294 XOCTL'IDJ,. 



(li)ublo j)nstrm(lial line cxciuvcd from C'osl;i to vimii 4, then ol)li(iiu' ; 

 the veins witli taint (lark streaks towaids ternien, iJiiid -vvinf; 

 palo rufous. Underside of fore wing brown, tlie costal and terminal 

 areas whitish tiiif:;ed with rufous; bind winjj Avliitish tinjred witli 

 rul'ous and slightly irroratcd uith brown, traces of a dark discoidal 

 lunula. 



Ab, 1. nif/ricatis. Wholly suffused with blackish ; fore wing 

 will! the renilorm usually obsolescent. 



I/ali. 15kita1iV, Leech Coll.; Fkaxci;, Sand Coll.: Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Atjbxria ; Hungary ; !Swjtzerland ; 

 Spain, Andalusia ; N. Italy; Sweden; Kdssia, Livonia, Sarcpta. 

 £.V2). 2G-3li millini. 



i.arva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. Ill: Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. SS. jil. ]!•.">. f. •_'. 



Pinkish ochreons ; spiracular line ])alcr ; head dark brown. 

 Food-plant, in stems of I'/inif/rnites. 5-6. 



4702. Archanara resoluta, n. sp. (Plate CXLIIT. fig. 2.5.) 



(^ . Head and thorax red-brown ; antennte whitish ; abdomen 

 greyish tinged with red-brown. Fore wing greyish suffused with 

 red-brown and slightly irrorated with dark brown: a brownish 

 shade below median ncrvure and between veins 4 and submedian 

 fold to near termen ; the costal edge dark brown ; a faint curved 

 brown subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; anteinedial line 

 rather indistinct, oblique, brown, dentate, angled inwai'ds to short 

 dark streaks on the veins, with a brown point before it in cell : a 

 whitish streak on terminal part of median nervure, its extremities 

 slightly bent upwards and with a short dark streak between them ; 

 postmedial line blackish, obli([ue from costa to vein 7, then dentate 

 and inwardly oblique ; subtcrminal line formed by a series of small 

 difl'used dark marks, angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with brown ; the underside whitish suffused with rufous and 

 irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal bar and diffused curved 

 postmedial line. 



JJab. Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 c? type. Exp. 30 millim. 



4703. Archanara dissoluta. 



'Noctua vevrica. Hiibn. Eur. t^clniictt.. ^'oct. ff. r..')t»-661 { 1818), nee t'. 381 ; 



Dup. I.ep.Fr. vii j.t. 1, p. 85, pi. 106. f. L' ; Ilerr.-Schaff. Eiu-. Sclnuett., 



Noct. ff. 3+7-8. 

 ]S^vclnadh»oluta,l!ve\{. Scbmett. Eur. v. (2) p. 319(1825); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 188. 

 No}iaqria hcssei, Bcisd. Gen. & Ind. Metli. ]). 134 (1840). 

 Nonagrm aruudincta, S;;hniidt, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1858, p. 369. 



(ctrundinetd.) Head and thorax ochreous grej'ish tinged with 

 red-bi'own, the tegula) edged with red-brown; ])alpi irroratcd with 

 brown; irons brown at sides : legs brown, the tarsi Avith slight pale 

 rings ; abdojuen ochreous whitish suffused with red-brown except at 



