MYTHIMNA. 607 



and fuscous. Fore wing white irrorated with brown ; an indistinct 

 waved subbasal line from costa to snbmedian fold ; an indistinct, 

 double, waved antemedial line, sometimes with slight dark spot 

 below the cell ; orbicular and reniform large, obscurely defined by 

 brown, the former round ; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; traces of 

 a dentate subterminal line ; a terminal series of black points. 

 Hind wing white, slightly irrorated with brown especially towards 

 termen. Underside of both wings with discoidal spots. 



2 . Hind wing fuscous brown, the cilia white. 



Ab. 1. mediorhenana. Fore wing almost uniform grey. 



Hab. S. Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Switzerland ; Italz ; Sicily : 

 IsTEiA ; Dalmatia ; Gkeece, Leech Coll. ; Asia Minoe, Pontus, 

 1 S,l $ . JExjy. 42-46 millim. 



Larva. Mill. Icones, iii. p. 366, pi. 146. ff. 7-9. 



Ochreous, thickly irrorated with brown ; dorsal line fine, dark ; 

 a broad whitish lateral line ; the ventral surface greenish. Food- 

 plants : when young, low-growing plants ; when older, the flowers 

 of Cahjcotome sjnnosa. 6. 



Sect. III. {Mythimna). Antennaj of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line produced to points on 



the veins. 



a. Fore wing with the stigmata clearly defined sohrina. 



b. Fore wing with the stigmata very indistinct Indiana. 



B. Fore wing with the postmedial line not produced to points 



on the veins. 



a. Fore wing with the antemedial line incurved below cell... blanda. 



b. Fore wing with the antemedial line not incurved below cell. 



a'-. Fore wing pale reddish-brown acetoseUm. 



b^. Fore wing grey-brown oxalina. 



1054. Mythimna sobrina. 



Noctua sobrina, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 10.5 (1840) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iv. 

 p. 224, pi. 69. f. 5 ff. ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 127, 129 ; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 136. 

 Noctua mista, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. pi. 441. f. 3 (1845), nee Hilbn. 

 Noctua lap'ponica, Frr. Beitr. Eur. Schmett. pi. 455. f. 4 (1845). 

 Orthosia gruneri, Gruen. Noct. i. p. 336 (1852) ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iv. 



pi. 69. f. 5. 



Head and tegulae bright, rufous; thorax grey suffused with 

 purplish red ; tarsi fuscous with ochreous rings ; abdomen ochreous 

 brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface more rufous. Fore wing- 

 grey, irrorated with brown and suffused with rufous or purplish red, 

 wholly or on terminal half ; a slight waved subbasal line from costa 

 to submedian fold with a point beyond it in cell ; a waved ante- 

 medial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by brown, the former 

 round, the latter with some fuscous on its lower part ; a somewhat 

 waved medial shade angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; the 

 postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent 

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

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



