rui.JA. 141 



the underside grey irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, 

 curved postmedial line, and subterminal band. 



Ab. laienai. ITuch darker, the fore wing wholly suffused with 

 fuscous. 



H(th. Britain, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; France, Pyrenees, 

 Gavarnie {Mrs. NicTioll) ; German r. Zellcr & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; 

 Switzerland, Zeller, Frey. & Leech Colls.; Spain, Canales {Chap- 

 man)-^ N. Italy; Kussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, 

 Zeller Coll.; Armknia; Asia Minor, Bithynia; W. Tukkestan, 

 Issyk-kul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Tdrkestan, Hi; Kashmir, 

 Goorais Valley {Leech), 1 ^ . Exp. 32-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 82; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 197, pi. LIO. f. 1. 



Pale grey-brown ; a dorsal series of conjoined blackish spots 

 edged with white ; spiracular line darker ; lateral and subspiracular 

 lines less distinct. Food-plant, roots of Taraxacum. 5. 



1316. Polia glauca. 



Nocfita glauca, Kleem. Beitr. Ins. i. p!. 48. ff. 1-7 (1792); Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett, Noct. f. 410; Diip Lep. Fr. vi. p. 322, pi. 92. f. 7 ; Steph. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haiist. ii. p. 185; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1-58. 

 Noctua aperta, Geyer, Eur. Solimett., Noct. f. 800 (1827). 

 Noctua lappa, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 255, pi. 110. f. '6 (1827). 

 Hadena qiiadriposita, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 939 (1840). 

 Hadcna farhadi, Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 390 (1845), iioo 



Troit. 

 Mamedra taunensis, Fuchs, Jhrb. Nas.^. lii. p. 133 (18991. 

 Hadena poliostig ma, Hmpsa. Moths Ind. ii. p. 201 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey, more or less mixed with black-brown ; 

 teguliE with medial black line ; frons with Idack bar ; tarsi ringed 

 with black ; abdomen dark brown slightly mixed with grey, the 

 dorsal crests black. Fore wing purplish grey, more or less com- 

 pletely suffused with brown and blacl< ; subbasal line black, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold, defined by grey on cuter side ; 

 anteraedial line double, waved ; claviform well developed, whitish 

 defined by black and with two black streaks from it to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reniform whitish, with fuscous centres and 

 defined by black, the former round ; postmedial line defined by 

 white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then lunulate, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined by black on inner side and by dentate 

 black marks below costa and at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal scries of small black lunules ; 

 cilia intersected with white. Hind wing uniform dull reddi.sh 

 brown or with the interspaces of basal half whitish ; the cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. aperta. Darker. 



Ab. 2. tiunensis. Fore wing suffused with black. 



Ab. 3. quadripositn. Much greyer. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England, Ireland, Leech Coll.; E, France; 



