f>14 noctcid.e. 



is white defined by black, narrow and elongate; orbicular very small, 

 elongate elliptical, white defined by blackish and with slight dark 

 streak in centre ; reniform narrow, angled inwards on median 

 nervure, white defined by blackish and with brown line in centre 

 dilated below ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side by 

 an oblique fuscous shade from costa, bent outwards at vein 7, then 

 represented by an oblique series of white striae slightly defined on 

 each side by brown suffusion, ending at vein 2 ; a terminal series 

 of dark strias. Hind wing white tinged and irrorated with brown 

 except towards base ; cilia white ; the underside white slightly 

 irrorated with brown especially on terminal area, a slight discoidai 

 lunule. 



Ab. 1. mawetanica. Fore wing uniformly irrorated with 

 fuscous, the white streak below base of cell absent and the clavi- 

 f'orm hardly traceable; the aute- and postmedial lines sometimes 

 present, obsolete towards costa, the former defined by white on 

 inner side and angled inwards on vein 1, the latter defined by 

 white on outer side, oblique and slightly sinuous. — Algeria. 



Bab. Algeria, Biskra, Tkont ( Wcdsingham), 1 c? , Hammam-es- 

 Salahin ( Walsingham), 6 <$; Palestine, 1 J. Exp. 24-28 millim. 



4277. Catamecia contrita. 



Agrotis contrita, Christ. Kom. Mem. i. p. 118(1884); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 222. 

 Agrotis conlrix, Christ. Kom. Mem. i. pi. vii. f. 8 (1884). 



<3 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous slightly tinged with 

 brown. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with brown ; subbasal 

 line represented by slight dark marks below costa and cell ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct, waved, somewhat oblique ; claviform slightly 

 defined by fuscous ; orbicular and reniform rather indistinctly 

 defined by fuscous, the former very small, round, the latter rather 

 large and quadrate ; traces of an oblique medial line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique below vein 4, 

 some slight pale points beyond it on costa ; faiut traces of a palo 

 subterminal waved line excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a 

 terminal series of slight brown lunules ; cilia mixed with brown 

 and with traces of a slight brown line through them. Hind wing 

 pale brownish ochreous, the terminal area rather darker ; cilia 

 white ; the underside white irrorated with pale brown, an in- 

 distinct curved postmedial line. 



Bab. W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 J ; E. Turkestan, Hi. 

 Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus NAMANGANA. 



Type- 



Namangana, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 28 eretacea. 



Eupolia, Smith, Tr. Am. Ent. Soe. xxi. p. 69 (1894) licentiom. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to about 

 middle of frons and moderately scaled in front, the 3rd typically short, 



