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Mamestra, Och., brassicce, L. 



Vol. i., p. 115. Mamestra brassicce var. straminea, Failla-Tedaldi. 

 A variety under this name is referred to in the ' Zoological Kecord ' for 

 1890 (Insocta), p. 244, as described in the < Nat. Sioil.,' x., p. 30. 



This may be the same as Staudinger's var. decolorata, which latter 

 is certainly the same as my var. ochracea, described from the Amur 

 specimens, and since the description of ochracea was published in ' The 

 Entomologist,' in Sept. 1889, and that of decolorata in March 1889, 

 the latter will take precedence. 



Dr. Staudinger's note and description of this variety is as 

 follows : " Mamestra brassicce var. decolorata, Stdgr. A quantity 

 of specimens of this common species, collected in the district south of 

 Issyk-Kul, are very much paler and more obsoletely marked than 

 typical brassicce, and I designate them therefore var. decolorata. It 

 comes near to my brassicce var. andalusica, but the latter is of a peculiar 

 whitish-grey, in no way yellow or light-brown grey. The black 

 transverse lines are more or less rudimentary, and other markings 

 almost lost in var. decolorata, so that the transverse line with the M 

 just before the outer margin disappears completely in the case of a $ , 

 and almost so in two other specimens. The hind wings also, as well 

 as the undersides, are lighter in the latter and the dark transverse line is 

 completely absent. A single specimen approaches very nearly to, and 

 is very like, typical brassicce, so that var. decolorata is only the pre- 

 dominant form from the South of Issyk-Kul. The brassicce which I 

 have received from Margelan are all darker and much resemble 

 European specimens " (< Stettiner entomologische Zeitung,' vol. 1., p. 

 34). 



Mamestra, Och., furva, Hb. 



Vol. i., p. 114. Mamestra furva var. infernalis, Ev. The original 

 description by Eversmann is as follows : " Mamestra. Alae anticse 

 thoraci concolores, fusco-nigras, atro-nebulosae, strigis transversis ordi- 

 nariis crenulatis pallidioribus, stigmate reniformi pallide circumscripto : 

 posticas nigricantes, externe obscuriores." " Eadein magnitudine, qua 

 Mam. persicarice eique maxime affinis ; differt praecipue stigmate reni- 

 formi obscuro, non albo, et alis posticis obscurioribus, quam in ilia, 

 prsecipue ad earum basin ceterum pictures dispositio fere eadem est ac 

 in M. persicarice ; item maris antennas brevissime et raro ciliatse sunt." 

 " Volat in provincia Casanensi et Orenburgensi, circa Casanum et in 

 promontoriis Uralensibus, Junio et Julio " (' Bulletin de la Soc. Imp. 

 des Nat. de Moscou,' 1842, pt. iii., p. 547). 



(?) Vol. i., p. 114. Mamestra furva var. sylvicola, Ev. This is 

 treated by Staudinger in his " Catalog ' as a probably distinct species, 

 but he adds : " Prsec. var. nigra (?"). This refers it not to furva, but 

 rubrirena, and as he appears to have had specimens his determination 

 is possibly correct. 



Eversmann's original description of sylvicola is as follows : " Ma- 

 mestra. Alas anticas nigrae, obsolete cinereo-nebulosas, strigis ordinariis 

 cinereo-albidis ; posticas fuscescentes lunula media strigaque externa 

 f uscis." " Eadem magnitudine et omnino eadem statura qua M. brassicce ; 

 pariter ac maculae et strigas ordinariae directione et proportione non 

 diffenmt, cognoscitur autein sylvicola alis anticis nigris, non fuscis, et 

 maculis strigisque albis. Volat in promontorium Uralensium aus- 



