782 NOCTUIDJE. 



obsolescent towards tornus ; cilia white with slight fuscous marks 

 at apex ; the underside with postmedial bar from costa, a lunulate 

 subterminal band from costa to vein 4 with dark marks bejond it 

 on termen and a slight spot below vein 2. 



Bab. Mashonaland, Salisbury (Marshall, Dobbie), 2 $ type. 

 Exp. 32-34 millim. 



6179. Tarache titania. 



Noctua titania, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 36, pi. 190. f. 2(1796); Dup. Lep. 

 Fr.. Suppl. iii. p. 438, pi. 38. f. 6; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. ff. 230-1 ; Friv. Tarsas. Tud. Akad. Evkonys. xi. (4) pi. 7. f. 10 

 (1886) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 225. 



c? . Head and tegulae fuscous brown with a greyish tinge, the 

 latter white at base ; palpi white except towards tips ; thorax 

 white slightly mixed with grey, the fore tibiae and tarsi brownish 

 ringed with white ; abdomen white with diffused dorsal brownish 

 bands and ventral bars. Fore wing white tinged with olive- 

 yellow ; subbasal and antemedial lines represented by double 

 greyish bars from costa ; orbicular represented by a black point, 

 the reniform indistinct, greyish, oblique elliptical ; a pale olive- 

 vellow band from middle of costa to median nervure where it joins 

 the dark tei'minal area, which is olive-brown shading to purplish 

 grey, its inner edge obliquely excurved from costa to vein 4, then 

 retracted to below end of cell and incurved to inner margin ; traces 

 of a fine dentate whitish postmedial line from vein 6 to inner 

 margin, strongly incurved below vein 4 and with some bluish 

 white irroration before it in submedian fold ; subterminal line 

 slight, yellowish defined on inner side by cupreous red, incurved 

 and waved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of slight black lunules ; 

 cilia brown, white -tipped at apex and with white patch below 

 middle. Hind wing white, some brown suffusion at base ; a 

 sinuous fuscous brown medial band ; a broad terminal fuscous 

 band, its inner edge incurved below vein 3 ; cilia white, brown at 

 base from apex to vein 4 and at tornus ; the underside white, an 

 irregular black-brown medial band, the terminal band with a 

 maculate white line on it from below apex to termen at vein 1. 



$ . Thorax darker; fore wing with more dark suffusion at base; 

 hind wing with the white areas reduced. 



Hob. Hungary; Bosnia; Bulgaria; S. Russia (Christoph), 

 Zeller, Trey, and Leech Colls. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Yellowish white mottled with pink ; dorsal line in- 

 distinct ; lateral line whitish ; somites 4-6 with deep pink lateral 

 patches marked with some black, the warts on them white 

 ( Christoph). 



