very indistinctly defined by blackish, and with a quadrate black 

 spot between them on the more or less developed diffused waved 

 medial shade ; the postmedial line strongly dentate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal 

 line defined by diffused black on its inner side, slightly angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 black points. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown ; the terminal 

 area fuscous brown ; cilia white ; the underside whiter, the costal 

 and terminal areas irrorated with brown ; a curved brown post- 

 medial line to both wings. 



Ab. 1. thianschanica. Smaller ; fore wing greyish white with 

 the markings less prominent. — Hi ; Thianschan Mts. 



Ab. 2. hyrcana. Yellowish grey ; the wings almost without 

 markings below, — Persia. 



Hah. Pkance, Pyrenees, Cannes, Leech Coll. ; Italy ; Switzer- 

 land, Zeller and Prey Colls. ; Hujjgary and Silesia, mountains ; 

 Scandinavia; Persia; E. Tukkestan, Hi, Thianschan Mts. E.vp. 

 40-42 millim. 



Larva. Ruhl, Soc. Ent. i. p. 138. 



Head yellow-green with dark points ; body fuscous green with 

 dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral white lines and oblique dark subdorsal 

 marks. Food-plant, Leontodon taraxacum. 



420. Euxoa decora. 



Noctua decora, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 313 (1776) ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett. Noct. f. 45 ; Dup. L6p. Fr. vi. p. 84, pi. 78 ; lierr.-SclmfF. 



Schinett. Eur. ii. p. 334. f. 459; Eoisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pi. 81. f. 2; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144. 

 l^cctua nebiiXosa, Hiibn. Satnml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 402 (1827). 

 Agrotis marcens, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 90 (1893). 

 Agrotis livida, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 144 (1901). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown ; tarsi banded 

 with fuscous ; abdomen whitish, dorsally tinged with brown, and 

 with ochreous towards extremity. Fore wing grey mixed with 

 pale brown ; traces of a waved subbasal line from costa to submedian 

 fold • a waved antemedial line ; claviform sometimes present, 

 yellowish ; orbicular and reniform indistinct, whitish or yellowish, 

 the former round, a waved medial shade passing between them, 

 oblique from costa to lower angle of cell where it is angled ; a 

 dentate postmedial line strongly bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subtorminal line whitish, defined by 

 dark suffusion on inner side, obscurely dentate, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a fine pale line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing whitish ; the veins brown ; the terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; cilia white with a brown line near base ; underside 

 white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a curved 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. livida. Much darker; fore wing leaden grey ; hind wing 

 fuscous. — High Alps : Caucasus. 



