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and ventral surface of abdomen gvey mixed with brown. Fore 

 wing grey tinged with red-brown and irrorated with black ; an 

 oblique red-brown antemedial band from eosta to just above inner 

 raai-gin, its edges angled outwards at vein 1 and its inner edge 

 incurved in submedian interspace; an oblique sinuous red-broAvn 

 medial line, the reniform indicated by some dark brown defined by 

 a greyish line on its outer side ; postmedial line red-brown, ex- 

 curved below costa, then incurved and excurved in submedian inter- 

 space, the area between it and the medial line suffused with red- 

 brown except towards costa ; a conical chocolate-brown patch on 

 postmedial part of costa with two grey points on costa, its outer 

 edge excised at middle, traces of a double sinuous subterminal line 

 from the oiiter edge of the patch to inner margin ; a red-brown 

 terminal band ending in a point at submedian fold, and a fine dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing yellow with the basal and inner areas 

 black-brown ; an oblique black line from vein 6 well beyond the 

 cell to termen at vein 1, incurved below vein 5 ; a terminal red- 

 brow^n band with waved inner edge, and dark terminal line from 

 apex to submedian fold ; cilia red-brown. Underside orange-yellow ; 

 fore wdng with black discoidal spot, postmedial striga from costa, 

 subterminal patch on costal area and terminal band from apex to 

 vein 2 ; hind wing with black discoidal lunule, slight postmedial 

 line angled outwards at diseal fold and ending at vein 2, sub- 

 terminal line forming patches at costa and diseal fold where it is 

 excurved, and ending at submedian fold, and terminal line. 



Ab. 1. tristicula. Darker. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

 Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzer- 

 land, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Spain ; Corsica, Zeller and Leech 

 Colls. ; Italy, Courmayeur (Hamjjsoti) ; Gtreece, Merlin Coll. ; 

 Balkan States ; Norway, Frey Coll. ; Russia, St. Petersburg, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Bithynia ; Syria, 

 2 5 , Leech Coll. ; W. Turkestan, P Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts. ; 

 W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 2 S , 3 $ , Ussuri. " 

 £Jxp. 26-34 millim. 



Larva. Mew. Brit. Lep. p. 164 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 270, pi. 255. f. 3 ; 

 Hffin. Raup. p.']45, pi. 36, f. 21. 



Ochreous yellow, sometimes tinged with ferruginous at sides ; 

 dorsal line double, brown ; subdorsal line double, dark grey ; spira- 

 cular line yellow edged with dark grey : head brown marked with 

 yellow. Food-plants : Trifolhim and Medicago. 7-9. 



7824. Gonospileia triquetra. 



Noctm triquetra, Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 94 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 

 p. 143 (1787) ; Hiibn. Beitr. i. 3, p. 14, pi. 2, f. I. (1788) ; Esp. Schniett, 

 iv. pi. 145. f. 4 (1789) ; Hiibn, Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 348; Godt. L^p. 

 Fr. V. p. 94, pi. 62. f. 1. 



Noctua fascialis, De Vill. Ent. Linn. ii. p. 450, pi. 6. f. 28 (1789). 



Noctiia'fortificata, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2. p. 52 (1794). 



Euclidia aurantiaca, Stand. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross. xvi. p. 79 (1881). 



EucUdiafumata, Hirsclike, Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, Ix. p. 414 (1910). 



Head and thoi'ax i-ed-bi-own with a greyish tinge ; palpi except at 



