320 noptuidjs. 



by fuscous on inner side, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then incurved ; truces of a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia with a fine ochreons line at base. Hind wing brownish ochre- 

 ous, the cilia with a brownish line through them from costa to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a small black discoidal spot. 



Ab, 1. sericeu. Fore wing narrower, silky grey. — Holland, 

 Germany. 



Ab. 2. levis. Much paler ; fore wing yellowish. — Armenia, Asia 

 Minor, W. Turkestan. 



Ab. 3. amurensis. Smaller and darker. — Ussuri. 



Hal). Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll., Forres (Salvage), England, 

 Leech Coll., Ireland, Derry (Salvage) ; France, Sand Coll. : Holland ; 

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

 Coll. ; Switzerland ; Spain, Catalonia, Bilbao, Castille ; Italy ; 

 IIussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, 

 Ussuri. Exp. 30-36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 122; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 287, pi. 221. f. 2. 



Ochreous, sometimes tinged with reddish, dorsally browner ; 

 dorsal line pale, partly dark-edged ; subdorsal line pale, dark- 

 edged, more broadly below ; a Literal series of dark brown marks 

 sometimes present ; spiracular line pale ; head dark brown. Food- 

 plants : Stellaria, liamex, Viola, &c. 0-5. 



3041. Athetis blanda. 



Noctua blanda, Sdiiff. Wien. Verz. p. 77 (177<"») ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 147 



(1787); Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 55, pi. 75. f. «. 

 Noctua ta.ra.raci, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett.. Noct. f. 575(1802); Dup. L6p. 



Fr. vi. p. 50, pi. 75. 1'. 4 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Orthmia yuitilinea, Wik. xv. 1701) (1858). 



Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; palpi black, whitish at 

 tips : antennae fuscous, whitish at base ; tarsi fuscous with slight 

 pale rings ; abdomen whitish tinged with reddish brown. Fore 

 wing greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with black, 

 the costal edge whitish; subbasal line slight, blackish, curved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemcdial line indistinct, oblique, 

 sinuous with blackish points at costa, median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, brown defined by white, the former 

 round, the latter elliptical ; faint traces of an oblique line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 with black point at costa and series of points beyond it on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion 

 and the area beyond it suffused with fuscous, slightly excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; traces of a terminal series of dark 

 points ; cilia with a slight whitish line at base. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and terminal area tinged with reddish brown ; cilia 

 white at base, mixed with brown at tips ; the uuderside with the 





