegulaj with black 

 medial line ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish fuscous. 

 Tore wing violaceous grey irrorated with fuscous ; the medial area 

 suffused with fuscous brown ; a black streak in base of submedian 

 fold ; subliasal line represented by double striaj from costa and cell ; 

 some yellow on inner margin near base usually present ; antemediul 

 line double, waved, oblique ; claviform moderate, defined by black, 

 a bidentate whitish patch beyond it below the cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform grey defined by black and with more or le*s developed 

 fuscous centres, the former round ; an indistinct waved medial line; 

 postmedial line double, dentate and produced to short streaks on 

 the veins, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish, 

 often tinged wdth yellow, defined on inner side by small dentate 

 black marks and with some black beyond it at discal fold, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected with white. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, rather darker on terminal area ; cilia 

 yellowish at base, with brown line through them and white tips ; 



