606 NOCTUIDiE. 



Hob. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Frakce {Sand) ; Germany, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Hungary, Leech. Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. : N". Italy ; 

 Balkan States ; S, liirssiA ; "VV. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, 

 Ala-taii. Exp. 34-40 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 107 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 228, pi. 214. f. 2. 



Pinkish brown with suffused dark medial segmental bands ; 

 dorsal line obscurely paler ; subdorsal line narrow, interrupted, 

 pale yellow ; spiracular line brownish, anteriorly yellow ; head 

 pinkish brown with darker markings. Food-plants ; Rume.v, 

 Plautago, Stellaria, etc. 4-6. 



1052. Mythimna csecimaciila. 



Noctua ccBcimacula, Schiff. Wien. Vei-z. p. 81 (1776) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 69, pi. 77 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 137 ; Staucl. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 178. 

 Noctua oniUegrana, Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 150. f. 1 (1786). 

 Noctua rcspersa, Brahiii. Ins. p. 541 (1791). 

 Ammoconia sibirica, Staucl. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1882, p. 37. 



S . Head and thorax grey, the hairs tipped with brown and a 

 few with black ; palpi blackish at sides ; abdomen grey mixed with 

 fuscous. Fore wing brownish grey irrorated with black ; a waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, becoming black below 

 the cell ; a sinuous brown antemedial line angled outwards below 

 the costa and with a black mark on it below the cell ; orbicular and 

 reniform large, deiined bj' brown, the former elliptical ; an oblique 

 medial shade from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; the area 

 beyond the cell suffused with brown ; a minutely waved postmedial 

 line defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 

 excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; a pale dentate subterminal line 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 white slightly irrorated with brown, the terminal area suffused 

 with brown ; a dark terminal line. Underside of both wings with 

 black discoidai spots. 



5 . Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white. 



Ab. 1. sibirica. Paler ; the fore wing ochreous or yellowish. — 

 Altai. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, 

 Frey Coll. ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Italy ; Sicily ; Dalmatia ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 S . Exp. 42-54 millim. 



1053. Mythimna senex. 



Noctua senex, Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 749-50 (1834) ; Staucl. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 

 Folia vetula, Boiad. Ind. Metb. p. 127 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iv. 



p. 93, pi. 58. f. 4 (1842); Herr.-Scbatf. Scbmett. Eur., Noct. f. 108; 



Mill. Ic. iii. pi. 146. ff. 7-9. 

 Ammoconia mediorhenana, Fucbs, Jlirb. Nass. 1892, p. 91. 



(S . Head and thorax white mixed with pale brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with ochreous 



