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NOCTUID^. 



Noctua mm-atrum, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 112. 

 Orthosia goihiciiia, Hern-SohaflF. Schmett, Eur. ii. p. 196, Noct. fiP. 125, 126 



(1845). 

 Tmniocampa askoldensis, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 496 (1892). 



Head and thorax purplish red-brown mixed with grey ; palpi 

 brown at sides ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen pale rufous with 

 some grey below. Fore wing greyish almost entirely suffused with 

 purplish red-brown ; snbbasal line only represented by black striae 

 from costa and cell; antcmodial line oblitjue, waved, defined by 

 greyish on inner side ; claviform only defined by a black fascia from 



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Fig. 113. — Monima (jiilhica, J. \. 



its extremity to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with 

 whitish annuli, the former oblique elliptical, open above, the cell 

 before and between them and below the orbicular filled in -with 

 black ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely 

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

 some pale points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line grey defined bv 

 brown on inner side, forming small dentate marks at middle, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing yellowish suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia paler; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dis- 

 coidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. asholdnisis. More violaceous grey. — Amur ; Japan. 



Ab. 2. ijothicina. jfore wing with the black markings absent, 

 the cell filled in with olive-brown. — Scotland: Scandinavia; Finland; 

 Tarbagatai Mts. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, Forres {Salvage), England (DouUedaj/), 

 N. Wales (Salvage) ; France ; Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; N. Spain ; JNT, and Cenxr. Italy, Leech Coll. ; 

 Scandinavia; Finland, Zeller and Frey Colls.; Russia, Livonia, 

 St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals; S'.E. Turkey, Leech Coll.; 

 \V. Turkestan, Tarbagatai Mts. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Amurland, 

 Ussuri; Japan, Gifu (Prger), 2 $ . E.vp. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyrick, Brit. Lep. p. 75; Barrett, Lcp. Brit. v. p. 189, pis. 207 & 

 208. f. 8. 



Light green with numerous pale yellow dots ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale yellowish or whitish ; spiracular line very broad, whitish, 

 dark -edged above ; head light green. Food-plants : Oak, Saliiv, 

 hawthorn, etc. 5-7. 



