roLT.v. 141 



the underside grey irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot, 

 curved postmedial line, and subterminal band. 



Ab. latenai. Much darker, the fore wing wholly suffused with 

 fuscous. 



Hah. Britai:n-, Scotland, England, Leech Coll. ; France, Pyrenees, 

 Gavarnie {Mrs. NkliolJ) ; German r, Zellcr & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; 

 Switzerland, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls.; Spain, Canales {Chap- 

 man) ; N. Italy ; KussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Arjirnia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk-kul: W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi; Kashmir, 

 Goorais Valley {Leech), 1 c? . Exp. 32-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 82; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 197, pi. 159. f. 1. 



Pale grey-brown ; a dorsal series of conjoined blackish spots 

 edged with white ; spiracular line darker ; lateral and subspiracular 

 lines less distinct. Food-plant, roots of Taraxacum. 5. 



131G. Polia glauca. 



Nocfua glauca, Kleem. Beitr. Ins. i. pi. 48. ff. 1-7 (1792); Hiibii. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 410; Dup Lep. Fr. vi. p. 322, pi. 92. f. 7 ; Steph. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 18o ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 158. 

 Noclna apcrta, Geyer, Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 800 (1827). 

 Noctua lapjio, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 255, pi. llfi. f. 3 (1827). 

 Hadena qnadriposita, Zett. Ins. Lapp. p. 939 (1810). 

 Hadcna farJcasii, Herr.-Schatf. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 390 (1845), noc 



Treit. 

 Mamestra taunensis, Fuclis, Jbrb. Nas.s. lii. p. 133 (1899\ 

 Hadena poliostigma, Hmpsta. Muth.s Ind. ii. p. 201 (1894). 



Head and thorax grey, more or less mixed with black-brown ; 

 tegulse with medial black line ; frons Avith black bar ; tarsi ringed 

 with black ; abdomen dark brown slightly mixed with grey, the 

 dorsal crests black. Fore wing purplish grey, more or less com- 

 pletely suffused with brown and black ; subbasal line black, waved, 

 from costa to submedian fold, defined by grey on cuter side ; 

 antemedial line double, waved ; claviform well developed, whitish 

 defined by black and with two black streaks from it to postmedial 

 line ; orbicular and reuiform whitish, with fuscous centres and 

 defined by black, the former round ; postmedial line defined by 

 white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then lunulate, 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points bevond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white defined by black on inner side and by dentate 

 black marks below costa and at middle, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia intersected with white. Hind wing uniform dull reddish 

 brown or with the interspaces of basal half whitish ; the cilia 

 white at tips ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line, 



Ab. 1. aperta. Darker. 



Ab. 2. taunensis. Fore wing suffused with black. 



Ab. 3. quadriposita. Much greyer. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, England,' Ireland, Leech Coll. ; E.France; 



