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medial line, which is very highly angled outwards in interspaces and 

 inwards on the veins ; orbicular elliptical with red-brown centre and 

 white annulus partially defined by black ; a white bar in cell before 

 the reniform, which has a brown centre and greyish annulus incom- 

 pletely defined by black ; an indistinct curved medial shade ; post- 

 medial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, minutely waved, 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; terminal 

 area suffused with whitish, with dark streaks on the veins and short 

 black streaks in the interspaces below costa above vein 4 and below 

 2 ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing yellowish 

 white tinged with brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with 

 brown ; the underside with slight discoidal spot. 



Bah. E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Yesso (Pryer), 1 J, Hakodate 

 (Leech), 1 $ ; Coeea, Gensan (Ito), 1 $ ; N, China. Exp. 40 millim, 



2103. CucuUia absinthii. 



Noctua ahsinthii, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 314 (1761) ; Clerck, Icones, pi. 8. 



f. 9; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 116. ff. 1-3; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 



268 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 418, pi. 12.5. f. 7 ; Frr. Beitr. iv. pi. 321 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haiist. iii.p. 91 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 217. 

 Hoctiia 'punctigcra, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 416 (1767). 



Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides : Irons with black bars ; tegulse with black line 

 near base, two slight medial brown lines and brown tips ; patagia 

 with some black scales near upper edge which is brown ; abdomen 

 grey irrorated with brown, the dorsal crests black. Pore wing 

 grey-white mostly suffused with brown; the subbasal line represented 

 by two black strise from costa, a short streak in cell and striga from 

 median nervure; antemedialline double, diffused, irregularly waved, 

 strongly angled inwards on vein 1 and outwards above inner margin ; 

 claviform obsolete with diffused white patch beyond it ; orbicular 

 with brown centre with two black spots on it and white annulus 

 defined by black spots and forming a figure-of-8-shaped mark ; a 

 black patch from costa to median nervure before the reniform, 

 which has a brown centre with black spot on it above and two below 

 and indistinct white annulus defined by black spots ; postmedial 

 line double towards costa and inner margin and almost obsolete at 

 middle, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 incurved, the costa beyond it black with grey points on it ; the 

 veins of terminal area with slight dark streaks, a black streak above 

 vein 6 and spot below vein 2 ; the subterminal line represented by 

 slight diffused brown and white streaks ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules. Hind wing white tinged with brown, the veins and 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; cilia white ; the underside with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a discoidal 

 point. 



Hob. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Italy ; Sweden ; Russia, 



