CONISTEA. 453 



then incurved ; postmedial line rather indistinct, double, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely waved, slightly incurved at discal 

 fold and strongly below vein 4 ; subterminal line very indistinct, 

 pale, defined on inner side by a blackish bar from costa, then by a 

 series of small spots, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved 

 at middle ; a series of slight dark points just before termen or slight 

 waved line ; cilia grey tinged with purplish red, with a fine whitish 

 line through them. Hind wing yellowish white suffused and 

 irrorated with brown except the termen ; cilia whitf, tinged with 

 brown at tips on apical half; the underside white slightly irrorated 

 with brown, a dark discoidal spot, indistinct sinuous postmedial line, 

 and traces of diffused subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. suhspadiceana. cJ • Thorax and fore wing pale chestnut- 

 red, the latter with the markings very indistinct except the sub- 

 terminal spots. 5 . Thorax and fore wing x^urplish red, the latter 

 with the markings distinctly defined by grey, the veins streaked 

 with grey. 



Hah. W. TuKKESTAjr, Turkomania, 2 S , 2 § ; Ferghana. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



2661. Conistra veronicaB. 



Noctiia veronica, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 541 (1827) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 208. 

 Noctua dolom, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 632 (1827). 

 Cerastisiniricata, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 148 (1840); Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. 



iv. p. 80, pi. 68. f. 2 ; Gueu. Noct. i. p. 379, pi. 8. f. 13. 



Head and thorax rufous mixed with greyish ; palpi at sides deep 

 rufous ; sides of frons blackish ; tibi» and tarsi fuscous with pale 

 rings ; abdomen brownish grey irrorated with fuscous, the ventral 

 surface with sublatei'al black spots on three medial segments. Fore 

 wing greyish suffused with rufous and often striated with brown or 

 with black irroration, the veins with slight grey streaks ; subbasal 

 line represented by slight double striae from costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line double, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa ; 

 orbicular and reniform with greyish annuli slightly defined by 

 brown, their lower parts filled in with brown, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter constricted at middle ; medial line rather 

 diffused, waved, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell ; post- 

 medial line double, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, 

 defined on inner side by a brown bar from costa, then by small 

 rufous lunules, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at 

 middle ; a series of dark points just before termen ; cilia brown with 

 a fine waved pale line tluough them. Hind Aving fuscous brown 

 with faint discoidal Innule and diffused subterminal band ; a waved 

 dark terminal line ; cilia pale rufous ; the underside grey irrorated 

 with fuscous, the costal area suffused with rufous, a dark discoidal 

 lunule and indistinct diffused waved postmedial and subterminal 

 lines. 



