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NOCTUID^. 



■with -white. Hind wing fuscous brown with pale terminal mark 

 towards tornus : cilia pale with a dark line through them ; the 

 underside Avhitish thickljf irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot and 

 curved postmedial series of short streaks on the veins. 



Ab. 1. grceseri. Smaller, with the fore wing less distinctly 

 marked. 



Jfah. ^\. TtJEKESTAN, Issyk-kul, Alexander Mts., type t in Coll. 

 Piingeler ; E. Tttkkestan, Hi, type t grceseri in Coll. Piingeler, 

 Kungess, 1 6 . Ea-jp. 42-44 millim. 



1472. Hadula corghossi. 



Mamestra korghossi, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss.'xvii. p. 65, pi. 2. f. 49 

 (1882) ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; tegulse with 

 dark medial line ; patagia with whitish patch ; abdomen brownish 

 grey. Fore wing grey, suffused and irrorated with fuscous or 

 reddish brown ; subbasal line represented by oblique double striae 

 below cell filled in with white, and with a whitish patch beyond it ; 

 antemcdia] line indistinct, double, irregularly dentate ; claviform 



Fig. 41. — Hadula corghossi, J. 



large or moderate, defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform 

 with whitish annuli defined by blackish, the former more or less 

 indistinct and elongate elliptical, the latter with its upjjer part 

 more or less obsolescent, its lower part expanding inwards on 

 median nervure, filled in with fuscous and with a prominent semi- 

 circular part of the white annulus below it ; postmedial line very 

 indistinct, double, strongly dentate, bent outwards below costa and 

 oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line whitish, defined by brown on inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area 

 beyond it darker ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind 

 wing whitish suffused with fuscous especially towards termen ; the 

 underside white slightly irrorated with brown ; a small discoidal 

 spot and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. W. Siberia, Altai, 1 S ', W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 

 1 r7 , 1 J ; E. Turkestan, Kuldja, 2 c? , 1 5 , Thian Shan ; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland, 3 S . Exp. 40-46 millim. 



jSbct. II. Antennae of male bipectinate, with long branches, the apex simple. 



A. Hind wing nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous tiirpis. 



B. Hind wing whitish irrorated and the terminal area suffused 



with fuscous optima. 



