SIDERIDIS. 441 



1780. Sideridis evideus. 



Noctua evidens, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 369 (1827) ; Diip. Lep. Fr. 

 vii. p. 457, pi. 128. f. 6, & Suppl. iii. pi. 39. f. 2 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 193. 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; abdomeu yellowish tinged with 

 rufous. Fore wing rufous suffused with whitish, the veiuti rufous ; 

 subbasal line rufous, angled outwards below costa and on median 

 nervure, from costa to submedian fold ; autemcdial line oblique, 

 waved ; claviform moderate, defined by rufous ; orbicular and reni- 

 form defined by rufous, the former round ; a slightly waved medial 

 shade, oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line 

 minutely waved, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, 

 then oblique ; subtermiual line formed by somewhat dentate rufous 

 marks, diffused on inner side towards costa, slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine waved terminal line. 

 Hind wing ochreous suflPused with rufous, a diffused fuscous sub- 

 terminal band ; the underside paler, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with purplish red, a small discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Germany, Bohemia, Leech Coll. ; Atjsteia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Hungary, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; IItjssia, Crimea, Urals ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 36 millim. 



1781. Sideridis normani. 



Perigrapha normani, Grote, Can. Ent. vi. p. 115 (1874) ; id. Can. Ent. 

 vii. p. 227, pi. i. f. 13 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 201. 



Head and thorax red-brown, the hairs tipped with grey ; sides 

 of palpi and frons blackish; patagia with a few large black scales 

 on upper edge ; abdomen ochreous whitish slightly irrorated with 



Fig. 122. — Sideridis normani, cJ . \. 



black. Fore wing rufous sparsely irrorated with black, the inner 

 and postmedial areas more or less greyish with rufous striation ; 

 subbasal line indistinct, dark defined by grey on outer side, from 

 costa to submedian fold; antemedial line defined by grey on inner 

 side, obli(iuc and slightly curved ; orbicular and reniform largo, with 

 grey annuli, the former rounded, the latter with some fuscous in its 

 lower part ; postmedial line slightly defined by grey on outer side, 

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

 pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal lino very indistinct, 



