roLiA. 169 



Coll.; Italy; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Crete; "Rvssix (CJiristopJi) ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Eithynia ; W. Siberia, Altai. 

 E.vj). 34-38 millim. 



Lca-va. Mill. Icones, i. p. 303, i.l. 48. fF. 3-6. 



Dorsal area pale brown, ventral area pale ochreous ; dorsal and 

 lateral lines rufous ; subdorsal line double, almost obsolete; stigmata 

 white ringed with l)lack. Food-plants : Delphinium ajacis and 

 D. staphysagria. 6-8. 



1366. Polia dysodea. 



Noctua dysodea, Sebiff. Wien. Verz. p. 72 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Sohmett., 



Noct. f . 47 ; Dap. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 404, pi. 98. f. 2 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 32. 

 Noctua spinacicB, View. Tab. Verz. Brandenburg, p. 70 (1789). 

 Noctua Jiavicincta minor, Esp. Sehmett. iv. pi. 153. fF. 6, 7 (1790). 

 Noctua chrysozona, Borkh. Eur. Scbmett. iv. p. 264 (1792) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 160. 

 Noctua ramcneulma, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 183 (1809). 

 Mamestra caduca, Herr.-Scbaif. Eur. ' Sehmett. ii. p. 2G6, Noct. f. 484 



(1845). 

 Mamestra innoccns, Staud. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. vii. p. 123, pi. 1. f. JO' 



(1870). 

 Hecatcra ka'ckliiii, Tb. Mieg. Le Nat. xi. p. 181 (1889). 

 Mamestra turhida, Hiif'm. Jbrb. Karnt. xxiv. p. 174 (1897). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown and black ; 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing grey-white thickly 

 irrorated with dark brown, tbe medial area rather darker ; some 

 orange -yellow in submedian fold ; subbasal line with yellow marks 

 on it and defined by white on outer side, waved from costa to 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line oblique, waved, defined by white 

 on inner side and witb yellow marks on it ; claviform moderate, 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black and 

 with some yellow at sides, the former round ; an irregularly waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line defined by "white on outer side, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 white points beyond it on costa ; subterrainal line represented by 

 yellow spots on inner side of irregular brown marks ; a terminal 

 series of slight dark lunules : cilia chequered ochreous and brown. 

 Hind wing pale tinged with brown, the terminal area dark brown ; 

 slight greyish streaks on extremities of veins 2 and 1 ; cilia pale, 

 with a brown line near base ; the underside white, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and 

 waved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. caduca. Fore wing whitish grey without the yellow 

 markings. 



Ab. 2. innoccns. Fore wing whitish grey with slight yelh)w 

 markings, the medial area more prominently dark. — S. Europe, 

 W. & C. Asia. 



Ab. 3. Darker, especially the medial area of foro wing. — 

 Kaslimir. 



