POLTA. 95 



obsolete. The substigmatal band shows faintly, broad, pale, its edges 

 ■whitish ; subventral region ajid feet pale, without the dark dots. 

 Tubercles blackish. Cervical shield darkened, not chitinized. 

 A general feeder, hiding on the ground. — H. G. D. 



1256. Polia w-latinum. 



Noctua w-latinum, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 492 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 1.36. f. 2. 

 lioctim genistcB, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 355 (1792); Scriba, Beitr. iii. 



p. 241. pi. 15. ff. 13, 14 (1793); Hiibn.Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 611, 612; 



Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 285. pi. 91. f. 1 ; Steph, 111. Brit. Ent., Ilau&t. ii. 



p. 183; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1.57. 

 Phalmia dives, Donov. Brit. Ins. x. p. 71, pi. 352 (1801). 

 Noctua rectilinea, Hew. Lep. Brit. p. 189 (1809). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with purplish brown ; frons 

 with black bar ; teguloe with black medial line ; tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen grey mixed with brown, the dorsal crests with dark 

 tips, tl'O anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey-white with 

 slight brown irroration ; a sinuous black streak below base of cell 

 with some rufous below it ; subbasal line represented by two dark 

 striae from costa ; the antemedial line double, waved, strongly 

 excurved below cell ; the medial area suffused with bright rufous 

 from costa to submedian fold ; the claviform broad, defined by black 

 and with black streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, greyish defined by black, the former round, the 

 latter with some brown in its lower part; an indistinct irregular 

 medial line ohlicjue from costa to vein 2 ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line indistinct, dentate, and produced to slight black streaks 

 interrupted by white points on the veins, bent outwards below costa 

 and incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line white, slightly defiiied by rufous on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, where 

 there are two small dentate black marks on its inner side, the area 

 heyond it brown except at apex, with black streaks in the inter- 

 spaces ending in terminal lunules ; cilia intersected with white. 

 Hind wing ochreous white suffused with brown, especially towards 

 termen ; the cilia ochreous white with a brown line through them ; 

 the underside with the costal and terminal areas irrorated with 

 brown and the apex tinged with purplish, a small discoidal spot 

 and sinuous postmedial and subterminal more or less prominent 

 lines. 



Hab. Eritaix, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zcller 

 & Frey ColLs. ; Spain ; Italy ; Scandinavia, Lapland, Leech Coll. ; 

 Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta,Zeller Coll. ; Armenia; Persia ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai, Issyk-kul; E. Tur- 

 kestan, Hi; E.Siberia. £'.r/?, 44-46 millim. 



Larva. Mejr. Brit. Lep. p. 83 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 190, pi. 158. f. 2. 



Hull brown, sometimes greenish or purple-tinged, dorsal and sub- 



