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costal area tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 point and traces of subterminal line from eosta to discal fold. 

 ffah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France; Germany, Zeller and Leech 



Colls. ; Austria, Zeller Coll. ; Eungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll.; ? Spain, Catalonia; Scandinavia (Schot/en) ; Finland, 

 Leech Coll.; Russia, Urals; Armenia; ? Asia Minor, Bithynia; 

 hah. ign., 1 g type guttilinea. tirp. 30-30 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 123; Barrett, Brit. Lep. v. p. 200, pi. 221. f. :'.. 



Pale ochraceous or brownish, slightly freckled with blackish ; 

 dorsal line pale yellowish, traversing a series of small blackish 

 marks; subdorsal line pale, defined below by a strong dark brown 

 lino ; spiracular line brownish ; head ochreous marked with brown. 

 Food-plants : Stellaria, lliunex, Grasses, &.C. 9-4. 



3942. Athetis amhigua. 



Noctua amhigua, Sehiff. Wien. Vera. p. 77 (1870); Fabr. Mane. Ins. ii. 



p. 148 (1787); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Noctua plantaginis, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. f>70 (1802); Pup. Lop. 



Fr. vi. p. 59, pi. 70. f. 2; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 381. 

 Ortkosia uniformis, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188."), p. 350, pi. 9. f. 6; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 261. 

 Caradrina hilaris, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197 (1901). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with pale rufous; palpi with 

 the 1st and 2nd joints blackish at sides; abdomen whitish tinged 

 with rufous. Fore wing whitish suffused with pale rufous and 

 slightly irrorated with brown, the costal edge white ; subbasal line 

 blackish, curved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial lino 

 blackish, oblique, waved, excurved below submedian fold ami 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and reniform large, reddish 

 brown defined by white, the former round, the latter elliptical ; 

 faint traces of a diffused sinuous line from lower angle of cell to 

 inner margin ; post-medial line blackish, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 4, a faint whitish line beyond it ; subterminal 

 line whitish excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal 

 series of black points; cilia with a fine whitish line at middb 

 Hind wing white ; the underside with the costal area irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot, traces of a postmedial line with 

 minute black streaks on the veins and terminal series of points 

 from apex to vein 2. 



Ab. 1. uniformis. Paler; palpi slightly tinged with fuscous at 

 sides ; fore wing with an ochreous tinge. — Syria, W. Turkestan, 

 Beluchistan. 



Hab. Britain; France, Sand and Leech Colls.; Germany, 

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

 Frey Coll. ; Italy, Capri (C. S. Browne); Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Algeria; Russia, Livonia; Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Lvdia ; Syria ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Syr Daria. 1 cf . 1 § , 



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