410 NOCTUIDiE. 



abdomen whitish tinged with ochreous. Fore wing grejish 

 ochreous irrorated with brown ; antemedial line indistinct, brown, 

 strong])- angled outwards in subraedian fold, angled inwards on 

 vein 1 and excurved above inner margin; orbicular a rather 

 elongate dark point; reniform a narrow dark lunule : postmedial 

 line indistinct, brown, very slightly waved, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; subferminal line faintly defined by 

 brown on inner side and slightly waved, incurved below vein 3 ; 

 a terminal series of slight dark stria? ; cilia with a slight brown 

 line at base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brownish ochreous 

 especially on costal area ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a slight brown discoidal spot and traces 

 of a postmedial line from costa to discal fold. 



5 . Much more suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. aboleta. Paler; fore wing more ochreous with the 

 markings indistinct ; hind wing whiter. — Norway, Lapland. 



Ab. 2. sajana, Bang Haas, ined. Greyer. — Sajan. 



Ab. 3. melanocJrroa. Much darker, fore wing of both sexes 

 greyish fuscous. — E. Siberia. 



Hub. Britain ; France ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. 

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

 N. Italy ; Norway, Leech Coll. ; Lapland (Schoyen) ; Finland, 

 Zeller Coll.; S. Russia, Urals; Armenia; Mongolia, Urga ; 

 E. Siberia, Sajan, 1 <? , Amurlaud, Ussuri ; Kamtchatka. Eaaj). 

 J 32-40, 2 22-26 millim. 



Larva. Meyer, Brit. Lep. p. 121 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 205, pi. 219. f. 3. 



Brownish ; dorsal line whitish ; warts whitish ; head black. 

 Food-plants : Plantago, &c. 7-8. 



*4097. Petilampa anotlia. (Plate CXXXTII. fig. 3.) 

 Tlutypcriijca anotha, Dyar, Can. Ent. xsxv. p. 29 (1904). 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous irrorated with 

 dark scales, the head and palpi blackish brown. Fore wing 

 glossy greyish ochreous irrorated with dark scales : subbasal line 

 represented b) dark striae from costa and cell with a dark shade 

 before it at costa; antemedial line black-brown with a spot at 

 costa, oblique, angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1; 

 orbicular a small black spot ; reniform diffused, blackish ; a faint 

 diffused medial shade before postmedial line, excurved from costa 

 to vein 4. then incurved ; postmedial line blackish with spot at 

 costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved, defined on outer side by a paler shade ; 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous, darker at tornus with the 

 faint pale subterminal line on it. Hind wing semihyaline whitish, 

 the terminal half tinged with brown, a faint discoidal spot. 



Hab. Canada, Br. Columbia, Bevelstoke. Exp. 34 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me ; figured from a drawing from typo 

 in U.S. Nat. Mus. 



