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1684.a. Hadena reticulata, Vill. Linn. Ent. II., p. 254 (1789) ; Staud 

 Cat. Lep. pal., p. 159. 

 Noctua calcatrippa, View., Schmett., p. 73 (1789). 



,, saponarice, Esp. Schmett. IV., pi. 198., ff. 3"4 (1790) ; Dup. 

 Lep. Fr. VI., p. 272, pi. 90, f. 2 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. 

 Haust. II, p. 189. ' 

 „ marginosa, Haw, Lep. Brit,, p. 101 (1803). 

 „ typica, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct., f. 58 (1827). 

 Mamestra unicolor, Alph. Rom. Mem. V., p. 147 (1889)„ 

 Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey and black ; tarsi blackish with 



pale bands ; abdomen 

 ochreous thickly irro- 

 rated with dark brown. 

 Forewing dark brown 

 suffused with viola- 

 ceous before the ante- 

 §W medial line, beyond 



Hadena reticulata. $ \, the claviform, and on 



postmedial area ; the veins streaked with white except on postmedial area, 

 where they are black ; the subbasal line represented by double oblique 

 black striae from costa and cell filled in with white, a very oblique white 

 striga across the cell just beyond it ; the antemedial line double, black filled 

 in with white, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin, incurved 

 between those points ; claviform large, defined by black, and with pale streak 

 at centre ; orbicular and reniform with white annuli defined by black, the 

 former oblique elliptical, open above, the latter narrow and with white lunule 

 at centre ; a fine black medial line, oblique from costa to vein 2, then dentate ; 

 postmedial line double, black filled in with white, minutely waved, bent cut- 

 wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and angled inwards above 

 inner margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line ochreous 

 white, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4 and 3, with a series of 

 dentate black marks on its inner side ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia with fine pale line at base and intersected with white. Hindwing ochreous 

 white suffused with brown, the veins and terminal area brown ; cilia ochreous 

 white with a fine brown line at base ; the underside with the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal lunule and indistinct 

 curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1 unicolor. Forewing without violaceous tinge. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Armenia ; W. Siberia ; W. Tdrkistan ; E. Turkis- 

 tan ; Mongolia ; Kashmir, Nubra, Goorais Valley. Exp. 40'44 mill. 



Larva, Meyr. Brit. Lep., p. 81 ; Barrett. Lep. Brit. IV., p. 153, pi. 153, f. 2. 

 Pale greenish ochreous or pinkish ochreous with darker irroration ; dorsal, 

 subdorsal, lateral and spiracular lines faintly paler ; bead pale brownish. Food 

 plants : Lilene, Rumex, Primula, etc., 8*4. 



