170 NOCXUID^. 



grey ; abdomen dark red-brown. Fore wing dark red-brown ; the 

 veins defined by white streaks ; the costa black towards base ; the 

 subbasal line double, black filled in with grey, waved from costa to 

 submedian fold ; the antcmedial line similar, angled outwards 

 below costa and strongly above inner margin ; claviform elongate 

 defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres and 

 grey annuli defined by black, the former produced on outer side ; 

 postmedial line black, defined by grey on outer side, minutely 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved ; the subtermiual line dentate, grey, with a series of 

 dentate black marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of black 

 points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cUia white, with a brown line 

 at base ; the underside grey, with the terminal area sutfused with 

 brown, a black discoidal point and indistinct curved, minutely- 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Hah. Mongolia, Changai Mts., Urga, 1 ,5; Siberia, Kentei. 

 Exp. 38 millim. 



294. Euxoa vestigialis. 



Noctua vestigialis, Eott. Naturf. viii. p. 107 (1776) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 152. 

 Noctua valligera, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2541 (1776) ; Schiff. Wien. 



Verz. p. 80 (1776) ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 150, 478 ; 



Godt. Lep. El-, v. p. 223, pi. 65. ff. 2, 3 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Eiit., Haust. 



hi. p. 118. 

 Noctua clavis, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 63. f. 5 (1782). 

 Noctua trigoiialis, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 75. 1'. 6 (1782). 



cJ . Head and thorax white mixed with pale red-brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides except at extremity ; tarsi banded with black ; 

 abdomen white tinged with pale brown. Fore wing grey-white, 

 sometimes tinged with ochreous or grey-brown, the interspaces 

 streaked with pale red-brown ; the subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa and median nervure, the antemedial 

 line by double stride from costa and a double line from median 

 nervure to inner margin, angled in submedian fold and more 

 strongly above inner margin ; claviform large, elongate, dark brown 

 defined by black : orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and 

 whitish annuli defined by black, the former small, elongate, often 

 conjoined to the latter, which is usually angled inwards on median 

 nervure, some brown in the cell between the stigmata ; the post- 

 medial line minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, angled 

 inwards in discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; the subterminal 

 line dentate at veins 8, 7, 4, 3, defined by dentate black marks 

 before its medial part, and the area beyond it dark ; cilia brown, 

 with a pale line through them. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 terminal area tinged with brown : the underside with distinct 

 discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of points on the veins. 



5 . Darker ; the hind wing wholly suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. Brownish white, with all the markings obsolescent. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Mutzell & Frey Colls. ; 



