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with, brown, the terminal area fuscous ; an indistinct pale line near 

 termen between veins 5 and 1 ; cilia ochreous white ; the under- 

 side grey irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunule, curved 

 postmedial line, and diflPused subterminal band. 



Ab. microdoa. Much darker. 



Hnb. France, Pyrenees ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; 

 Austria, Styria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Leech 

 Coll., Dombreson, Frey Coll. ; Spain, Aragon ; S.W. Russia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Sarawschan ; E. Turkestan, Kashgar ; Mongolia, 

 Urga ; Tibet, Kuku-jS'or. Exp. 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 225. 



Dark bluish with two lateral yellow stripes. Food-plants, Hij^po- 

 crepis comosa and Coronilla minima. 7. 



*1155. Scotogramma isoloma. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 3.) 



Mamestra isoloma, Piing. Iris, 1903, p. 286, pi. vi. f. 2. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; 

 teguloB with dark lines at middle and near tips ; patagia with some 

 black scales near upper edge ; abdomen grey-brown mixed with 

 fuscous. Fore wing grey-brown, suffused with reddish brown 

 especially on medial and terminal areas, the costa darker ; the 

 veins with dark streaks ; the subbasal line represented by two very 

 oblique black strigse below cell ; an oblique black striga above 

 inner margin before the autemedial line which is obsolete on costal 

 area, then waved; the median nervure and veins 4, 3, 2 defined by 

 whitish streaks from antemedial to subterminal line ; claviform 

 very elongate, brown defined by black and with pale streak in 

 middle ; orbicular and reniform small and very narrow, brown 

 with greyish annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, 

 the latter bar-shaped ; postmedial line very indistinct, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved to upper angle of cell, angled outwards 

 at vein 5, and bent inwards to lower angle of cell, then erect, some 

 pale points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line prominent, 

 whitish, strongly defined on inner side by dentate blackish marks 

 below costa and at middle, angled outwards at vein 7, and dentate 

 to termen at veins 4, 3 ; a fine terminal line and line through the 

 cilia. Hind wing pale, uniformly suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the cilia pale ; the underside pale, suffused and irrorated with 

 fuscous brown, especially on costal area and terminal half. 



Hah. W. Turkestan, Sarawschan, type t in Coll. Piingeler. 

 Exp. 40 millim. 



1156. Scotogramma submedianata, n. sp. (Plate LXXIX. fig. 4.) 



5 . Head and thorax grey tinged with brown and with a few 

 black scales ; tegulse with medial black line ; metathoracic crest 

 fuscous ; abdomen brownish white, the basal crest blackish. Fore 



