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flefined by black, the former very oblique, open above and below, 

 where it is confluent with the latter, which is strongly angled 

 inwards on median uervure and open above and below ; postmedial 

 line double filled in with ochreous, strongly bent outwards below 

 costa, then very oblique and slightly sinuous ; subterminal line 

 broad, ochreous, defined on inner side by slight dentate black marks 

 very slightly excurved below costa and at middle, then oblique ; a 

 fine slightly waved black terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous 

 with a brown line through them. Hind wing ochreous suffused 

 with brown ; an indistinct curved postmedial line ; the termen 

 narrowly ochreoiis ; cilia ochreous white ; the underside pale 

 ochreous irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and curved 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. S. liussrA, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. Exp., S 26, § 32 millim. 



Larva. Hffm. Raup. p. 92. 



Reddish grey irrorated Avith very small dark points, sides lighter ; 

 head brownish yellow. Food-plants : Grasses in the spring. 



Sect. II. Antennae of female ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the veins streaked with whitish. 



rt. Fore wing with the subterminal line evenly curved /iLyjida. 



b. Fore wing with the subterminal line waved hirsata. 



B. Fore wing with tlie veins not streaked with whitish. 



a. Fore wing without dentate black marks on subterminal line . orccna. 

 h. Fore wing with dentate black marks on subterminal line. 

 a'. Fore wing with the reniforin luuulate, tilled in with 



black /( ipjiaris. 



//. Fore wing with the reuiform narrow, angled inwards on 



median nervure, white with slight brownish centre leiicocera. 



2238. Leucochlsena hispida. 



JSioctua kispida, Greyer, Eur. Schmott., Noct. fF. 784-6 (1827); Boisd. Icones, 

 pi. 72. ff. 6-7 ; Mill. Icones, i. pi. 22. ff. 1-3 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. 

 Ejnsemajiilosa, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 139 (1840). 

 Noctiia hirfa, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 275, pi. 90. f. 3 (nee Hiibn.). 



Head and thorax brownish ochreous mixed with greyish and 

 fuscous ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons dark above with whitish line 

 between antennai ; teguUe with dark medial band and whitish tips ; 

 patagia edged with blackish ; tarsi black ringed with white ; 

 abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing brownish ochreous, the 

 medial area suiiused with red-brown except towards costa aud inner 

 margin ; the veins whitish ; subbasal line double, black filled in 

 with white, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; black spots above 

 and below vein 1 before the antemedial line, which is double, black 

 tilled in with white, oblique, angled outwards below costa and above 

 inner margin ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reuiform defined by black, the former orange-fulvous with whitish 

 annolus, round, the latter fawn-coloured, elliptical; a waved black 

 medial line except at inner margin, which is whitish from near base 

 to tornus ; postmedial line double filled m with whitish, strongly 



