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NOCTtJIDiE. 



clothed with hair only, the pro- and nietathorax with spreading crests ; tibiae 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with rough hair at base and lateral fringes, but 

 without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex not produced, the termen 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 o, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennte of male serrate. 



1652. Eriopygodes imbecilla. 



Nodua imbecilla, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 113 (1794); Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 555 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 363, pi. 33. f. 3, a, b ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 194. 

 Mi/thimna dif^jKirilis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 78 (1816). 

 Mythimna nexa, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 62, pi. 104. f. 4 (1821). 

 Nocttia aliena. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 441 (1827). 

 Nodua alpina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 728, 729 (1827). 



S • Head and thorax bright rufous ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous, the veins rufous ; antemedial line rufous, sinuous, 

 incurved in cell ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniforra with 

 indistinct whitish annulus ; an indistinct medial shade oblicjue 

 from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line single, even, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved; sub- 

 terminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique, straight, 



Fig. 90. — Eriopygodes imbedlla, (^ . 



a dark patch before it on costa with pale rufous points on it ; a 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous ; 

 the underside whitish tinged and irroratcd with rufous, a slight 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



5 . Fore wing deep rufous, the pale reniform prominent. 

 Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; German r ; Switzerland (/S'toMfZwj^fr), 

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Atjstria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Bulgaria, 

 Rilo Dagh {Elwes) ; Scandinavia ; IIussia, Esthonia, Frey Coll., 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai, 

 Ala Tau; Siberia; Mongolia, Urga ; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 c^" • 

 Exp. 28-30 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennoe of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the antemedial line waved impar. 



B. Fore wing witli the antemedial line oblique eiididias. 



