150 noctuidje. 



Ab. 1. pulla. Head, thorax, abdomen, and fore wing suffused 

 with fuscous, leaving the orbicular annulus white. 



Ab. 2. grumi. Fore wing narrower, the antcmedial area whiter ; 

 hind wing wholly white. — Thian-Shan Mts. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Denmark, Leech 

 Coll. ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll.; Spain; Italy; Scandinavia; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pithynia ; Persia ; 

 \V. Siberia; Mongolia, Thian-Shan Mts. ; F. Siiseria, Amurland. 

 Exp. 40-4G millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 142 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 234. pi. 120. f. 3. 



Dark fuscous or grey above, paler at sides ; numerous pale 

 yellowish pubescent points forming ill-defined lines; 10th somite 

 with a pale yellow or white dorsal patch ; numerous pale or white 

 hairs; head black marked with white. Food-plants: Poplar or 

 rarely Salix. 7—9. 



3742. Acronycta tiena. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 29.) 



Acronycta. tiena, Piing. Iris, xix. p. 216, pi. 8. f. 10 (1P06). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown and fuscous ; palpi 

 with the 2nd joint blackish at sides ; tarsi blackish ringed with 

 Avlnte; abdomen white suffused with brown, leaving white seg- 

 mental bands and the base white. Fore wing grey-white thickly 

 irrorated and suffused with blackish ; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, blackish, from costa to submedian fold; antcmedial line 

 indistinct, double, oblique, angled outwards below costa, inwards 

 on vein 1 and excurved in submedian interspace and above inner 

 margin; orbicular defined by blackish, small, round ; reniform very 

 indistinctly defined, with dark lunule on inner side of centre ; an 

 oblique blackish shade from costa to reniform ; postmedial line 

 double with white lunules on it above and below vein 1 ; bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line represented by a series of dark spots in the inter- 

 spaces ; a terminal series of black striae ; cilia chequered grey and 

 fuscous. Hind wing pure white with slight brown terminal line 

 from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with a few brown scales, a small dark discoidal spot. 



Hab. E. Turkestan, Hi in Coll. Pungeler, Alexander Mts.; 

 W. China, Moupin (Krieheldorf), 2 J. Exp. 40 millim. 



3743. Acronycta bicolor. (Plate CXXVI. fig. 30.) 



Acronycta bicolor, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881. p. 332; Hinpsn. ilotlis Ind. ii. 

 p. 243. 



Head and thorax black, with a few white scales; tarsi ringed 

 with whitish; abdomen grey suffused with brown. Fore wing 

 black-brown slightly irrorated with grey ; subbasal line represented 

 by indistinct double black stria? from costa and single striga from 



