414 



NOOTUID^. 



Noctua nun-atrum, Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 78 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., 



Noct, f. 112. 

 OrtJimia (lothicina, Ilerr.-Scliiiff. Scbmett. Eur. ii. p. 100, Noct. flP. 125, 126 



(184.-)): 

 Taniocampa askoldensis. Stand. Rom. Mem. vi. p. 496 (1892). 



Head and thorax jjiirplish red-brown mi.xed with grey ; palpi 

 brown at sides ; tarsi witli pale rings ; abdomen palo rufous with 

 some grey below. Pore wing greyish almost entirely suffused with 

 purplish red-brown ; subbasal line only represented by black striae 

 from costa and cell; antemcdial line oblicjue, waved, defined by 

 greyish on inner side ; claviform only defined by a black fascia from 



Fig. 113. — Monima guthica, J. 



its extremity to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniforra with 

 whitish anuuli, the former oblique elliptical, open above, the cell 

 before and between them and below the orbicular filled in with 

 black ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, minutely 

 waved, bent outwards below costa, e.xcurved to vein 4, then incurved, 

 some pale points on costa beyond it ; subterminal line grey defined by 

 brown on inner side, forming small dentate marks at middle, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing yellowish suff"used with fuscous brown ; 

 the cilia paler; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a dis- 

 coidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. askoldi'nsis. More violaceous grey. — Amur ; Japan. 



Ab. 2. gothicina. Pore wing with the black markings absent, 

 the cell filled in with olive-brown. — Scotland: Scandinavia; Finland; 

 Tarbagatai Mts. 



Hab. Britain, Scotland, Forres (Salvage), England (Douhledai/), 

 N. Wales (Salvage) ; France ; Germany, Zeller Coll., Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll.; N. Sr.MN : N. and Centr. Italy, Leech Coll.; 

 Scandinavia; Finland, Zeller and Frey Colls.; lirssiA, Livonia, 

 St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Urals; S^E. Turkey, Leech Coll.; 

 W. Turkestan, Tarbagatai Mts. ; W. Siberia, Altai ; Amurland, 

 Ussuri; Japan, Gifu (Pryer), 2 $ . E.vp. 36-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyrick, Brit. Lep. p. 75; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 180, pis. 207 & 

 208. f. 8. 



Light green with numerous pale yellow dots ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale yellowish or wliitish ; spiracular line very broad, whitish, 

 dark -edged above ; head light green. Food-plants : Oak, Salix, 

 hawthorn, etc. 5-7. 



