SCOTOGRAMMA. 



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Nnctua saucia, Esp. Rclimott. iv. pi. 152. f. 5 (1786). 



Hadeiia treitschkii, Boisd. Ann. Soc. Linn. Paris, 1827, p. Ill, pi. G. f. 2 ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 40, pi. 103. f. 1 ; Herr.-Schaff. Scbmett. Eur., Noct. 



ff. 68, 69 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. 

 Noctua treitschkei, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 850 (1827). 

 Nnctua pugnax, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 726, 727 (1827). 

 Noctua fa'rkasii, Treit. Sclimett. Eur. x. 2, p. 74 (1835). 

 Hadena intermissa, Wlk. si. 587 (1857). 

 Apamea inquieta, Wlli. xi. 730 (1857). 

 Hadena albifusa, Wlk. xii. 753 (1857). 



Apamea glaucovaria., Wlk. Can. Nat. & G-eol. v. p. 255 (1860). 

 Mamestra canescens, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 233 (1878); id. 2nd 



Yarkand Mission, p. 9, pi. 1. f. 13. 

 Mamestra oregonica, Grrote, Can. Ent. xiii. p. 230 (1881). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; tegulae with medial 

 black line, patagia edged by some black scales above ; tarsi banded 

 black and white ; abdomen pale ochreous mixed with brown. 

 Fore wing grey, suffused and irrorated with pale reddish 

 brown ; a double, waved subbasal line from costa to vein 1 ; 

 a double, oblique, waved antemedial line ; claviform small to 

 large, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by 



Fig. 9. — Scotogramma trifolii, ^. 



blackish, the former rounded or oblique elliptical, the latter ex- 

 tending to below cell and with its lower part suffused by fuscous ; 

 an indistinct irregular medial line oblique from costa to vein 2 ; 

 postmedial line double, dentate, bent outwards below costa, ex- 

 curved to vein 4, then incurved ; the veins of terminal area slightly 

 streaked with fuscous ; subterminal line defined by rufous on inner 

 side and usually with some small dentate dark marks before it at 

 middle, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen on veins 4, 

 3, the area beyond it rather darker ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia intersected with whitish. Hind wing whitish, the 

 veins and inner area tinged with pale reddish brown, the terminal 

 area suffused with fuscous ; the underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with fuscous, a small discoidal lunule and 

 postmedial series of striae on the veins, 



Ab. 1. farcasi. Fore wing darker and more variegated. 



Ab. 2. oregonica. Greyer; fore wing more thickly irrorated 

 with pale brown. 



Ab. 3. treitschei. Fore wing with the medial part of subterminal 

 line defined by prominent dentate black marks on inner side. 



Ab. 4. albifusa. Fore wing tinged with rufous and with white 



