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noctuid.e. 



red-brown tinged with grey, the veins streaked with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line red defined by yellow on outer side, angled outwards 

 on subcostal and median nervures, incurved in cell and ending on 

 vein 1, a yellow point beyond it in cell ; antemedial line double, 

 red filled in with yellow, incurved in submedian interspace and 

 excurved above inner margin ; claviform rounded, yellow defined by 

 red ; orbicular and reniform yellow defined by red-brown and with 

 some red irroration in centres, the former round, the latter some- 

 what angled inwards on median nervure and with its centre defined 

 by red-brown ; a rather diffused red medial line oblique below 

 submedian fold and ending at antemedial line ; postmedial line 





Fig. 8. — Xanihacia flavago, <$ . \. 



double filled in with yellow, the inner line minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique and somewhat sinuous below vein 4, 

 some yellow points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line red, 

 incurved below costa, at discal fold and below vein 3; a fine red- 

 brown terminal line ; cilia red-brown tinged with greyish. Hind 

 wing pale yellow, the veins red-brown ; a faint red-brown discoidal 

 lunule. sinuous postmedial line, diffused subterminal band and fine 

 terminal line ; cilia yellow tinged with rufous at base ; the 

 underside slightly irrorated with red-brown, the costal area 

 suffused with red, the postmedial line more diffused, straight 

 and oblique. 



Ab. 1. cinarea. Fore wing pale yellow or reddish grey, the 



stigmata almost obsolete, a dark patch between orbicular and 



reniform, the terminal area of the ground-colour or violet-brown 



without pale apical patch ; hind wing whitish or greyish without 



markings. — Algeria. 



Hab. .Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 



Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; (Switzerland ; 



? Corsica; Italy; Algeria; Sweden; .Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; 



Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 34- 46 



millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 110; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 75, pi. 193. 



f. 2. 



Ochreous whitish to pale brownish, sometimes tinged with 



pink ; warts large, black ; head yellow-brown ; thoracic plate 



dark brown. Food-plants : stems of Carduus, Arctium, Vtr- 



bascum, &c. 5-8. 



