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NOCTUID^. 



reniform defined by black and with slight fuscous centres, the 

 former round, open above, the latter open above and below, some 

 fuscous suffusion in cell before and between the stigmata and 

 beyond the reniform ; the postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the sub- 

 terminal line ill-defined, diffused, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle : a terminal series of small black lunules. 

 Hind wing pale ochreous brown, darker towards termen ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; cilia pale ; the underside greyer irrorated with 

 brown, a small dark discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku-noor, 1 S , Amdo. Exp. 40 millim. 



1050. Mythimna leucographa. 



Koctna leucographa. Seliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 83 (1775) ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 411, 572 ; Dup. Hist. 2fat. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 440, 



pi. 39 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 153. 

 JSioctua lepetitli, Boisd. Ic. Lep. d'Eur. pi. S3, f. 2 (1832). 

 Orthosia amicta, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1847, p. 527, pi. 8. f. 3. 



Head and thorax bright rufous, some of the hairs tipped with 

 grey ; abdomen greyish brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface 

 bright rufous. Fore wing bright rufous, slightly irrorated with 

 grey; a grey subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; the 

 antemedial line indistinct, waved, slightly defined by grey on inner 



Fig. \0b.~ Mythimna leucographa, ^ . \. 



side ; traces of a small greyish claviform ; orbicular and reniform 

 with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by fuscous, the former 

 round, a diftused waved medial shade passing- between them ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to grey points on the veins, 

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

 incurved ; the subterminal line greyish, slightly angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker ; 

 some terminal dark points. Hind wing j^ale reddish suffused with 

 brown ; the underside whitish, irrorated with rufous especially on 

 costal area, a small discoidal spot and postmedial line excurved at 

 middle. 



Ab. 1. amicta. Head, thorax, and fore wing suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Bab. Britain ; France ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll.; Denmark; Russia, Finland, Livonia, 1 J ; Eumelia ; 

 Amurland. E.V2). 34-38 millim. 



