100 KOCTUIDiE. 



dentate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the veins beyond it with slight black streaks and -pale 

 points ; subterminal line white or yellowish, indistinct towards 

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

 some dentate dark marks before it at middle and the area bej'ond it 

 dark except at apex ; a terminal series of blackish lunulcs ; cilia 

 intersected by pale colour. Hind wing ochreous suffused with 

 brown, especially on the veins and terminal area ; the underside 

 with the costal area darker, a dark discoidal spot, minutely waved 

 postraedial line, and diffused subterminal line, 



2 . Darker and more uniformly coloured. 



Ab. 1. conjluens. Fore wing dark and nearly uniform in colour. 



Ab. 2. extincta. Dark ; fore wing with yellow marks. 



Hah. BiaxAiN, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; FsAjfCE, Frey 

 Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria, Frey Coll. ; N. Italy ; 

 Scandinavia, Lapland, Leech Coll, ; Russia, Livonia, Sarepta, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Turkey; E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri, Exp. 40 millim. 



Larva. Mcyr. Brit. Lep. p. 84 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 177, pi. 157. f. 1. 



Green or brown dotted with white and freckled with dark grey ; 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines darker, variable; spiracular line ochreons 

 yellow edged above Avith brown or black, below with light reddish. 

 Food-plants : Rumcx, Chenopodium, Plantago, etc. 7-8. 



1263. Polia aliena, 



Nocttia aliena, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Tvoct. f.441 (1827); Staucl. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 157. 

 Mamestra amurensis, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 421 (1892). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish ; frons with 

 dark bar ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing grey-brown slightly suffused 

 with rufous ; a black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line 

 double, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial lino 

 double, waved, more strongly excurved in submedian interspace, the 

 outer line blackish ; claviform slightly defined by black, with a 

 pale patch beyond it before the indistinct waved medial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and greyish annuli, the 

 former round, defined by black, the latter defined on inner side 

 only ; postmedial line double filled in with greyish, dentate and 

 produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line grey, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate to near termen on veins 4, 3 ; the terminal 

 area rather darker ; the veins towards termen streaked with black ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules : a fine grey line at base of 

 cilia, which are intersected with grey. Hind wing ochreous sufFnsed 

 with fuscous brown ; the inner area paler ; the cilia ochreous with 

 a fuscous line through them ; the underside grey irrorated with 

 brown, and the terminal area suffused with brown, a small discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



llah. France, Sand Coll. ; Belgium ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; 



