416 NOCTUIDiE. 



cilia brown at base, chequered white and brown at tips ; the 

 underside with tbe costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, 

 a slight discoidal lunula. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the stigma V-shaped. 



Hah. N.E. Germany; Austbia, Tirol; Scandinayta, Lap- 

 land, Leech Coll. ; Finland, Leech Coll. ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll., St. Petersburg, Zellex^, Frey, & Leech Colls. ; ? Balkan States. 

 Exi). 30-32 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 272 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 299. 



Violet slightly irrorated with white, and with yellow lateral line. 



Food-plant, Salix. 4-5. 



8231. Syngrapha oropliila. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 5.) 



Autographa diasema, Ottoleugui, J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. viii. f. 6 (ncc 



Boisd.). 

 Plusia orophila, Ilmpan. Can. Eiit. xl. p. 105 (1908). 



Head and thorax blue-grey mixed with brown ; tarsi dark brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown, 

 ventrally irrorated with brown. Fore wing blue-grey slightly 

 irrorated with black, the medial area below the cell very deep 

 chocolate-brown ; subbasal line slight, blackish, sinuous, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line blackish defined on inner side by whitish, 

 excurved below costa, incurved in cell, then obliquely curved ; 

 orbicular with very slight whitish annulus and its centre faintly 

 defined by brown above; a large U-shaped silvery-Avhite stigma 

 filled in with grey beloAV the cell ; reniform with slight silvery- 

 white annuhis defined at sides by black-brown and its centre defined 

 by black-brown, constricted at middle ; postmedial line double, 

 dark brown filled in with whitish, bent outwards below costa and 

 incm'ved below discal fold ; the terminal area tinged with brown 

 except towards tornus ; a slight minutely waved brown subterminal 

 line defined on outer side by grey and slightly excurved below veins 

 7 and 6 ; a terminal series of slight dark lunules defined on inner 

 side by whitish. Hind wing yellow, the basal and inner areas 

 irrorated with brown, the terminal area dark brown ; cilia white 

 with a brown line through them ; the underside yellow, the costal 

 area irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area suffused ivith red- 

 brown, a slight discoidal lunule. 



Hah. Canada, Br. Columbia, Brobokton Creek {Mrs, JSficlioll), 

 7 d', 1 $ tjrpe ; U.S.A., Washington Forest Reserve, Early 

 Winter Creek {Mrs. Niclioll), 1 d . JExy. 34-40 millim. 



8232. Syngrapha diasema. (Plate CCXXXVI. fig. 6.) 



Plusia diasema., Boisd. Ind. IMeth. p. 93 (1829) ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. 



Sclimett., Noct. f. 597 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 256 ; Stand. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 239. 

 Plusia borea, Auriv. Biliang K. Svensk. Vet.-Akad. Handl. xv. 4. i. p. 17, 



pi. i. f. 8 (1890). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with dark red-brown ; tarsi dark 

 brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey suffused with brown, the 



