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KOCTUID.E. 



discoidal luAule and sinuous postmedial line with dark striae at the 

 veins. 



Hah. Kashmir, JN'arkundah (McArtJmr), 1 J" type. ^.rj9. 42 

 miUim. 



] 742. Monima mnnda. 



Mcf.ua mun da, SchiflT. Wien. Verz. p. 76 (1776) ; Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 52. 



f. 6; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 166; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



ii. p. 141 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 

 Noctua gemina, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 705 (1792). 

 Bombyx gcminatus, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 121 (1803). 

 Bombi/x himacidatus, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 121 (1803). 

 Noctua lota, Dup. Hist. Nat. Lep. Fr. vi. p. Ill, pi. 80. f. 3 (1826). 

 Tmniocampa immaculata, Staud. Cat. p. 114 (1871). 



Head and thorax pale rufous to brownish grey ; sides of palpi 

 and Irons black-brown; abdomen ochreous brown. Fore wing 

 pale red-brown to olive-grey, more or less striated with dark brown 

 and irroratcd with black ; traces of a waved subbasal line from 

 costa to submedian fold and of an oblique, waved autemedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large with pale annuli, the former round, 

 the latter sometimes with some fuscous in its lower part; sub- 

 terminal line pale, slightly angled outwai'ds at vein 7 and exeurved 

 at middle, with small black spots on its inner side above and below 

 vein 5, a point below costa and two above inner margin ; a 

 terminal series of minute points. Hind wing ochreous suffused 

 with fuscous brown ; cilia pale, with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal 

 lunule and postmedial series of strife on the veins. 



Ab. 1. immacnlatu. Fore wing without black spots on the 

 subterminal line. 



Ilnb. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller 

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

 llussiA, Leech Coll. ; Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Kiushiu, 1 c? , 

 Yokohama {Jonas, Pnjer, Ilanley), 1 c? , 5 $ . Exp. 40-50 

 millim. 



Lai'va. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 74 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 217, pi. 212. f. 2. 



Pale ochreous, much marked with brown ; tubercular dots white; 

 dorsal line pale, edged with brown ; spiracular line pale, marked 

 with white on somites 4-7 or part of them, edged above by a dark 

 brown or blackish stripe ; hinder edge of somite 12 pale preceded 

 by dark spots ; head marked with brown or black. Food-plants : 

 Oak, birch, poplar, etc. 5-6. 



1743. Monima lizetta. 



Orthosia lizetta. But). A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 167 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 

 ii. p. 30, pi. 30. f. 8. 



Grey with an olive tinge to pale reddish ; sides of palpi and 

 frons black. Fore wing with more or less brown irroration ; 

 traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line represented by points on the veins, costa, and inner 



