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margin ; claviform well developed, rufous defined by brown ; 

 orbicular and reniform with slight white annuli defined by brown, 

 the former oblique elliptical, the latter with its lower extremity 

 produced and prominent ochreous lunule on its outer edge ; an 

 indistinct dentate medial line oblique from costa to vein 2 ; post- 

 medial line double at costa, then defined by greyish on outer side 

 and with double series of black points beyond it on the veins, bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved and oblique below vein 

 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line ochreous 

 defined by rufous on inner side and with the area beyond it blackish 

 except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; 

 a terminal series of slight black luuules ; cilia fuscous brown with 

 fine pale line at base. Hind wing greyish uniformly suffused with 

 brown and slightly tinged with ochreous ; cilia whitish with a 

 brown line through them : the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule and indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Icems. Larger. 



Ab. 2. fibrosa. Fore wing rather paler, the postmedial area 

 whitish except towards costa. 



Hob. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

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

 Sweden ; Russia, Livonia, Urals ; W. Turkestan, Issvk-Kul ; 

 \V. Siberia, Altai, 1 <$ , 2 $ ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 2 d 1 , 1 $, 

 Ussuri ; Japan, Hakodate (Andreives), 1 $ i Tokio (Maries), 1 d , 

 1 g type kevis, Yokohama (Lewis, Fryer), 3 S , - 2 5 Corea, 

 Gensan (Leech), 1 c?,3 2 ; N. China, Wei-ha-wei (Fletcher), 1 5 ; 

 C. China, Chekiang (Fryer), 1 S ; ? Assam, Khasis. Exp. 40- 

 48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 135; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 59, pi. 191. f. 1. 



Dark grey-brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines faintly paler; dots 

 blackish; head dark brown ; thoracic plate black; anal plate sur- 

 rounded by a ridge. Food-plants : in stems of Cladium mariscus, 

 Iris jiseudacorus, &c. 5-7. 



Genus APAMEA. 



Apamea, Ocbs. Schinett. Eur. iv. p. 75 (1816), non descr. ; Treit. Type. 

 Schmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 81 (1825) nictitans. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short, blunt ; frons 

 smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male ciliated ; head and thorax 

 clothed with hair and hair-like scales, tegula? produced to a slight dorsal ridge, 

 the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia? moderately fringed with 

 hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests on basal segments and lateral fringes 

 of hair. Fore wing triangular, the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; (> from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



