54 NOCTUID^. 



tips, pectus, and legs rufous ; abdomen grey irroi-ated with broAvn, 

 the anal tuft yellow. Fore wing purplish grey irrorated with red- 

 brown ; a triangular chocolate-brown patch, edged with black and 

 defined by white, from subcostal nervure before middle to above 

 inner margin where its lower edge is excised ; reniform pale red- 

 brown defined on oiiter side by white, oblique elliptical, followed by 

 a triangular deep chocolate-brown patch extending to the post- 

 medial line ; a slight incurved oblique line from lower angle of cell 

 to inner margin followed by some pale red-brown, then deep choco- 

 late-brown before the postmedial line, which is white defined on 

 inner side by black except at costa and vein 6, obliquely curved 

 from vein 6 to beyond lower angle of cell where it is strongly 

 incurved, then strongly excurved, a reddish-brown band beyond it 

 incurved and obsolescent below vein 6 ; the termen suffused with 

 red-brown except towards apex and tornus ; cilia reddish brown. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, the inner area irrorated with brown ; a 

 brown subterminal band, excurved at discal fold and ending on 

 termen at vein 1 ; the termen suffused with red-brown from apex 

 to submedian fold ; cilia pale red-brown. Underside golden yellow ; 

 fore wing with the costa and apical area irrorated with brown, 

 brown subterminal bars from costa and inner margin ; hind wing 

 irrorated with red-brown, traces of a cm-ved postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 2, the terminal shade faint. 



Ab. 1. atirantiaca. Hind wing orange-red. — Pontus. 



Ab. 2. fumata. Both wings thickl}^ irrorated with fuscovis ob- 

 scuring the markings. 



Scd). Austria, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Hungaey, Frey and 

 Leech Colls. ; Balkak States ; S. Russia ; Armenia ; Asia 

 Minor, Pontus; W. Turkestan, Chwalynsk {Christopli),! S , 

 Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Motlis Eur. p. 278 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 145, pi. 36. f. 22. 



Pale rusty yellow dotted with brownish, each somite with four 

 black Avarts, two pairs of ventral prolegs. Food-plant : Astragalus 

 onobrychis. 



7825. Gonospileia munita. 



Noctua munita, Hilbu. Eur. Schmett., Noct, f. 593 (1818); Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 241. 

 EucUdia angulosa, Ev. Nouv. M^ni. Mosc. ii. p. 353, pi. 19. f. 7 (1832). 

 Eiwlidia immmiita, Mill. Icones, ii. p. 406, pi. 92. f. 11(1867). 



Head and thorax pale rufous ; antennae with the shaft white 

 above towards base ; abdomen fulvous yellow. Fore wing pale 

 rufous with slight dark irroi'ation ; a triangular chocolate-brown 

 patch defined by white from just below costa before middle to 

 above middle of inner margin, its lower outer angle produced to a 

 point ; the outer part of medial area bright rufous except towards 

 costa, deeper towards the postmedial line where it is produced to an 

 acute angle beyond the cell ; postmedial line black defined on outer 

 side by white, faintly towards costa, obliquely incurved below 



