198 NocruiD^. 



Sarepta ; Armenia; Asia IMinok, Pontus, Autioch, Mardin ; W. 

 TuiuvESTAN, Ferghana, Exp. 36-40 milliin. 



8ubsp. i-onsjmrcata. Frr. Neue Beitr. Sclimett. v. p. 82, pi. 430. f. 3 

 (184;)); lIoi-r.-SehaQ'. Eur. Schmelt., Koct. ff. 463, 47U; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 162. 



Head, thorax, and fore wing grey-brown without the rufous 

 tinge, the hist witli the claviform reduced to a small black mark, 

 the orbicular oblique elliptical, the reniform slightly angled inwards 

 on median norvure but not on subcostal nervurc. 



llah. C. and 8. lIussiA, Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; ? E. Siberia ; 

 PuxJAB, Hunza {Sir M. Conu'tiy), 1 S . 



Larva. Wullscblegel, Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxii. p. 406. 



Pale reddish grey with a dark maculate dorsal stripe, oblique 

 subdorsal marks, and i)ale lateral line. Food-plant : Silene nutans. 

 8-9. 



1411. Polia filigramma. 



Foctua filigramma, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 396, pi. 130. f. 4 (1788) ; Dup. Lep. 



Er. vi. p. 413, pi. 98. f. b ; Ilerr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 465 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 162. 

 Noctua polymifa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 48 (1827), nee Linn. 

 Noduaflavivibica, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Text, p. 171 (1827). 

 Noctua xanthocyanea, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fF. 640-1 (1827). 

 Biavthcecia lutencuicla, Rmbr. Ann. See. Ent. Fr. 1834, p. 382. pi. 8. f . 1 ; 



Mill. Ann. Soc. Cannes, 1878, pi. 3. f. 10. 

 Dianthoicia .ranthofusca, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1841, p. 243. 

 Dicmthoscia melanochroa, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 273 (1891). 



Head and thorax reddish oehreous mixed with fuscous brown ; 

 tarsi with whitish rings ; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale 

 brown, more or less strongly suffused and irrorated with fuscous ; 

 some rufous below base of costa, in base of submedian fold, and 

 above inner margin ; subbasal line ill-defined, double, waved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line waved ; claviform short, 

 filled in with rufous ; orbicular and reniform with brown centres 

 and rufous annuli defined by black, the former round ; medial line 

 oblique to median nervure, then dentate ; postmedial line strongly 

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

 incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 pale, defined by diffuse dentate rufous marks on inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous brown, the ter- 

 minal area darker ; cilia oehreous white, with a brown line through 

 them : the underside pale, the costal and terminal areas sufi'used 

 with bi'own, a dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. ,vanthoc.i/anea. Head, thorax, and fore wing irrorated 

 wit! 7.!:ite, the ground-colour fuscous and grey without the reddish- 

 brown tinge. 



Ab. 2. luteocincta. Paler and more mixed with white, especiaUy 

 on medial and terminal areas of fore wing. 



Ab. 3. melanochroa. Smaller and darker ; fore wing slightly 

 mixed with white and rufous. — Asia Elinor ; W. Turkestan. 



Hub. France, Sand Coll.; Germany, ZcUer and Leech Colls.; 



