240 



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with latiial l)liiik bars ; ti'guhc witli mt'dial black line : meta- 

 Ihorax willi (ho crest dark ; abdonn-n pak- brownish. Fore winjf 

 bhii-sh prey more or less Hlronply suffused with brown; the veins 

 with fine black Ktreaks ; fine black streaks in and below base of cell ; 

 snbbasal line represented by an obli(jue striga from banc of costa ; 

 antenieilial line ratlier indistinct, dentate, more strongly in Bub- 

 inedian fold and above inner margin ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular 

 represented by two obliijuely-placed round whitish annuli defined 

 by black, the upper one sonietimes obsolete; reniforni lar^o with 

 whitish centre defined by brown and whitish annulus defined by 

 black ; the medial area usually with more or less developed broadly 

 difl'used black shade; postraedial line stronjrly dentate, somewhat 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, straight and. 

 api)roximated to reniform beyond the cell, some white points on 

 costa beyond it ; subterminal line white, defined liy brown on 

 inner side, dentate to near termen on veins 4, 3, and with wedge- 

 shaped black marks before it above veins 4 and 3, sometimes with 

 smaller marks above and below them ; a terminal series of slight 

 black lunules; cilia chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, especially in female, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown : cilia white ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal sjjot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. cincrascins. Paler and greyer, fore wing with the 

 markings less prominent. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing much deeper blue-grey 

 tinged with fuscous instead of brown ; hind wing mostly suffused 

 with fuscous. — Alberta. 



IJah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls (Baniston), 2 $ , 

 (A'on?irtH), 1 d» 1 $; Manitoba, "Winnipeg, 1 o » Alberta, Calgary 

 ( \\'oUe;/-Dod), 3 J, 2$ ; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, 

 Now York, 3 d", 1$, Pennsylvania, 1(5; Britaix, Leech Coll.: 

 France; Geumany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Atstkia, Leech 

 Coll. ; HuNGAKY ; SwirzEKLAND ; KussiA, Livonia, Zeller Coll., 

 Esthonia, Frey Coll., Urals ; W. Sihekia, Altai ; E. Sibekia, 

 Amurland. Kvj). 48-54 millim. 



Larva. .Mcyr. lirit. Lep. p. ol ; Barrett, Lcp. Brit. \\. p. 4t>, pi. 236. f. 'S. 



Dark jiurpli^h brown ; dorsal line blue-grey, darker edged ; 

 spiracular line broad, pale yellow, finely black-edged above; a 

 black mark in front of 1st somite ; head pale brown. Food- 

 plant, Vaccininm. 5-0. 



2390. Cloaiitba pulla. 



Noctua piiUa, Sch'iff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (177G); Iliibii. Eur. Scliiiiett., Xoct. 



ff. 23;< & GV)2-3 ; ])iip. Lcp. Fr. vii. p. 22(!, pi. 1 14. f. 4 ; Horr.-SchufT. 



Eur. Sc-hmett., Noct. f. lAHj ; Stojih. 111. Bnt. Eut.. llaust. ii. p. 17U ; 



Staud. Cat. Lop. pal. p. 212. 

 lioctuaf dixit, Frr. Nouo lit-itr. iv. pi. 31L f. 4 (1842). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brownish fuscous ; 

 palpi streaked with black at sides ; frous with black bar ; tegula) 



