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brown centre and whitish annulus defined by black ; reniform rather narrow, 

 fuscous grey defined by black ; an indistinct medial line oblique from costa to 

 vein 2, then dentate ; postmedial line double filled in with grey, bent out- 

 wards below costa, incurved to vein 4, then bisinuate, the area beyond it paler 

 with some whitish points on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner 

 side by black streaks below costa and dentate marks at middle, angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and dentate to termen at veins 4"3, the area beyond it suffused with 

 black ; a terminal series of black lunules ; cilia pale brown with darker lice 

 through them and intersected with ochreous. Hindwing whitish, the bare 

 tinged with brown, the veins, discoidal lunule and teiminal half brown; cilia 

 white ; the underside whitish slightly irrorated with brown, a discoidal lunule, 

 slight curved postmedial line and broad subterminal band. 



Habitat. — W. Tuekistan ; E. Turkestan ; Kashmir, Deosai Plains. Exp„ 

 40-44 mill. 



1678, Miselia perdentata insert "(syn.) Mamesira lifda,¥xmg. Iris, 1902,. 

 p. 149, pi. 5, f. 3 ; Hmpsn. Cat. Lep. Phal., B. M„ V.,, p. 129, pi 81, f. 22. 



1690.a. Miselia dentin a, Schiff. Wien. Verz., p. 82 (1776); Esp. Schmett IV.,. 

 pi. 127, f. 3 (1789) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 408 ; Dup. 

 Lep. Fr. VI., p. 269, pi. 89, f. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal., p. 159. 

 Noctua plebeia, Haw. Lep. Brit., p. 198 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. 



Haust., III., p. 185. 

 Noctua leucostigma, Haw. Lep. Brit., p. 198 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent. Haust., III., p. 186. 

 Hadena latenai, Pierret, Ann. Soc. Ent Fr. 18S7, p. 177, pi. 8, f, 3. 

 Noctua hilaris, Zett. Ins. Lapp, p. 938 (1840). 

 Head and thorax grey mixed with black ; tegulse with black medial lirie :. 

 tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen greyish fuscous. Forewing violaceous grey 

 irrorated with fuscous ; the medial area suffused with fuscous brown ; a black 

 streak in base of submediau fold ; subbasal line represented by double black 

 stria3 from costa and cell ; some yellow on inner margin near base usually 

 present ; antetnedial line double, waved, oblique ; claviform moderate, defined 

 by black ; a bidentate whitish patch beyond it below the cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform grey defined by black and with more or less developed fuscous centres, 

 the former round ; an indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line double, 

 dentate and produced to short streaks on the veins, bent outwards below costa 

 and incurved below Vein 4, some white spots beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish, often tiDged with yellow, defined on inner side by small dentate 

 black marks and with some black beyond it in discal fold, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and somewhat dentate at veins 4*3 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected with white. Hindwing fuscous brown, rather 

 darker on terminal area ; cilia yellowish at base, with brown line through 

 them and white tips; the underside grey irrorated with brown, a small discci- 

 dal spot, curved postmedial line, and subterminal band. 



Ab latenai much darker, the forewing wholly suffused with fuscous. 



