200 



NOCTUID^, 



wliitish suffused with fuscous brown, especially on terminal area, 

 more uniformly in female ; the underside whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a fine dark terminal line. 



Hah. Asia Minor, Pontus, 1 ^ ,1 $ , Taurus ; Syria, Mardin. 

 Exp., 6 2Q, $ 28 millim. 



1414. Polia albimacula. 



Noctuu alhimacula, Borkh. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 149 (1792); Steph. 111. 



Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 137, pi. 19. f. 3; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 162. 

 Nocttia compta, Esp. Schuielt. iv. pi. 117 a. f. 7 (1790), nee Schiff. 

 Noctua concinna, Iliibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 51 (1827) ; Dup. L^p. Fr. 



vi. p. 3.59, pi. 95. f. 3. 



Head and thorax reddish olive-brown with white markings ; 

 tcguho with white and black medial line ; i)atagia wilh white 

 patch edged with black ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen brown. 

 Tore wing reddish olive- browm ; a white patch on base of costa 

 traversed by the double, waved, black subbasal line and ending at 

 submedian fold, where there is a black lunule beyond it followed by 

 a curved mark above inner margin ; an irregularly waved black 

 antemedial line defined by white on inner side ; claviform incom- 

 pletely defined by black, and with a bidentate white patch beyond 

 it on base of vein 2, extending into the cell on outer side of the 

 orbicular, wliich is round, white defined by black and with brown 

 centre, and wdth white mark above it on costa ; reniform with 

 brown centre and white annulus defined by black ; a waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line black defined by white on outer side, dentate, 

 bent outwards beloAv costa and strongly incurved below vein 4, 

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

 defined by small dentate black marks on inner side and some black 

 beyond it in discal fold, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved and 

 somewhat dentate at middle ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules defined by white ; cilia brown intersected with white. 

 Hind wing pale suflfused with reddish brown, especially on terminal 

 area ; a white spot on vein 2 near termen ; cilia white with brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, the terminal area suflfused with brown, a small 

 diseoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line. 



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

 Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Switzerland, Leech Coll. ; Hitngary, Leech 

 Coll.; Kussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus; Persia ; W. Siberia, Altai. E.ij^. 28-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 77 ; Barrett, Lcp. Brit. iv. p. 245, pi. 1G3. f. 3. 



Pale brownish ochreons; dorsal line fine, indistinctly pale, 

 traversing a series of blackish spots connected with indistinct 

 V-shaped marks ; supra-spiracular line waved, fuscous, indistinct ; 

 head brown-streaked. Food-plant: seed-capsules oi Silene nutans. 

 7-8. 



