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angled outwards below costa, then oblique and strongly angled 

 outwards above iniier margin ; claviform elongate, defined by 

 whitish and black ; orbicular and reniform whitish with brown 

 centres, the former oblique, elliptical, or small and round, the latter 

 strongly angled inwards on median nervure, the cell before and 

 between them black ; the postmedial line defined by grey on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa,. excurved to vein 4, then incurved 

 and slightly angled outwards on vein 1 ; the subterminal line 

 greyish, angled outwards at vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle, 

 defined on inner side by a series of dentate black marks ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia with blackish line through them. 

 Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia whitish with brown line through 

 them ; the underside with the costal area greyish, an ill-dehued 

 curved postmedial line. 



Ab, 1. translens. Paler and intermediate to alpestrls, of which it 

 may be a variety. — C. Asia. 



Hab. France, Pyrenees ; Switzerland, Valais, Engadine, Ortler, 

 Zeller and Prey Colls.; Attsprta, Tyrol, Gr. Glockner ; Hunsary, 

 Leech Coll. ; jSTorwat, Zeller Coll. ; Eussia, St. Petersburg ; 

 W. Siberia, A-ltai ; W. Turkestan-, Ferghaua, Issyk-kul, Ala Tan, 

 Tarbagatai; E. TaRKEsxAN, Thian-Shan Mts. ; Mongolia, Uliassutai, 

 Changai Mts. ; Tibet, Amdo. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



946. Lycophotia alpestris. 



Nocfua ocellina. Hiibn. Sfhiiiett. Eur., Noct, f. 5'J9 (nee Schiif.). 

 Ghersotis alpestris, Boisd. Ic. Lep. Eur. pi. 7(5. tf. 4, 5 (1832) ; Diip. Lep. 



Er. Suppl. iii. p. 451, pi. 4U ; Herr.-Schaff". Schinstb. Eur. ii. pL i. 



ff. 5, G ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 142. 



Head and thorax reddish brown fo fuscous brown mixed with 

 grey ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi with pale rings ; 

 abdomen ochreous or greyish irrorated with dark brown. Poz'e 

 wing grey-brown ; the veins with pale streaks to the postmedial 

 line ; the subbasal line represented by oblique black strite from 

 costa and median nervure, defined by whitish on outer side and 

 with slight black streak beyond it in submedian fold ; the ante- 

 medial line double, filled in with greyish, the outer line strong, 

 blackish, shghtly angled outwards below costa and in cell and 

 more strongly above inner margin ; the claviform elongate, defined 

 by whitish and black ; the orbicular and reniform with whitish 

 centres defined by brown and whitish anuuli defined by black, 

 the former oblique, elliptical, the latter more or less strongly 

 angled inwards on median nervure, the cell between them slightly 

 suffused with black ; an indistinct waved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line defined by greyish on 

 outer side, minutely dentate, bent outwards below costa, slightly 

 angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, the area 

 beyond it with greyish dentate marks defining the dark veins and 

 interdigitating with the series of dentate black marks before the 

 indistinct greyish subterminal line, which is angled outwards at 

 vein 7, slightly excurved and somewhat dentate at middle; cilia. 



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