106 VARIETIES OF NOCTtLE 



the best marked $ clearly existent. On the undersides, particularly 

 of the lighter hind wings, is a dark central spot, and beyond this is a 

 distinct transverse line " (' Stettiner ent. Zeitung,' vol. 1., p. 43). 



Apdmea, Och., basilinea, Fab. 



Vol. i., p= 84. Apamea basilinea var. grisescens, Stdgr. In the 

 ' Zoological Kecord ' for 1890 (Insecta), p. 56, I find a reference to the 

 * Stettiner entomologische Zeitung,' vol. 1., p. 42, where this variety is 

 described. Staudinger writes of the variety : " Hadena basilinea var. 

 grisescens, Stdgr. Of this interesting local form Herr Tancre sent to 

 me 1 (if and 2 $ , captured south of Issyk-Kul, and I also possess a 

 larger female which came from Alara (or Margelan ?). This var. 

 grisescens is a pale ashy-grey local form of the common basilinea, with 

 only a light brown tinge, and with the transverse lines also obsolete. 

 Only the short black basal streak, with two indistinct blackish spots 

 in the place of the stigmata beyond, and a faintly marked dark lunular 

 line appear on the fore wings. The ? from Alai, forms a good con- 

 necting link with typical basilinea, as here the transverse lines appear 

 on the fore wings faintly marked in light brown. In this specimen 

 also one notices on the underside of the hind wings behind the dark 

 central lunule, a dark transverse line found in basilinea, but of 

 which there is no trace in the specimens from Issyk-Kul " (' Stettiner 

 entomologische Zeitung,' vol. 1., pp. 42-43). This would appear to be 

 almost identical with my var. pallida, except that the latter appears to 

 be ochreous-grey rather than ashy-grey. 



Miana, St., bicoloria, Vill. 



Vol. i., p. 103. Miana bicoloria var. pallidior, Stdgr. Dr. 

 Staudinger thus writes of this form : " Eight specimens of this 

 species from Lepsa (a good one being captured on the llth of August) 

 together with specimens from Margelan with which they agree exactly, 

 form a curious local form which I name pallidior. The basal half of 

 the fore wings is red-brown, sometimes with its outer part somewhat 

 blackish. This is followed by the outer half being of a dirty 

 yellowish- white, of course, with the exception in some specimens, of 

 the almost obliterated dark outer margin. The hind wings are much 

 paler, of a dirty white. Similar specimens are found in Europe, 

 where they form distinct, but occasional, aberrations ; but in Central 

 Asia, pallidior becomes decidedly a constant local form " (' Stettiner 

 entomologische Zeitung,' vol. xliii., p. 42). 



Mamestra, Och., abjecta, Hb. 



Vol. i., p. 111. Mamestra abjecta var. fribolus, Bdv. The original 

 description which I made of Boisduval's figure of this variety is as 

 follows: "The fore wings blackish, with the abbreviated and 

 complete basal lines as well as the outlines of the reniform, orbicular 

 and claviform, of a deeper black. The elbowed line double ; the inner 

 line much shaded with black ; the subterminal a little paler than the 

 ground colour, but internally edged with black. The hind wings 

 dark grey at the base, the outer margin blackish " (' Icones ' &c., pi. 

 84, fig. 4). 



