432 noctuidj:. 



8253. Syngrapha grcenlandica. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 23.) 



Plusia gmnlandica, Stand. Steli. Eiit. Zeit. 1857, p. 30(5. 

 Plusia art lea, Mosclil. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, xxxiv. p. 29G (1884). 

 Tlusla u-auretim, Auriv. Bihang K. Svensk. Vet.-Akacl. Ilandl. X7. 4. 1. 

 p. 16, pi. 1. f. 7 (1890) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 239 (nee Quen.). 



He-ad and thorax dark brown mixed with grey-white, the tegulse 

 with blaekisli medial line defined behind by whitish and whitish 

 tips, the patagia with oblique whiti-sh line across them and whitish 

 tips; tarsi with white mixed; pectus and abdomen reddi.sh brown, 

 the latter with the cre.sts blackish and grey. Fore wing purplish 

 grey irrorated with dark brown, the medial area with a patch of 

 black-brown suffusion below the cell: subbasal line white defined 

 on each side by dark brown, sinuous, from costa to vein 1 ; ante- 

 medial line indistinct towards costa, below the cell silverj'-white 

 defined on each side by brown, angled outwards below costa and 

 inwards in cell, then oblique, waved; orbicular defined by brown, 

 oblique elliptical; an oblique silvery V-shaped stigma below the 

 cell, its lower extremity bent outwards ; reniform with slight 

 silvery outline, defined on inner side by black, its centre defined by 

 black above and below, constricted at middle where there is a small 

 black spot beyond it ; postmedial line double, brown filled in with 

 grey and with some silvery scales at inner margin, bent outwards 

 below co.sta, then oblique and slightly waved, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line blackish with a brown 

 shade on its inner side, excurved below vein 7, angled outwards 

 below veins 4 and 3, then slightly waved to tornus ; a terminal 

 series of .slight brown lunules defined on inner side by a waved 

 whitish line. Hind wing ochreous suffused with red-brown leaving 

 a faint pale postmedial band; cilia white, brownish at base and 

 with brown marks from apex to vein 2 ; the underside ochreous 

 tinged with red-brown, the costal and tenninal areas irrorated with 

 brown. 



Hah. Iceland, 1 c5' , Frey Coll. ; Greenl.vxu ; Labradou. Exp. 

 3S millim. 



82-54. Syngrapha circumflexa. 



Koctiia circumflexa Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. p. 8-14 (1707); Guen. Noct. 



ii. p. 352, pi. 11. f. 9 ; Hnipsn. Mollis Iiid. ii. p. 571 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 2.39. 

 riu.^ia qraphica, Ilerr.-SclKiff. Eur. Sclimett. ii. p. 394, Noct. f. 548 (1845) ; 



Frr. NeueBeitr. pi. 57(). f. 3. 

 Plusia daiibii, Frr. Nene Beitr. p. 90, pi. 256. f. 2 (nee Boisd.V 

 P/itsia patefacta, VVlk. xii. 924 (1857); Hnipsn. 111. Ilet. B.M. viii. p. 16, 



pi. 149. f. 1. 



Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with whitish, the 

 patagia with slight oblique white line across them ; tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with red-brown. Fore 



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