NJiNIA, 



610 



tufts of hair. Fore wing sliurt and broad ; the apes rectangular, the termen 

 crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with 

 veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle ; the termen crenulate and somewhat excised at discal fold. 



A. Fore wing with the veins sti-eaked with white tijpica. 



B. Fore wing with the veins not streaked with white contamhiata. 



lOTl. Naeiiia typica. 



Xoc/ua iyinca, Linn. Svst. Nat. s. p. 518(1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv.pl. 173. 



fr. l-t ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. pi. 90. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. 



p. 166 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. 

 Noctua excusa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 197. ff. 1-3 (1786). 

 Noctua venosa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 61 (1827). 

 Neenia issi/ka, Pllng. Iris, xiii. p. 119 (1900). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey, the tegulse and patagia 

 with a few blackish scales at edges ; tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey-brown, the ventral surface brown irrorated with grey. Fore 

 wiug grey suffused with brown and irrorated with white ; the veins 

 streaked with white ; a double subbasal line filled in with whitish 

 from costa to submedian fold and angled outwards below costa ; a 



, Fig. 111. — Xeenia ti/pica, ^ . \. 



similar minutely waved oblique antemedial line angled outwards 

 below costa and above inner margin ; claviform incompletely defined 

 by black or represented bj' some black scales ; orbicular and reni- 

 forra with brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the 

 former small or well-developed, the latter large, often with black 

 suffusion iu the cell between them and beyond the reniform ; the 

 postmedial line defined by white on outer side, minutely Avaved, 

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

 subterminal line white, with dentate black marks on its inner side, 

 large between veins 4 and (!, angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved 

 below vein 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with 

 a dark line through them. Hind wing fuscous brown ; a dark 



