606 NOCTUIDiE. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Pranci: (Sand) ; Germany, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; 8witzerlajs'd, Frey Coll. : K. Italy ; 

 Balkan States ; 8. Bussia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; ^Y. Turkestan, 

 Ala-tau. Exp. 3-l:-40 millini. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 107 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 228, pi. 214. f. 2. 



Pinkish brown with suffused dark medial segmental bands; 

 dorsal line obscurely paler ; subdorsal line narrow, interrupted, 

 pale yellow ; spiraeular line brownish, anteriorly yellow ; head 

 pinkish brown with darker markings. Food-plants : Rumex\ 

 Planfar/o, Stellaria, etc. 4-6. 



1052. Mythimna cseciniacnla. 



Noctua ccBcimacula, Scbiff. Wieii. Verz. p. 81 (1776); Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 69, pi. 77 ; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 137 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 178. 

 Noctua millcyrana, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 1.50. f. 1 (1786). 

 Koctua respcrsa, Brahm. Ins. p. 541 (1701). 

 Ammoconia sibirica, Staud. Stett. eiit. Zeit. 1882, p. 37. 



S . Head and thorax grey, the hairs tipped with brown and a 

 few with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen grey mixed with 

 fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with black ; a waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, becoming black below 

 the cell ; a sinuous brown autemedial line angled outwards below 

 the costa and with a black mark on it below the cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, defined by brown, the former elliptical ; an oblique 

 medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the area 

 beyond the cell suffused with brown ; a minutely waved postmedial 

 line defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale dentate subterminal line 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

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

 white slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 ■with brown ; a dark terminal line. Underside of both wings with 

 black discoidal spots. • 



5 . Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white. 



Ab. 1. SlUrica. Paler; the fore wing ochreous or yellowish. — 



Altai. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Italy ; Sicily ; Dalmatia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 6 • Evi>- 42-54 millim. 



1053. Mythimna senex. 



Koctua se«e.r, Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 749-50 (1834) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 

 Folia vetula, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 127 (1840); Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iv. 



p 93, pi. 58. f. 4 (1842) ; Herr.-Scbatf. Schmett. Eur., Noct. f. 108 ; 



Mill. Ic. iii. pi. 146. if. 7-9. 

 Aiimcconia ■incdiorhcnana, Fucbs, Jhrb. Nass. 1892, p. 91. 



S. Head and thorax w^hite mixed with pale brown; palpi 

 blackish at sides; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous 



