1 1 4 N0CTU1D.T:. 



brown, the two medial lines prominent, the terminal area suffused 

 with fuscous brown and with a diffused blackish subtermiual band. 



Ab. 1. Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer brown. 



9 . Fore wing fuscous brown ; hind wing black-brown, the 

 white bands prominent. 



Hind wing with the cell rather short and veins 3, 4 stalked. 



Hah. S. France ; Austria, Frey Coll. ; Hungary, Zeller and 

 Leech Colls., Croatia ; Spain, Catalonia ; Italy ; Halmatia, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; Balkan States. Exp. 24-32 millim. 



5139. Eublemma arcuinna. 



Noctua arcuinna, Hiibn. Beitr. Ges. Schmett. ii. 4. p. 93, pi. 2. O (1793^; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 22(i. 

 Noctua inamama, Hiibn. Eur. Sclmiett.. Noct. ff. 301-2 (1802): Err. 



Neue Beitr. pi. ,'365. ff. 1-3; Dun. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 501, pi. 43. 



r. 3. 



Noctua argittacea, Tansch. Mem. Mosc. 1800, p. 325, pi. 20. f. 8. 



Noctua ingrata, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. pi. 55. ff. 278-9 



(1845). ' 

 Noctua blandula, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. in. f. 2 (1858). 

 Noctua . pen/ rat a, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. Id. f. 3 (1858). 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-white tinged with brown ; 

 pectus and ventral surface of abdomen whitish ; tarsi fuscous with 

 slight pale rings. Fore wing grey suffused with brown ; ante- 

 medial line with blackish spot at costa, then very indistinct, 

 sinuous ; medial line fuscous brown defined on outer side by white 

 and diffused on inner side, oblique from costa to median nervure : 

 postmedial line oblique and blackish defined on outer side by 

 whitish at costa, then very indistinct, sinuous, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish denned on inner side 

 by fuscous-brown suffusion, excurved at middle and incurved at 

 discal fold and below vein 3; a puuctiform dark terminal line; 

 cilia greyish fuscous with a pale grey line at base. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown ; a diffused curved medial brown line 

 from cell to vein 1 ; postmedial line indistinct, almost obsolete on 

 costal half, oblique from costa to vein 4 ; terminal area grey-brown 

 with a blackish-brown patch before it between veins 4, 3 ; a hue 

 dark terminal line ; cilia grey-brown with a whitish line at base ; 

 the underside white tinged and irrorated with brown except on 

 inner area and the medial band which is defined by distinct diffused 

 brown lines from costa to submedian fold. 



2 . Fore and hind wings suffused with fuscous. 



Ab. 1. argittacea. Fore wing more ochreous brown; hind wing 

 whiter, the markings of both wings more distinct. 



Ab. 2. ingrata. Fore wing pale brownish ochreous ; hind wing 

 ochreous white tinged with, brown, the markings of both wings 

 indistinct. 



Ab. 3. blandula. Fore and hind wings ochreous white tinged 

 with brown, the medial and subterminal lines of fore wing and the 

 markings of hind wing distinct. 





