94 NOCTUID-E. 



it to antemediiil line, which is stronj?, black, double, oblique, waved, 

 angled outwards below costa and inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former round with brown point in 

 centre, the latter with brown lunule on inner side of centre; an 

 oblique dark striga from ctista to reniform and waved line from cell 

 to inner margin ; postmedial line double with white lunule on it 

 in submedian interspace, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 incurved below vein 3 and angled outwards on vein 1, some white 

 points bej'ond it on costa ; an irregularly waved white subterminal 

 line excurved below costa and at middle and with series of black 

 spots on its outer edge ; a terminal series of small triangular black 

 spots ; cilia mixed with brown at base, the tips white with series 

 of black points. Hind wing red-brown, the cilia white with some 

 brown at base ; the underside white tinged and irrorated with red- 

 brown, a slight discoidal point. 



Ab. 1. salicis. Fore wing suffused with fuscous brown, leaving 

 the lunule on postmedial line and the subterminal line white. 



Ab. 2. alnoides. Fore wing with the inner area suffused with 

 fuscous to postmedial line and with ditt'used oblique fascia beyond 

 postmedial line below vein 3. 



Ab. 3. Larger and darker. — Japan and W. China. 

 Ab. 4, turanica. Fore wing sparsely irrorated with fuscous and 

 with fuscous suffusion below submedian fold and beyond postmedial 

 line only. 



ffah. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England {Grer/son), Leech 

 Coll.; Fkancb; Denmark, Dohlmann Coll.; Germany, Zeller and 

 Leech Colls. ; Afstria ; Hungary : Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; 

 Spain ; Corsica, Frey Coll. ; LrALY ; Morocco. Tangier ( Wahhuj- 

 liam), 1 S '■, Scandinavia ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Cyprus 

 {Miss Bate), 1 9 ; Armknia ; Asia Minor, Brussa, \ ^ , 1 § , Zeller 

 Coll., Amanus Mts., 1 $ ; Syria, 1 5 , Leech Coll., Bagdad (Loffus), 

 1 2 ^yps ff^'ffU'^ci ; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, 1 c? , 1 § , Sarawschan, 

 Issyk Kul; E. Turkestan, Hi; E. Siberia; Japan, Hakodate 

 ( WhHeley), 1 cT , 1 $ , Tokio {Maries), 1 J , 1 $ , Yokohama {Jonas, 

 Fn/er, Leech), 2 cT , 3 $ , ISTagahama {Leech), 1 $ , Kiushiu, 1 $ ; 

 CoRBA, Gensan {Leech), 1 $ : C. China, Ichang (Fryer), 1 5 , Ship- 

 y-shan {Fratt), 1 J ; W. China, Chang-yang (Fratt), 2 $ , Omei- 

 shan, 1 2 , Niton, 1 $ , Ta-chien-lu (Fratt), 1 $ , Wa-ssu-kou, ] c? , 

 Kia-ting-fu, 1 S , Chia-kou-ho (Fratt), 1 c? , Pu-tsu-fang, 1 $ , 

 Kwei-chow, 1 J ; Sikhim (Russell), 1 S type indica. Exp. 34-46 

 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 143 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 267, pi. 12,3. 



f. 1- 



Hark grey-brown with, pale marblings ; a dorsal series of black 



patches enclosing orange-red spots ; subdorsal series of white spots ; 

 subspiracular line waved, white or pale j'ellow, the tubercles orange- 

 red ; fascicles of pale ochreous or reddish hair mixed with blackish 

 hair ; somites 4 and 11 somewhat prominent above ; head black 

 streaked with brownish ochreous. Food-plants : Folygonum, Sali.v, 

 Hawthorn, Veronica, &c. 8-9. 



