152 K0CTC1DJE. 



line at middle. Hind wing grey suffused with reddish brown ; a 

 faint discoidal lunule ; cilia white tinged with ochreous at base ; 

 the underside white, the costal area irrorated with brown ; a brown 

 discoidal lunule filled in with white, curved postinedial line and 

 subterminal brown spot below vein 2. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll.; Hungary; Switzer- 

 land ; N. Italy ; Pussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta; Armenia ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exp. 34-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 118 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 328, pi. 225. f. 3. 



Pale yellowish green ; rather broad dorsal and narrow subdorsal 

 pale yellow or whitish lines ; spiracular line pale yellow ; head 

 yellow marked with black. Food-plants : Poplar and Aspen, 

 between leaves spun together. 4-5. 



Genus MERISTIS. 



Type. 



Mcristis, Hiibn. Verz, p. 239 (1827) trigrammica. 



Grammcsia, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 151 (1829) trigrammica. 



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

 middle of frons and broadly scaled, the 3rd short, upturned ; f'rons smooth ; 

 eyes large, round ; antennas of male serrate; thorax clothed with hair and hair- 

 like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia? moderately 

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base and lateral fringes 

 of hair but without crests. Fore wing rather broad, the apex rectangular, the 

 termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of 

 cell , 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 

 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from ujjper angle; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



4496. Meristis trigrammica. 



Noctua trigrammica, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 408 (1767); Esp. Schmett. 



iv. pi. 123. f. 6; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 195. 

 Noctua trilinea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 216; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 103, pi. 107. f. 2; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 152. 

 Noctua quercus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 214 (1781). 

 Noctua notacula, Fabr. Mant. Iii9. ii. p. 138 (1787). 

 Phalana quercicola, Gmel. Ed. Syst. Nat. 1, 5, p. 2535 (1788). 

 Noctua bilinea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 217(1802); Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 152; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 398. 

 Grammesia ohscura, Tutt, Brit. Noct. i. p. 142 (1891). 

 G rammesia fringsii, Schultz, Soc. Ent. xiii. p. 153 (1899). 



Head and thorax ochreous white mixed with rufous ; palpi brown 

 at sides ; abdomen whitish ochreous. Fore wing whitish ochreous 

 irrorated with rufous ; subbasal line brown, slightly waved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line fine, brown, slightly bent inwards 

 to costa and incurved above vein 1 ; medial line stronger, slightly 

 angled outwards below costa and oblique below vein 1 ; postmedial 

 line fine, brown, slightly angled outwards below costa and incurved 

 below vein 4; a fine waved brown terminal line; cilia reddish 



