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medial line double, bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate 

 and produced to a double series of black points on the veins, angled 

 inwards in discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a series of small 

 whitish lunules with slight blackish lunules on their inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly exeurved at middle ; a series 

 of small blackish spots just bcfoie termen connected by a crenulate 

 line and with slight whitish points before them ; cilia grey with a 

 series of slight fuscous lunules followed by a fine line. Hind wing 

 pale brown suffused with fuscous, the veins darker, the termen 

 whitish between veins 3 and 1 ; cilia whitish tinged with brown at 

 base ; the underside white slightly tinged and irrorated with brown, 

 a dark discoidal lunule, rather diffused postmedial line somewhat 

 incurved at discal fold and waved terminal line from costa to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. 2}ontica. Head, thorax, and fore wing grey wdthout any 

 rufous or olive tinge. — Pontus. 



Hab. ■? Sicily; ?Akmenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Araasia, in Coll. 

 Piingeler, Bithynia, Lydia, Cilicia ; Palestine, in Coll, Piingeler. 

 Ea2). 34 millim. 



270G. Amathes iners. 



Caradrina iners. Genu. Faun. Ins. Eur. xvi. pi. 24 (1817) ; Treit. Schmett. 



Eur. V. 2. p. 271 (1825); Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 292, pi. 27. f. 2. 

 Noci'iia mm'pecta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 633 (1827) ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 204. 

 Noctua congener, Gever, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 8G2 (1827) ; Frr. Neue 



Beitr. iii. ]il. 209. ff. 2, 3. 

 Orthosia Icevis, Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 65, pi. 76 (nee Hiibn.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with pale brown ; palpi 

 tinged with fuscous at sides ; pectus whitish ; anal tuft of male pale 

 rufous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with fuscous and slightly 

 tinged with rufous; subbasal line indistinct, double, waved, from cosra 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, double, waved, incurved 

 in cell ; claviform minute, slightly defined by brown ; orbicular and 

 reniform moderate with whitish annuli slightly defined by dark 

 scales, the former upright elliptical ; a slight medial shade, oblique 

 to median nervure ; postmedial line indistinctly double, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to slight 

 black streaks on the veins, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved, some 

 pale points beyond it on costa : subterminal line indistinct, pale, 

 slightly defined on each side by brown, somewhat exeurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia \\\\\\ 

 a fine whitish line at base. Hind wing pale suffused and irrorated 

 with brown ; cilia white with a dark line through them except 

 towards tornus ; the underside whitish irrorated with pale brown, a 

 slight discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. suspecta. Head, thorax, and fore wing bright rufous ; 

 abdomen and hind wing reddish brown. 



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



