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and veiitnd sui-face of abdomen grev mixed with brown. Fore 

 wino- grev tinged with red-brown and irrorated Avith black ; an 

 obhque red-brown anteinedial band from fosta to just above inner 

 margin, its edges angled outwards at vein 1 and its inner edge 

 incurved in submedian interspace; an oblique sinuous red-brown 

 medial line, the reniform indicated bv some dark brown defined by 

 a greyish line on its outer side ; postmedial line red-brown, ex- 

 curved below costa, then incurved and excurved in submedian inter- 

 space, the area between it and the medial line suffused with red- 

 brown except towards costa ; a conical chocolate-brown patch on 

 |X)stmedial part of costa with tw(j grey points on costa, its outer 

 edge excised at middle, traces of a double sinuous subterminal line 

 from the outer edge of the patch to inner margin ; a red-brown 

 terminal band ending in a point at submedian fold, and a tine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing yellow with the basal and inner areas 

 bkck-brown ; an oblique biack line from vein G well beyond the 

 cell to termen at vein 1, incurved below vein 5 ; a terminal red- 

 brown l>and with waved inner edge, and dark terminal line from 

 apex to submedian fold ; cilia red-brown. Underside orange-yellow ; 

 fore wing with ])lack discoidal spot, po.stmedial striga from costa, 

 subterminal patc-h on costal area and tei-minal band from apex to 

 vein 2 ; hind wing with black discoidal lunule, slight postmedial 

 line angled outwards at discal fold and ending at vein 2, sub- 

 tciminai line forming patches at costa and discal fold Avhere it is 

 excm-ved, and ending at submedian fold, and terminal line. 



Ab. 1. tristiculd. Darker. 



Hah. Britatx, Leech Coll. ; Fbaxce, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

 Gebmanyt, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; ArsTEiA ; Huxgaey ; Switzer- 

 LAis^D, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Spatx ; Corsica, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls.; Italy, Courmayevu' (Haiiijjsou) ; (tREECE, Merlin Coll.; 

 Balkan States ; Norway, Frey Coll. ; Kussia, St. Petersburg, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Mixor, Pontus, Bithynia ; Syria, 

 2 ? , Leech Coll. ; W. Tirkestax, ? Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts. ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, Amurland, 2d, 3 5, Ussuri. 

 Krp. 26-34 millim. 



Lan-a. Mevr. Biir. L»p. p. 164 ; Barrett, Lep. Biif. vi. p. 270, pi. 2.^)5. f. 3 ; 

 llffin. liiiup. p."]4.'), pi. 30, f. 2]. 



Ochreous yellow, sometimes tinged with ferruginous at sides ; 

 dorsal line double, brown ; subdor.sal line double, dark grey; spira- 

 cvdar line vellow edged with dark grey ; head brown marked with 

 yellow. Food-plants : TrifoJium and Medicayo. 7-9. 



7824. Gonospileia triquetra. 



Noctua triquetra, Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 94 (1770) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 143 (1787) ; Hiibn. Beitr. i. 3, p. 14, pi. 2, f. I. (1788) ; Esp. Scbniett. 



IV pi. 145. f. 4 (1780) ; Hlibn. Eur. Scbiiiett., Noet. f. 348; Godt. Lep. 



Fr. V. p. 94, pi. 52. f. 1. 

 lochia fascialh, De Vill. Ent. Linn. ii. p. 450, pi. 0. f. 28 (1789). 

 I^oduaforfificaia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. i)2 (1794). 

 Euclidia aurantiacn, Stand. Ilor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 79 (1^81). 

 Eioclidiafumaia, Hirschke, Verb, zool.-bot. Gcs. Wien, L\. p. 414 (1910). 



Head and thorax red-brown witli a greyish tinge : p;ilpi .xcept at 



