820 NocTuin.Ti;. 



by fuscous on inner side, slightly excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle, then incurved; traces of a terminal series of black points ; 

 cilia with a fine ochreous line at base. Hind wing brownish ochre- 

 ous, the cilia with a brownish line through them from costa to 

 vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a small black discoidal spot. 



Ab, 1. sericea. Fore wing narrower, silky grey. — Holland, 

 Germany. 



Ab. 2. levis. Much paler ; fore wing yellowish. — Armenia, Asia 

 Minor, W. Turkestan. 



Ab. 3. amurensis. Smaller and darker. — Ussuri. 



Hab. Bkitain, Scotland, Leech Coll., Forres (Salvage), England, 

 Leech Coll., Ireland , Derry (Salvage) ; Prance, Sand Coll. ; Holland ; 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech 

 Coll. ; Switzerland ; Spain, Catalonia, Bilbao, Castille ; Italy ; 

 Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia; Asia Minor, Eithynia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Issyk Kul; W. Siberia, Altai; E. Siberia, 

 Ussuri. E.vp. 30-3(3 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 122; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 287, pi. 221. f. 2. 



Ochreous, sometimes tinged Avith reddish, dorsally browner ; 

 dorsal line pale, partly dark-edged ; subdorsal line pale, dark- 

 edged, more broadly below ; a Literal series of dark brown marks 

 sometimes present ; spiracular line pale ; head dark brown. Food- 

 plants : Stdlaria, liumex, Viola, etc. 9-5. 



3941. Athetis blanda. 



Foctua hlanda, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 77 (1770) ; Fabr. Mant. T7i9. ii. p. 1-17 



(1787) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. tI. p. 55, pi. 75. f. 6. 

 Noctua tara.raci, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett.. Noct. f. 575(1802); Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vi. p. 50, pi. 75. I'. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 197. 

 Orthosia guitilinea, Wlk. xv. 1709 ( 1858). 



Head and thorax pale reddish brown ; palpi black, whitish at 

 tips : antennae fuscous, whitish at base ; tarsi fuscous with slight 

 pale rings ; abdomen whitish tinged with reddish brown. F'ore 

 Aving greyish suffused with red-brown and irrorated with black, 

 the costal edge Avhitish; subbasal line slight, blackish, curved, from 

 costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinct, oblique, 

 sinuous with blackish points at costa, median nervure and vein 1 ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, brown defined hj white, the former 

 round, the latter elliptical ; faint traces of an oblique line from 

 lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 with black point at costa and series of points beyond it on the 

 veins, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 subterminal line whitish, defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion 

 and the area beyond it suffused with fuscous, slightly excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; traces of a terminal series of dark 

 points ; cilia with a slight whitish line at base. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and terminal area tinged with reddish brown ; cilia 

 white at base, mixed with broAvn at tips ; the underside with the 



