MYTHIMKA. 



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series of black points or crenulate line. Hind wing pale, tinged 

 with pinkish or fuscous ; the cilia ochreous or rufous : the underside 

 with discoidal point and slightly curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Caistada, Br. Columbia, Vancouver I., 1 $ type ; U.S.A., 

 Texas {Belfrage), 1 5 type tcedata, Washington Terr., Colorado, 

 1 c? type decepta, California {Walsingliam), 1 S- Exp. 44-46 

 millim, 



10-57. Mythimna acetosellse. 



Noctua acetosellm, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p.' 84 (1776) ; Hiibn. Samml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 220; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 128, pi. 109. f. 2 ; Stand. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202. 

 Noctua acetosellm, var. eremicola, Staud. Cat. p. 114 (1871). 



Head and thorax ochreoxis mixed with red-brown; palpi deep rufous; 

 abdomen brownish orange, the ventral surface pale. Fore wing pale 

 grey-brown irrorated with black ; an oblique antemedial brown line 

 defined by whitish on inner side ; orbicular and reuiform large, 

 with whitish annuli, the former round ; postmedial line brown, 

 defined by whitish on outer side, excurved from costa to vein 4, 

 then incurved ; an indistinct, pale, minutely waved subtermiual 

 line with blackish spots on its inner side, often almost obsolete ; 

 cilia red-brown at tips. Hind wing pale pinkish brown, irrorated 

 with fuscous and suffused with fuscous towards termen, leaving the 

 termen and cilia ochreous brown ; the underside pale yellowish, 

 with discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. eremicola. Paler; fore wing wholly striated with black. — 

 Altai. 



Rab. Beixain, once ; Feance ; Geemakt, Zeller Coll. ; Hungaey, 

 Frey Coll. ; Italy ; S. Rtjssia, Sarepta, 1 S ; Aemenia ; Asia 

 MiNOE, Pontus, Taurus ; W. Sibeeia, Altai, 1 cS . Exp. 36-40 

 millim. 



1058. Mythimna oxalina. 



Noctua oxalina, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 219 (1827); Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Tii. p. 130, pi. 109. f. 3 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 202 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N. Am. p. 211. 

 Ipimorpha intexta, Harr. Can. Ent. Tii. p. 136 (1875). 



Head and thorax reddish brown, the hairs tipped with grey : antennae 

 with the shaft whitish above ; abdomen yellow-brown, the ventral 



Fig. 107. — Mythimna oxalina, (^ . \. 



surface reddish browu mixed with grey. Fore wing yellowish 

 brown, suffused with purple-grey and irrorated with fuscous, the 

 medial area slightly browner ; a very oblique brown antemedial line 



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