354 



NOCTUID^E. 



clotliod witli hair only, tlic pro- and metatliorax witli spreading crests ; tibia? 

 fringed with Imir ; abdomen with rough iiair at base and lateral fringes, but 

 without crests. Fore wing rat iicr narrow, the apex not produced, the termen 

 curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; from 10 

 anastiiiiiosing with 8 to form the areolc ; 11 from cell, ilind wing with veins 

 ."!, 4 from angle of coll; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 

 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennre of male serrate. 



1652. Eriopygodes imbecilla. 



Noctva imbecilla, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii, 2, p. 113 (1794'); Iliibn. Eur, 

 Schmett., Noct. f. ."iari ; Dup. L6p. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. o6;5, pi. 33. f. 3, «, h ; 

 Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 194. 



Mi/thimna disparilis, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 78 (ISIH). 



Mi/ihhnna nexa, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. (Vl, pi. 104. f. 4 (1821). 



Nocfiia alicna. Hiibn". Eur. Scbmelt., Noct. f. 411 (1827). 



Koctua alpina, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. If. 728, 729 (1827). 



c^* . Head and thorax bright nifous ; abdomen fuscous brown, 

 the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore wing ochreous 

 tinged with rufous, the veins rufous ; antcmedial line rufous, sinuous, 

 incurved in cell ; claviform and orbicular absent ; reniforra with 

 indistinct whitish annulus ; an indistinct medial shade obli(]ue 

 from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line single, even, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, then incurved; sub- 

 terminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique, straight, 



Fig. 90. — Eriopygodes imbeciila, c?. \. 



a dark patch before it on costa with pale rufous points on it ; a 

 dark terminal line. Hind wing fuscous brown ; the cilia ochreous ; 

 the underside whitish tinged and irroratcd with rufous, a slight 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



2 . Fore wing deep rufous, the pale reniform prominent. 

 JIab. France, Sand Coll. ; Germant ; Switzerland {StaiuUnger), 

 Zoller and Frcy Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Bulgaria, 

 Ptilo Dagli {Ehves) ; Soandinavia ; liussiA, Esthonia, Frey Coll., 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll., Urals ; Armenia ; W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai, 

 Ala Tau; Siberia; Mongolia, L'rga ; E. Siberia, Amur, 1 J, 

 E.rjy. 28-30 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male minulely ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with llio antcmedial line waved impnr. 



33. Fore wii'g with the antcmedial line oblique eucUdias. 



