2S8 noctuid^:. 



represented by a double series of faint dark points on veins 6 to 1, 

 oblique below vein 4 ; a slight pale line at base of cilia. Hind 

 wing whitish faintly tinged with rufous especially on termen, the 

 cilia rather paler ; the underside wbitish, tbe costal area tinged 

 with rufous, a fine sinuous brown terminal line from apex to 

 vein 2. 



Ab. 1. hellmanni. Fore wing ochreous whitish tinged and irro- 

 rated with brown and with hardly any rufous tinge. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Holland ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Sweden ; N.W. Russia, Urals ; W. 

 Turkestan, Issyk-kul ; AV. Siberia, Altai ; Tibet, Amdo. Exp. 

 26-30 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 121 ; Barrett, Lep. Bvit. v. p. 108, pi, 198. f. 1. 



Yellowish white or reddish, the ventral surface white ; lateral 

 line shining white ; spiracles black ; head yellow-brown. Food- 

 plant, in stems of Calamagrostis ejngeios. 6. 



4692. Arenostola pygmina. 



Noctua pygmina, Haw. Prod. Lep. Brit. p. 13 (1802), non descr. ; id. Lep. 



Brit. p. 176 (1809). 

 Noctua fulva, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 496 (1818) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



vii. pt. 1, p. 87, pi. 106. f. 4; Frr. Neue Schmett, pi. 501. f. 1 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 190. 

 Nonagriajlma, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 351, pi. 32. f. 4 (nee Hiibn.). 

 Noctua extrema, Herr.-Scnaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 332-3 & 337 (nee 



Hiibn.). 

 'Noctua hellmanni, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 339 (nee Ev.). 

 Tapinostola concolor, Tutt, Eut. Month. Mag. xxv. p. 52 (nee Guen.) ; id. 



Ent. Eec. iv. p. 72, pi. O. f. 2. 

 Tapinostola transversa, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 190 (1901). 



Head and thorax whitish tinged with rufous ; abdomen whitish 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the costal edge whitish, the veins 

 with slight brown streaks ; traces of a curved double series of dark 

 points on the veins. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; 

 cilia white, yellowish at base. Underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, the disk of fore wing suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing pale ochreous, the postmedial line entire and 

 dentate, the medial fascia strong. — Algeria. 



Ab. 2. extrema, H.-S., 337 = concolor, Tutt (nee Guen.). Fore 

 wing with the ground-colour ochreous white. 



Ab. 3. fulva. Fore wing redder. 



Ab. 4. transversa. Fore wing browner, the ante- and postmedial 

 lines dark and entire. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France 'Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. : Hungary ; Swttzeklan ; Spain, Bilbao ; Sicily ; 

 Sweden • Finland ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Esthonia, Frey 

 Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan, 

 Hi ; E. Siberia, Amur. Exp. 26-28 millim. 



