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slightly tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; the under-sifle with the costal and terminal areas 

 slightly irroratcd with brown and tinged wuth purpli^sh pink, a 

 small discoidal spot and curved postmedial series of striae on the 

 veins. 



Ab. 1. variegata. Much paler. — Morocco. 



IJah. Bkitaix, Scotland, England, Leech Coll., Ireland ; France; 

 Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Algiers, Leech 

 Coll.; Morocco, Tangier {Meade- Waldo), 1 $ ; Hussia, Livonia, 

 Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Eithynia: Syria; 

 W. Turkestan, Tura, Issyk-kul, Tarbagatai Mts. ; E. Turkestan, 

 Hi. Exp. 42 millira. 



Larva. Mevr. Brit. Lep. p. 84; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 186, pi. 158. f. 1. 



Green or brown, white-dotted ; warts black ; spiracular line 

 yellow, edged above with dark grey. Food-plants : Urtica, Rumex, 

 Elm, Brassica, etc. 7-9. 



1309. Poliapisi. 



Noctua pisi, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 617 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 167. 

 ff. 1-5; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 429: Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 17, 

 pi. 101. f. 5 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 192 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 157. 



Mamestra spleiidens. Stepli. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 192 (1828). 



Mamestra fallens, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 35. 



Mamestra rukavaarcB, Hoffm. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 127. 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the hairs tipped with grey ; 

 abdomen rufous, the anal tuft often oehreous. Fore wing bright 

 purplish rufous, sometimes partly tinged with yellow, a waved 



Fig. 25. — Poliapisi, (S. \. 



greyish subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ,- a double, waved 

 antemedial line, incurved in cell ; claviform slightly outlined with 

 brown ; orbicular and reniform large, incompletely defined by brown, 

 the former round, the dark medial shade passing between them ; 

 postmedial line defined by greyish on outer side, minutely waved, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and strongly 

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

 line yellowish white, ])rominent, especially in discal and submedian 

 folds, where it has dark marks on its inner side, angled outwards at 

 vein 7, dentate at veins 4, 3, then incurved ; cilia with two pale 



lines through them. 



Hind wing yellowish white tinged with 



