(308 >'0CTT7ID3i:. 



middle. Hind wing ochreous whitish, suffused with fuscous brown, 

 the cilia rufous ; the underside whitish, the costal area tinged with 

 purplish red, the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, 

 a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. grunerl. Almost without the red shades. 



Hah. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll, ; S. Fkance, Frey Coll. ; 

 Germai^y, Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland ; Sweden, Lapland ; Russia, 

 Livonia, St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 

 36-38 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 80, pi. 144. f. 2. 



Reddish brown ; sides freckled with grey ; dorsal and subdorsal 

 lines pale; dots minute, black; head brownish ochreous. Food- 

 plants : birch, Calluna. 9-6. 



1055. Mythimiia Indiana, 



Agrotis indiana, Gnen. Noct. i. p. 302 (18.32). 



Tiraeola violacea, Butl. 111. Het. vii. p. 54, pi. 127. f. 5 (1889) ; Hmpsu. 

 Moths Ind. ii. p. 196. 



Head and thorax dark purplish red-brown : abdomen fuscous 

 brown, the aual tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing purplish red- 

 brown, very sparsely irrorated with white ; a very indistinct oblique 

 waved antemedial line ; orbicular and reniform indistinctly outlined 

 with red-brown, the former round ; an indistinct diffused medial 

 shade angled on median nervure ; the postmedial line very indistinct, 

 dentate, and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; traces of a dentate white 

 subtermiual line, with red-brown marks on its inner side ; a fine 

 pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing fuscous brown, with ochreous 

 line at base of cilia ; the underside irrorated with white and with 

 indistinct sinuous postmedial line. 



Mab. India, type t J in Coll. Oberthur ; Kashmir (Thompson), 

 1 2 '■> Kuiu, Sultanpore (G. Young), 2 $ ; Kangra, Dharmsala 

 {HocJdnfj), 2 d 5 2 5 , type violacea. Exp. 52-60 millim. 



1056. Mytliimna blanda. (Plate LXXVT. fig. 19,) 



Clwcphora hlancla, Grote, Bull. Buff'. Soc. Nat. Sci. iii. p. 86 (1875) ; Smith, 



Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 210. 

 PseudogleBCt tmdata, Grote, Can. Ent. viii. p. 18 (1876). 

 Pseudoglaa decepta, Grote, Bull. Geol. Surv. vi. p. 271 (1881). 



Pale chestnut to grey-brown ; head and thorax with the hair 

 pale at tips ; the thorax sometimes suffused with blackish. Fore 

 Aving irrorated with black ; an oblique antemedial blackish line 

 defined by grey on inner side, excurved in cell and to inner margin 

 and incurved in submedian interspace ; orbicular and reniform 

 tinged with fuscous and with pale annuli, the former oblique, the 

 latter large ; postmedial line punctiform, blackish, defined by whitish 

 on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, then oblique ; sub- 

 termiual line pale, with series of black points on its inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal 



