386 NOCTUID^. 



the subterminal line indistinct, double, fjrey, slightly defined by dark 

 suflusiou on inner side and by a prominent double dentate black mark 

 below costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Ilind wing orange ; some brownish 

 sutlusion at base ; a black discoidal lunulo ; a subterminal black 

 band with waved edges, broad towards costa, narrowing towards 

 tornus; the underside with the costal area red suffused with 

 white. 



Ab. 1. comequa. Fore wing darker. 



llah. Bkii'ajn, Scotland, Forres (Salvage), Fngland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Denmark {Doldmann) : Gekmany, Zeller and 

 Frey Colls. ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Spain; Corsica; Scandinavia; 

 llossiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia ^Minor ; Syria, Leech 

 Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Kurdistan ; Turcomania ; Kashmir, Dana 

 {McArtliur), 1 5; Punjab, Sultanpur (G. Youufj), 1 cJ , 2 $ . 

 Exp. 40-4U millini. 



Larva. Meyr. Erit. I,."p p. 101 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 20, pi. 138. f. 3. 

 Greyish ochreous or fuseons ; dnrsal line broad, ochreous-yellow, 

 with tine black edges ; a subdorsal series of dark fuscous oblong 

 marks, with a yellowish-grey line below them ; lateral line pale ; 

 subspiracular line broad, pale ochreous with dark edges ; head ])ale 

 fuscous with dark nuirkings. Food-plants : grasses, Iianuncidus, 

 Primula, etc. 9-4. 



fiOn. Agrotis comes. 



Koriiia orhiina, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 150 (1787), nee Hufii. ; Don. Nat. 



Hist. Brit. Ins. x. p. 4G, pi 343. f. 'l; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. pi. 59. ff. 2-5 ; 



Stepli. HI. Brit. Ent.. JIaust. ii. p. 102; Herr.-SciKitf. IJur. Sehinett., 



N(;el.. f. .■'!28 ; Siaiid. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 137. 

 Nociita !<iihiieijiia, Esp. Scbnielt. iv. pi. 104. if. 1-3 (1786), nee Scbifi'. 

 JS'Octua prouuba minor, Vill. Eiit. Limi. ii. p. 279 (1789). 

 Kuctua comes, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. i. p. 254 (1825) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 521 (1827). 

 iVotVrtrt «(/.s,v/«rt, Treit. Scbmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 256(1825). 

 Isocfaaprosequa, Treit. Scbnutt. Eur. v. 1, p. 256 (1825). 

 Noc/ua hcn/msis, Sp. Scbu. Bergen. Mus. Aarbog, 1901, p. 155, pi. — . f. 2. 



Head and thorax rufous to grey with a reddish tinge ; abdomen 

 ochreous, the lateral and anal tufts and ventral surface tinged with 

 red. Fore wing rufous irrorated with black, to grey irrorated with 

 rufous ; the subbasal line represented by striae from costa ; the 

 antenu'dial line indistinct, double, waved, or obsolete and represented 

 by double strite from costa and points on the veins ; orbicular and 

 reniform with ]iale outlines, the former oblique, open above, the 

 latter with some fuscous in its lower part ; the postmedial hue 

 indistinct, double, with dark points on the veins at its outer side, 

 obli(pie towards costa, slightly incurved in discal fold, incurved 

 below vein 4 ; the subterminal line indistinct, greyish, dehued by 

 slight dark suffusion on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of dark points. Hind wing 

 orange; the costal area tinged with fuscous ; a dark discoidal lunule; 

 a fuscous sul)termiual band with waved edges, wide towards costa, 



