427 



1762. Monima incerta. 



Noctua incerta, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 298 (1757) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 201. 

 JS'ocfua instahili.% Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 76 (1776); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 151. f. 3 ; Hubu. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 165 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 130, 



pi. 81. f. 3 ; Steph. III. Brit. Eiit., Haust. ii. p. 140. 

 Noctua trigatta, Esp. Scbuiett. iv. pi. 147. f. 4 (1790). 

 Noctua contracta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 151. f. 2 (1790). 

 Noctua collinita, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 152. f. 6 (1790). 

 Bomhyx nehidosns, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 120 (1803). 

 Bomhyx subsetaccus, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 120 (1803). 

 Bomhyx fiiscatiis, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 122 (1803). 

 Bombyx angustus. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 122 (1803). 

 Tani'ocampa evanida, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) iv. p. 362 (1879). 

 Tceniocampa pallida, Lampa, Ent. Tidskr. 1885, p. 72. 

 TcBniocampa ■pallida. Stand. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1888, p. 32. 

 Taniocarapa pallidior, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 201 (1901). 



Head and thorax rufous more or less strougly mixed with grey ; 

 palpi black at sides ; abdomen grey irrorated Avith brown, the anal 

 tuft and ventral surface tinged with rufous. Fore Aving grey, 

 thickly irrorated and striated Avith brown and more or less strongly 

 suffused with rufous ; an indistinct subbasal line from costa to 

 submedian fold, followed by a dark point in cell ; antemedial line 

 indistinct, slightly sinuous ; orbicular and reniform large, with 

 whitish annuli, the former oblique elliptical, the latter with its lower 

 part filled in with fuscous ; an ill-defined medial shade oblique from 



Fig. 114. — Monima incerta, (^ . \. 



costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 dentate or reduced to a series of minute dark striae on the veins, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; subtcrminal lino 

 whitish, defined by brown on inner side, forming somewluit dentate 

 marks at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved 

 at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing whitish, 

 suffused and irrorated with fuscous brown, especially on terminal 

 area ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 spot and postmedial series of points on the veins. 



Ab. 1. fuscata. Fore Aving almost uniform fuscous. 



Ab. 2. liallvlci. Fore A\'ing paler and greyer. 



Ab. 3. palUdior. Much paler : fore wing grey-Avhitc ; hind wing 

 whitish. 



