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annnli defined by black, the former more or less oblique elliptical, 

 open above and sometimes below, the latter somewhat angled inwards 

 on median nervure and with irregular outer edges angled outwards 

 at extremities and middle ; a slight sinuous medial line oblique from 

 costa to vein 2, then approximated to the postmedial line, which is 

 double filled in with grey, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, incurved 

 and stronger in submedian interspace, some pale points beyond it on 

 costa ; the veins of terminal area streaked with black : subterminal 

 line whitish, somewhat dentate, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 

 defined on inner side by small wedge-shaped brown spots and with 

 slight dark streaks beyond it in the interspaces, the area beyond it 

 slightly darker ; a terminal series of small black lunules and waved 

 terminal line ; cilia blackish with fine white line at base. Hind 

 wing pale suffused with brown and sometimes tinged with rafous, 

 the veins and terminal area darker; a fine waved terminal line; 

 cilia white with a blackish line through them ; the underside whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with brown, a discoidal spot, rather diffused 

 waved postmedial line, and traces of diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. Kashmir, Dugi Pass ( Thompson), 3 J , 1 $ , Rala(i/c^r?7n(r), 

 1 c5" , Scind Valley {Leech), 1 (S , Goorais Yalley (Leech), 1 cT ; Punjab, 

 Kulu, 1 2 1 Thundiani, 1 $ , TJalhousie, 1 $ type ; Sikhim Tibet, 

 Yatong (Hohson), 1 $ . Ejj>. 40-54 millim. 



2498. Eumiclitis adiista. 



Noctua achista. Esp. Schmett. iv. ]:>1. 149. ff. 1, 2 (1788) : Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 316, pi. 92. f. 6 ; & Suppl. iii. p. 233, pi. 22. f. 1 ; Fit. Neue Beitr. 



pi. ti3. f. 2 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. 

 Noctiia 2}orphyrea , Scriba, Beitr. lus. p. 145, pi. x. f. 4 (1790). 

 Noctua aquilina, Bork. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 381 (1792). 

 Noctua duplex, Haworth, Lep. Brit. p. 190 (1809). 

 Nociim val.ida, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 60(i-8 (1827). 

 Noctua vultarina, Frr. Beitr. i. pi. 63. f. 1 (1827) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Sclimett., Noct. f. 403. 

 Hadena sa^ura, Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 181 (1829). 

 Hadena chardinjjl, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. pi. 21. f. 4 (1836). 

 Hadena pavida, Boisd. Gen. et Ind. Meth. p. 120 (1840); Herr.-SchiifP. 



Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 280, Noct. f. 497. 

 Hadena haltica, Hering, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1846, p. 237 ; Err. Neue Beitr. 



pi. 509. f. 4. 

 Mamcsira sijlvatka. Bell, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 186], p. 29, pi. 2. f. 11. 

 Hadena vicina, Alph. Hor. Ent. Soc. Boss. xvii. p. 67 (1882) ; id. Eom. 



Mem. V. p. 162. 

 Hadena ffriseaccn-s, Stndf. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1893, p. 361. 

 Hadena mces/a, Stand. Iris, x. p. 335 (1897). 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with some grey and black ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons Avith black bar; tegulse with some black 

 at base and black medial line ; tarsi fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen rufous dorsally suffused with fuscous, the male with tufts 

 of white hair from the stigmata. Pore wing bright rufous, the 

 veins and terminal area suffused with leaden-fuscous : a sinuous 

 black line below base of cell ; subbasal line represented by double 



