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NOCTtJID^. 



Sarepta; Aemenia ; Asia Mikok, Pontus, Autioch, Mardin ; W. 

 TuEKESTAN, Ferghana. Exp. 36-40 millim. 



Subs]), conspunuta. Frr. Neue Beitr. Schmett. v. p. 82, pi. 430. f. 3 

 (184.n); Ilerr.-Sclmfl'. Eur. Schmett., JS'oct. ff. 463, 470; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 162. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing grey-brown without tlie rufous 

 tinge, the last with the elaviform reduced to a small black mark, 

 the orbicular oblique elliptical, the reniform slightly angled inwards 

 on median ncrvure but not on subcostal nervure. 



Hah. C. and S. Russia, Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; ? E. Siberia ; 

 Punjab, Hunza {Sir M. Conivay), 1 d • 



Larva. WuUscblegel, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 406. 



Pale reddish grey with a dark maculate dorsal stripe, oblique 

 subdorsal marks, and pale lateral lino. Food-plant : Sihne nutans. 

 8-9. 



1411, Polia filigramma. 



Nod ua fili gramma, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. o9(i, pi. 130. f. 4 (1788) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vi. p. 413, pi. 98. f. 5; Herr.-Schaft'. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 465; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 162. 

 Koctua polymifa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 48 (1827), nee Linn. 

 Noduafiavivibica, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Text, p. 171 (1827). 

 Koctua xanthocyanea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fF. 640-1 (1827). 

 Diaiithoecia lutencincta, Embr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1834, p. 382, pi. 8. f . 1 ; 



Mill. Ann. Soc. Cannes, 1878, pi. 3. f. 10. 

 Bicnithoecia xa.nthofusca, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 243. 

 Licmthoecia melanochroa, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 273 (1891). 



Head and thorax reddish ochreous mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 tarsi witli whitish rings ; abdomen grey- brown. Fore wing pale 

 brown, more or less strongly suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 some rufous below base of costa, in base of submedian fold, and 

 above inner margin ; subbasal line ill-defined, double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line waved ; elaviform short, 

 filled in with rufous ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres 

 and rufous annuli defined by black, the former round ; medial line 

 oblique to median nervure, then dentate ; postmedial line strongly 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, some ])ale points beyond it on costa : subterminal line 

 pale, defined by diffuse dentate rufous marks on inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, the ter- 

 minal area darker ; cilia ochreous white, with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas sufiused 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. c^antliocyanea. Head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated 

 wit! 7, ::ite, the ground-colour fuscous and grey without the reddish- 

 brown tinge. 



Ab. 2. luteocincta. Paler and more mixed with white, especially 

 on medial and terminal areas of fore wing. 



Ah. '3. melanochroa. Smaller and darker ; fore wing slightly 

 mixed with white and rufous. — Asia Minor ; W. Turkestan. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. : Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 



