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tinged with reddish brown ; a black streak below base of cell 

 defined by whitish above ; subbasal line represented by two oblique 

 striae from costa and one from cell ; antemedial lino indistinct, 

 double, waved, curved ; claviform small, defined by black, with a 

 short streak from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, open above and 

 below, the latter rather constricted at middle and angled inwards 

 on median nervure, with some red in its lower part and more 

 strongly defined by black below ; traces of a waved medial line ; 

 postmedial line indistinctly double, bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, excurved to vein. 4, then incurved ; subterminal line 

 whitish slightly defined by brown on inner side and usually witli 

 small dentate black marks at discal and subraediau folds, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing fuscous brown ; cilia white at tips ; the 

 iinderside whitish irrorated with brown, a small black discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Prance ; Germany, Zeller and Frey 

 Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Spain, Leech Coll., Bilbao, Castile, Andalusia ; jS". Italy ; Sweden ; 

 Russia, Kurland, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Balcans ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exp. 34-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 52 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 89, pi. 236. f. 1. 



Pale blue-green ; dorsal and subdorsal lines white, edged with 

 dark green ; spiracular line yellowish white, indistinct. Food- 

 plant, Oak. 5-7. 



2412. Graptolitha lamda. 



Noctua lamda, Fabr. Mant. Ins. p. 174 (1787) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 211. 

 Xylina zinckenii, Treit. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 16 (1826) ; Frr. Neue Beitr. 



p. 121, pi. 63. f. 3; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 367, pi. 34. f. 2; 



Herr.-Schatr. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 135. 

 Xylina somnicidosa, Heriiig, Stett. eat. Zeit. 1841, p. 165 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. 



pi. 462; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett, Noct. f. 136. 

 Xylina rufescens, Men. Motsch. Et. 1857, p. 23 ; id. 1858, pi. 2. f. 4. 

 Lithophane thaxtcri, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 196 (1874) ; 



Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 230. 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown ; palpi 

 streaked with black at sides ; frons with lateral black bar : tegulae 

 with black line near tips ; patagia with dark brown outer edges 

 and some black scales near upper edge ; tibiae with black streaks ; 

 abdomen purplish red-brown. Fore wing violaceous grey irrorated 

 with dark brown; a black streak below base of cell with some 

 brown suffusion below it; subbasal line represented by double 

 striae from costa and a striga from cell with some brown suffusion 

 beyond it; antemedial line double at costa, then waved and angled 

 inwards on the veins, a black streak in submedian fold with brown 

 suffusion above it from the ante- to the postmedial line ; claviform 

 absent ; orbicular and reniform large with slight grey annuli 



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