1 1 2 NOCTUIDJE. 



vein 1 ; antomcdial line waved ; claviforra well-develoi)ed, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reaiform large, defined by black, the former 

 grey, rather quadrate, the latter with brow^n centre and grey 

 annulus ; a diil'used, slightly waved medial line ; postmcdial line 

 dentate and produced to a double series of points on the veins, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4, some white 

 jjoints on costa beyond it ; subterniinal line whitish, defined on 

 inner side by dark maj-ks below costa at middle and inner margin, 

 angled outw'ards at vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal scries of black lunules. Hind wing almost uniformly 

 sufl'used with reddish brown, leaving slight white s])ots on termen 

 at vein 2 and submedian fold ; cilia white ; the underside white 

 irroratcd with brown, a discoidal lunulc, curved postmedial line and 

 diffused postmedial band. 



Ab. 1, obscurata. Smaller and darker. — Amurland. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Prey Colls.; Austria, Frcy Coll.; IS". Italy ; Eossia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll., Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. SinERiA, Kentei, Amurland. Exp. 48-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 85 ; Earrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. KiO, pi. 154. f. 2. 



Pale reddish brown, finely freckled with black and white ; dorsal 

 line slender, whitish, black-edged ; head brown. Pood-plants : 

 Birch, Vaccinium, grasses, etc. 9-5. 



1282. Folia latex. (Plate LXXXI. fig. 12.) 



Jplecf a latex, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 78 (1852); SmitJi, Cat. Noct. N. Am. 



p. 121. 

 Apatnea demissa, Wlk. xi. 728 (1857). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark brown and black ; frons 

 with black band ; tegula) with black medial line ; dorsal crest 

 blackish ; tarsi with blackish rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 brown, the dorsal crests small and dark. Pore wing grey-white 

 irrorated with brown and black, the veins streaked in places with 

 black ; an indistinct waved subbasal line, bent inwards above vein 

 1, a patch of black suffusion beyond it from costa to median 

 nervure ; a double, waved, oblique antemedial line, the inner line 

 indistinct ; claviform well-developed, rather indistinctly defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform large, rather incompletely defined by 

 black, the former rather oblique elliptical, and approximated to the 

 latter, which has its centre defined by brown and is tinged with 

 blood-red on inner side and sutrusod by a brown shade on inner 

 side of postmedial line, running obliquely from middle of costa to 

 postmedial line at vein 2 ; an indistinct, oblique, waved medial line 

 from cell to inner margin ; postmedial luie rather indistinctly 

 double, dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; sublerraiiuil line 

 defined by the area beyond it being rather darker, angled inwards 

 at discal and submedian folds, outwards at vein 7, and excurved at 



