446 noctuid-t;. 



on each side by brown ; orbicular and rcniform with slight dark 

 centres and pale annuli ; medial shade oblique from costa to median 

 nennirc ; postmt'dial line more or less distinct, with dark edges, 

 bent outwards below costa, incurved at discal fold and below vein 

 4 ; subtermiual line defined on inner side by black points variable 

 in number, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle. Hind wing grey-black, somewhat paler at base ; cilia 

 yellowish white, sometimes with dark line near base; underside 

 dirty whitish, the terminal area irroratcd with black, a dark 

 discoidal spot and postmedial line sometimes present. 



llah. E. SiBKKiA, Ussuri. Exp. 31-33 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me. 



Sect. III. Antenna; of male minutely ciliated. 



A. Hind wing witli the termen and cilia brigbt 



yellow ; abdomen banded witli yellow fragaria. 



B. Hind wing with the termen and cilia not yellow ; 



abdomen not banded with yellow. 

 a. Fore wing with the ante- and postmedial lines 

 double, more or less waved or dentate. 

 a^. Fore wing with more or less prominent pale 

 streaks on the veins. 

 a^. Fore wing with black spots in reniform. 



a?. Head rufous crytkroccphala. 



Ifl. Head concolorous. 



«■•. Fore wing with the postmedial area 



suffused with red-brown gcdlka. 



fr>. Fore wing witii the postmedial area 



concolorous except at costa silcne. 



b-. Fore wing witiiout black spots in reniform. 

 a?. Fore wing narrow. 



a*. Hind wing uniformly suffused with 



fuscous silene ab. immaculata. 



h-i. Hind wing wliile with diffused dark 



subtenninal band acitttila. 



P. Fore wing broader. 



a-*. Fore wing with the costal area suf- 

 fused with grey canicobtata. 



h*. Fore wing with the costal area con- 

 colorous. 

 a'. Fore wing whitish grey to pale 



pui-plish red iwlUina. 



//. Fore wing grey-brown to pale red- 

 brown veronica. 



t\ Fore wing bright red-brov/n to 

 purpk'-brown. 

 a". Fore wing with the apex hardly 



produced vaccinii. 



Ifi. Fore wing with the apex dis- 

 tinctly produced and acute ardescens. 



d^. Fore wing deep purple-brown to 



gre^'ish fuscous ligula. 



b^. Fore wing without pale streaks on the veins. 

 a'-. Fore wing with white spot at lower angle 



of cell alhijMHcfa. 



