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NOCXUID^. 



defined by brown and its white annulus broken up into spots ; post- 

 medial line whitish, indistinct, somewhat dentate and produced to 

 fuscous and white points on the veins, slightly bent outwards below 

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

 subterminal line white, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; cilia brown, with a series of white points at base. Hind 

 wing white, the veins and termen slightly tinged with brown ; the 

 underside with the costal area slightly irrorated with red. 



Frons with slight vertical ridge ; fore tarsi with long curved 

 claws on the joints. 



Hah. U.S.A., Illinois {Kemp), 1 S ■, Kansas, Colorado. Exp. 38 

 millira. 



1461. Trichoclea albicolon. 



Noct'iia albicolon, Sepp, Ins. ii. pi. 1. ff. 1-9 (1786) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. ff. 542-3; Uup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 272, pi. 117. f. 3; Steph. 111. Erit. 

 Ent., Haust. ii. p. 195, pi. 24. f. 3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 166. 



Hadena cgena, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1853, p. 371. 



Hadena arida, Led. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1855, p. 108, pi. 1. f. 7. 



Mamestra odiosa, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 315 (1895); id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 156. 



Mamestra amydra, Piing. Iris, xiv. p. 182, pi. ii. f. 4 (1901). 



Head and thorax blackish brown slightly mixed with grey ; 

 patagia with some black scales above ; tarsi black with pale rings ; 

 abdomen brown mixed with grey. Fore wing dark yellowish or 

 fuscous brown irrorated with black, the veins irrorated with grey ; 

 subbasal and antemedial lines double, waved, filled in with paler 

 colour, the former extending to submedian fold ; claviform defined 

 by black, short ; orbicular and reniform well-developed, with greyish 

 annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with white 

 points on its outer and lower edges ; an indistinct waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line double filled in with pale colour, dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; some pale points on costa towards apex ; 

 subterminal line more or less broken up into ochreous-white points 

 and defined by small dentate black marks on inner side, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 small black lunules and a series of pale points at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area 

 brown ; cilia yellowish white, sometimes with a dark line through 

 them ; the underside ochreous white irrorated with dark brown, a 

 discoidal lunule and somewhat dentate sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. C(/ena. Fore wing paler, more luteous and even in colour. 



Ab. 2. arida. Fore wing duller and more fuscous in colour ; 

 hind wing more uniform fuscous brown. 



Ab. 3. odiosa. Fore wing dull ochreous brown ; hind wing uni- 

 form fuscous brown. 



Bab. BiUTAiN, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Jutland, Leech 

 Coll. : Germany, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; N. Italy ; Sweden ; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia, 1 S ; Khirgistan ; W. Siberia, 

 1 c?, Altai, 1 6; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk- 



