520 NOCTUID^. 



before middle ; a short white streak on end of median nervure with 

 a slight hook on discocellulars ; a black point in lower angle of 

 cell ; the veins of terminal half with slight white streaks, a more 

 prominent streak on vein 4, the interspaces with fine black streaks ; 

 an obliquely curved postmedial series of black points on veins 7-1 ; 

 a terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline white, 

 the termen tinged with brown ; cilia white, with fine brown line 

 near base ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas down 

 to vein 2 irrorated with brown. 



Hah. U.S.A., Arizona, Cochise Co., Wilgus, 1 S , Prescott (^Mnze), 

 1 S , Huachuca Mts., 1 cJ , 1 ? j Chiricahua Mts., 1 c? • Eccj)- 36 

 millim. 



1889. CirpMs velutina. 



Leucania velutina, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1846, iii. p. 87, pi. 2. f. 5 ; Herr.-SchafF. 

 Eur. Scbmett., JSToct. ff. 362-3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 192. 



Head and thorax grey -brown mixed with fuscous ; abdomen 

 brownish grey with a slight rufous tinge towards extremity, the 

 ventral surface irrorated with black. Pore wing brownish grey, 

 the costal area irrorated with black ; the veins whitish ; the inter- 

 spaces suffused with black except costal and inner areas and a 

 postmedial dentate band ; a black streak above base of inner margin ; 

 a pale streak in submedian fold to origin of vein 2 defined by 

 blackish above and below ; a diffused black streak in lower end of 

 cell ; the postmedial line represented by small diffused black marks 

 in the interspaces between veins 7 and 1, incurved below vein 4, 

 and with a grey band beyond them forming dentate marks defining 

 the veins, longest on veins 7, fi, 4, 3, 2, the subterminal line being 

 represented by some dentate blackish marks on outer edge of grey 

 baud ; some black points on termen. Hind wing greyish, uniformly 

 suffused with fuscous ; the underside grey, tinged with brown and 

 irrorated with black, especially on costal and terminal areas, an ill- 

 defined curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Russia, Urals, 2 d^ , 2 ? , Zeller Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; 

 "W. TuEKESTAN, Issyk-Kul ; E. Turkestan, Thian Shan Mts. ; 

 Mongolia, Urga, Changai Mts.; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri. 

 Exp. 44 milHm. 



1890. Cirphis comma. 



JS'ocfua comma, Linn. Faun. Suec. ii. p. 316(1861) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 83, 

 pi. 106. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 73; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 192. 



Noctua turhida, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 617 (1827). 



Kochia congener, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 618 (1827). 



Leucania nigrofasciata, Hmpsn. Motbs Ind. ii. p. 279 (1894). 



Lencania rliodocomma, Piiug. Iris, xiii. p. 120 (1900). 



Head and thorax pale grey-brown tinged with rufous ; tegulae 

 with dark medial line ; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; abdomen brownish ochreous, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale olive-brown with a reddish 

 tinge ; the veins whitish ; the costal area whitish sparsely irrorated 



