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NOCTUIDiE. 



tcgultu with black medial lino 

 ringed with white ; 



patagia edged with Ijlack 



tarsi 

 abdomen whitish mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing whitish suffused with pale yellowish and dark brown and 

 irroratcd with black, the veins streaked with whitish ; subbasal line 

 represented by a striga from costa and double striga from cell ; 

 a slight black streak below base of cell ; antemedial line double, 

 minutely waved, angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform 

 well-developed, defined by and suffused with black, its edges often 

 continued to the basal black streak ; orbicular and reniform large, 

 with brown centres and white annuli dehned by black, the former 

 round : some black suffusion often present in and below cell ; traces 

 of a diffused medial line ; postmedial line double, bent outwards 





Fig. 27. — Packetra leucojpkcea, J. {. 



below costa, then oblique and acutely dentate on veins 5 to 2, 

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

 defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and indented at veins 4, 3 by dentate whitish 

 streaks defining the veins ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia chequered white and brown. Hind wing whitish tinged with 

 brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia 

 brown at base, white at tips ; the underside whitish, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. homhycina. Fore wing with the markings more prominent. 

 — Urals, Centr. Asia. 



Ab. 2. pyrenaica. Fore wing more or less suffused with fuscous. 

 — Pyrenees, Spain, Asia Minor. 



Ab. 3. Hind wing white, the veins only tinged with brown. 

 — Syria. 



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

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Switzerland, Zellcr and Frey Colls.; 

 N. Italy ; S. Sweden ; Finland ; Russia, Livonia, Urals ; Asia 

 Minor, Bithynia, Pontus ; Syria, Leech Coll. ; W. Turkestan, 

 Tarbagatai Mts., Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Turkestan, Hi. 

 Exy. 44-52 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lop. p. 85 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 147, 1)1. 153. f. 1. 



Ochreous or brownish ochreous ; dorsal line pale, traversing a 



series of oblique blackish marks ; subdorsal line indistinct, spira- 



cular line pale, edged with blackish marks above. Food-plants : 



Grasses. 6-4. 



