MONIMA. 431 



area suffused with brown; the underside with the costal area 

 tinged with rufous, a dark discoidal spot and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line. ^ 



Ab. 1. hibisci. Fore wing with the orbicular and reniform 

 conjoined. 



Bab. Ca^^ada (Norman), 1 $ , Calgary ( WoUey-Dod), 1 c? , 1 $ ; 

 U.S.A., 1 2 type, Easteru States to Georgia and West to Mississippi 

 States, 1 2 (Doubledaif), type in^ciens, Missouri. Exp. 4:4: millim. 



Larva. Green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines yellowish white, faint, 

 broken ; stigmatal line narrow, running above the spiracles except 

 on joints 2 and 12.— H. G. D. 



1768. Monima gracilis. 



Noctua gracilis, Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 76 (1876) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Is Oft. f. 168 ; Dap. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 141, pi. 82. f. 1 ; Frey. Xeu Beitr.iv. 



pi. 317 ; Herr.-Scliaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 383 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 202. 

 Nociita coUinita, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. ir)2. f. 6 (1796). 

 Noctua lepida, Scriba, Bsitr. Ins. Ges. iii. pi. 18. f. 7 (1793). 

 Bomhijx sparsus, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 122 (1803); Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 143. 

 Orthosia pallida, Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 143 (1829). 

 Taniocampa ella, Bull. A. M. N. H. (.3) i. p. 167 (1878). 

 Taniocampa paUldior, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 32. 

 Tamocampa rufescens, Cockerell, Entom. sxii. p. 4 (1889). 



Head and thorax grey slightly irrorated with pale brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; abdomen tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale 

 yellowish, suffused with grey-white and sparsely irrorated with 

 black ; subbasal line represented by a dark point in cell ; traces of 

 a pale, waved, antemedial line ; claviform sometimes defined by 

 whitish ; orbicular and reniform large, defined by whitish, the 

 former round ; traces of a medial shade sometimes present ; post- 

 medial line represented by a series of black points on the veins, 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line 

 whitish, slightly defined by brown on inner side, slightly excurved 

 below costa and at middle ; a series of dark points just before 

 termen ; cilia tinged with rufous. Hind wing whitish irrorated 

 and suffused with brown, especially on costal and terminal areas ; 

 cilia white ; the underside white, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with fuscous, a slight discoidal spot and postmedial series 

 of short striie on the veins. 



Ab. 1. rufescens. Head, thorax, and fore wing more or less 

 strongly tinged with rufous. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing suffused with fuscous brown. 



Ab. 3. 2^<^Midior. Much paler and greyer. 



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

 Zeller Coll. ; Switzeeland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; 

 EussiA, Leech Coll., Livonia ; Armenia ; Amukland, 1 § , Ussuri ; 

 Japan, Hakodate', 1 $ , Yokohama {Jonas, Pryer), 5 c? , 4 $ , type 

 ella. E.vp. 40-46 millim. 



