200 NOCTUID^. 



whitish suffused with fuscous brown, especially on terminal area, 

 more uniformly in female ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a fine dark terminal line. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Pontus, 1 (5,1 $ , Taurus ; Syria, Mardin. 

 Exp., 6 2Q, $ 28 millim. 



1414. Polia albimacula. 



Nnctita albimacula, Borkh. Eur. Sclimett. iv. p. 149 (1792) ; Steph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 137, pi. 19. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 162. 

 Noctiia coinpta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 117 a. f. 7 (1790), nee Schiff. 

 Noctua concinna, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 51 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Ti. p. 359, pi. 95. f. 3. 



Head and thorax reddish olive-brown with white markings ; 

 tegular with white and black medial line ; patagia with white 

 patch edged with black ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown. 

 Fore wing reddish olive- brown ; a white patch on base of costa 

 traversed by the double, waved, black subbasal line and ending at 

 submedian fold, where there is a black lunule beyond it followed by 

 a curved mark above inner margin ; an irregularly waved black 

 antemedial line defined by white on inner side ; claviform incom- 

 pletely defined by black, and with a bidentate white patch beyond 

 it on base of vein 2, extending into the cell on outer side of the 

 orbicular, which is round, white defined by black and with brown 

 centre, and with white mark above it on costa ; reniform with 

 brown centre and white annulus defined by black ; a waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line black defined by white on outer side, dentate, 

 bent outwards below costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, 

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

 defined by small dentate black marks on inner side and some black 

 beyond it in discal fold, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and 

 somewhat dentate at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules defined by white ; cilia brown intersected with white. 

 Hind wing pale suffused with reddish brown, especiallj' on terminal 

 area ; a white spot on vein 2 near termen ; cilia white with brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area suffused with brown, a small 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Switzerland, Leech Coll. ; Hungary, Leech 

 Coll.; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus ; Persia ; W. Siberia, Altai. E,vp. 28-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 77 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 245, pi. 103. f. 3. 



Pale brownish ochrcous ; dorsal line fine, indistinctly pale, 

 traversing a series of blackish spots connected with indistinct 

 V-shaped marks ; supra-spiracular line waved, fuscous, indistinct ; 

 head brown-streaked. Food-plant : seed-capsules of Silene nutans. 

 7-8. 



