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NOCTUID.E. 



reniform represented by two small dark brown spots, tbe lower 

 rather larger; postmedial line indistinct, whitish, slightly bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved below vein 4 and forming an oblique 

 band towards inner margin, some slight white points beyond it 

 on costa ; subterminal line white, angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 forming an oblique band bent outwards to tornus, a terminal scries 

 of slight black points ; cilia red-brown chequered with white at 

 lips. Hind wing white slightly tinged with red-brown ; the 

 underside white irrorated with red-brown, a slight discoidal spot. 



Ah. 1. cretacea. Rather greyer; fore wing with oblique dark 

 band before the postmedial line from vein 4 to inner margin. 



llab. Austria, Tirol; Corsica; Italy, Leech Coll.; Hungary; 

 Balkans, Zeller Coll. ; Hussia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia, Caucasus, 

 2 tf, Zeller Coll.; Pebsia, 1 c?,D'Emmich Coll.; W.Turkestan, 

 Turcomania, Ferghana ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Tuhkestan, Hi ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, 1 <$ , Ussuri ; Japan, Myanoshita (Yerbury), 

 1 $ , Yokohama {Jonas, Pryer), 1 d 1 , 3 £ type cretacea ; Corea, 

 Gensan (Ito, Leech), 1 J 1 , 1 $ ; C. China, Fokien (eU la Garde), 

 1 6 , Kiukiang (Pryer), 1 $ , Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 $ . Exp. 24- 

 28 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 284; Hffm. Eaup. p. 142. 



Green; dorsal line dark ; lateral line white. Eood-plants: Arte- 

 misia c&rulescens and campestris. t>. 



5583. Fhyllophila griseola. 



Thalpochares griseola, Felcl. Reis. Nov. pi. IDs. f. 10 (1874), S- 

 Tarache levcostigmata, Hmpsn. Aim. iS. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 3 ( J0 (1902)' $. 



r? . Head and thorax grey tinged with reddish brown ; tarsi 

 black-brown slightly ringed with white ; abdomen ochreous white 

 irrorated with brown, bore wing grey tinged with red-brown 

 and irrorated with black, the terminal area rufous ; subbasal line 

 represented by a black striga from costa; antemedial line slight, 

 black, oblique, angled outwards on subcostal and median nervines, 

 then sinuous; orbicular absent; reniform very faint, pale, angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; a sinuous blackish line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin with brown suffusion between it and 

 the postmedial line, which is rather indistinct, double filled in with 

 whitish, bent outwards below costa, minutely waved to vein I, 

 then incurved ; subterminal line faint, pale, on inner area forming 

 a diffused patch extending to postmedial lino ; a terminal series of 

 slight dark points; cilia brown mixed with grey. Hind wing 

 reddish brown with indistinct postmedial line excurved beyond the 

 cell, diffused subterminal band and terminal series of points ; cilia 

 whitish at tips ; the underside whitish tinged and irrorated with 

 brown, the postmedial line as above. 



5 . Eore wing with tho basal area rather whiter, the lines 

 strong, black, the orbicular white defined by black, small, round, 

 the reniform white defined at sides by black, quadrate and strongly 



