172 NOCTTJIDiE. 



margin ; the underside pale, with, the costal area grey irrorated 

 with brown, a small black discoidal spot. 



Hah. Mongolia, Changai Mts. ; Siberia, Kentei, 1 S • Exp. 46 

 millim. 



297. Euxoa corticea. 



Noctua corticea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. 81. 13 (1776) ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 145 ; Godt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 250, pi. 68. fP. 3, 4 ; Stepb. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 114 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 181 ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 151.. 

 NocttM sincera, Err. Neu Beitr. Schmett. pi. 544. f. 2 (1852). 

 JSTocttca obscura, Err. Neu Beitr. Schmett. pi. 628. fP. 1, 2 (1858). 

 Noctua transversa, Wlk. x. 354 (1856). 

 Agrotis fraterna, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 116 (1882). 

 Agrotis amurensis, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. ^. 421 (1892). 



S . Head and thorax red-brown, more or less strongly mixed 

 with grey ; palpi blackish at sides, except at tips ; tegulae with 

 black medial line ; pectus and legs strongly mixed with black, the 

 tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen pale, strongly suffused with fuscous 

 brown. Fore wing grey, more or less strongly tinged and striated 

 with red-brown, or wholly red-brown ; the costal area tinged with 

 fuscous ; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold ; a double waved antemedial line ; claviform outlined with 

 black, elongate, and usually well-developed ; orbicular and reniform 

 with black centres and outline and pale annuli, the former usually 

 small or moderate, round, the latter usually with its lower 

 extremity more or less angled inwards on median nervure ; the 

 postmedial line double, minutely dentate, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved close round outer side of reniform, then 

 oblique ; the subterminal line indistinct, pale, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle, with slight brown marks on its 

 inner side ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white or 

 pale brown, the veins, costal and terminal areas darker brown ; 

 a fine dark terminal line and line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the orbicular large, quadrate, open above. 



Ab. 2. obscura. Darker ; fore wing with the medial area usually 

 suffused with black. 



Hab. Britaust, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Mutzell & Zeller Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Spain ; Scan- 

 dinavia ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan ; Kashmir, 

 Narkundah (McArthtir), 2 d' , 2 § , Jalauri Pass, 1 c? , Dana, 1 $ , 

 Kokser, 2 cT , 2 $ , Barra Larcha, 3 $ ; Ktjlu, Sultanpur, 3 c? , 1 $ , 

 Simla (Swinhoe), 1 5 , Thundiani {Yerbury), 2 J , 1 5 , Dalhousie, 

 1 (S , 12; Kangra, Dharmsala (HocMng), 5 c? , 1 $ ; Sikhim (Atkin- 

 son, Dudgeon), 3 cJ , 1 $ type fraterna ; Assam, Nagas : Nilgiris, 

 (Swinhoe), 1 (^ ; Madagascar, Betsileo (Cotuan), 1 S ; hab. ignotus, 

 type 5 transversa. Exp. 40-42 millim. 



TMrva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 91 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 295, pi. 126. f. 1. 



Eather rough ; brownish grey with dark freckles ; dorsal line 



