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slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then inwardlv 

 obli(iue, minutely dentate and produced to short streaks on the 

 veins, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line fine, 

 white, defined on inner side by a prominent dark rufous shade 

 except towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate on 

 veins 4, 3. Hind wing ochreous suffused with fuscous brown, the 

 basal and inner areas paler ; the cilia ochreous, sometimes tinged 

 with pi'rplish pink; the underside with the costal and terminal 

 areas suti'used with red, a small discoidal lunula and curv^ed post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Russia, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Ecjielia ; E. Sibbeia, Amurlund, 1 $ , Ussuri ; Corea. 

 Exj). 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Streckfuss, Ent. Nachr. vi. p. 279. 



Ground-colour very variable, pale brassy or yellowish green to 

 blackish or dark olive-green, thickly irrorated with white points; 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines formed of larger white dots ; lateral line 

 yellow or white, with the black-edged white spiracles on it ; the 

 ground-colour darker above lateral line and on each side of sub- 

 dorsal line ; each somite with four dorsal black dots, forming straight 

 lines on thoracic somites, on medial somites triangular marks, and 

 on terminal somite a quadrate mark, each somite also with two 

 dots above and below lateral line ; head brownish or yellowish. 

 Food-plants : grass, Humex, Plantatjo. Differs from M. oleracea in 

 the lateral stripe being broader, sharply defined below, and usually 

 more yellow ; the cervical shield without the four black dots. 



1308. Polia oleracea. 



Nocfua oleracea, Linn. Svst. Nat. x. p. .517 (1858); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. IG.'). IF. 4-8; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 20, pi. lUl. f . 6 ; Sleph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Hausl. ii. p. 193 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. l.o7. 

 Noctiia spijiacics, Bork. Eur. Si-hniett. iv. p. 454 (1792). 

 Mamestra variegata, Aust. Le Nat. iii. p. 142 (ISrfo). 



Head and thorax rather dull red-brown slightly irrorated with 

 white ; tarsi ringed with Avhite ; abdomen ochreous sutt'used with 

 brown. Fore wing rather dull red-brown ; the veins and costal 

 area irrorated with white ; a small white tuft at base ; faint traces 

 of a waved white subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; an 

 indistinct antemedial line excurved in interspaces and angled in- 

 wards on median nervure and vein 1 ; claviform slightly defined by 

 rufous ; orbicular small, irregularly rounded, with whitish annulus ; 

 reniform indistinctly defined by brown, open above, with an orange 

 spot in its upper part ; traces of an oblique medial line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, 

 often produced to a series of white points on the veins, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa subterminal line white, indistinct towards 

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

 cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing yellowish white, 



