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7834. Csenurgia fortalitium. 



Nociua fortaliiimn, Taiisch. Meio. Mosc. 1809, p. 323, pi. 20. f. 7 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 241. 

 NoctuafortaMlium, Hubn. Enr. Schmett., Noct. f. 592 (1818) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 523, pi, 44. f. 5 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 399. ff. 3, 4. 



J . Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; abdomen grey 

 irrorated with black-brown. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with 

 dark brown ; an oblique wedge-shaped brown patch from the cell, 

 where it extends from near base to near extremity, to just above 

 middle of Aein 1, edged by black and defined by white except 

 above, its outer edge angled inwards at submedian fold ; a wedge- 

 shaped brown patch in end of cell with a black spot in lower angle, 

 followed b}^ the oblique whitish medial band ; a brown postmedial 

 band from below costa to submedian fold, edged by black and 

 defined by white except above, its inner edge oblique, its outer edge 

 excnrved above, then incurved and angled outwards at submedian 

 fold to near the subterminal line, which is white and strong, defined 



Fig. 18. — Ccenurgia fortalitium, J. 



on inner side by brown suffusion at costa and blackish spots above 

 and below veins 7 and 9, defined on outer side by dark brown 

 except towards tornus ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia Mnth 

 two bro-wai lines through them. Hind wing ochreous whitish 

 suffused and irrorated with broAvn ; a narrow ochreous whitish post- 

 medial band, angled inwards beyond lower angle of cell and bent 

 inwards to inner margin ; an ochreous white subterminal line ; the 

 underside grey-white irrorated with brown, faint postmedial and 

 subterminal dark shades except on inner area. 



Hah. EussiA, Urals, Id"; W. Sibebia, Altai ; E. Turkestak, 

 Thian Shan Mts. Eivp. 34 millim. 



