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NOCTtJIDiE. 



base, the tips chequered ochreous and brown. Hind wiug uniform 

 brown, the cilia ochreous. 



Hob. Tibet, Nan-Schan Mts. Exp. 36 millim. This species is 

 unknown to me ; in appearance it suggests an Agrotid of the genus 

 Episilia. 



2245. Ulochlaena hirta. 



Noctua hirta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 591 (1827) ; Boisd. Icones, 

 pi. 74. f . 1 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., SuppL iii. p. 176, pi. 16. f. 4 ; Fit. Neue Beitr. 

 vi. pi. 515. f. 4 ; Mill. Icones, i. p. 276, pi. 31. ff. 6-9 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 178. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen reddish brown mixed with grey ; 

 pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen mostly grey. Fore 

 wing reddish brown slightly suffused with fuscous, the veins, costal 

 and terminal areas greyish suffused with ochreous brown ; sub- 

 basal line represented by a black point below costa ; autemedial 

 line double, black filled in with whitish, angled outwards and 

 obsolescent below costa, then slightly incurved, bent inwards to 

 inner margin ; claviform whitish defined by black, elongate and 



Fig. 40. — Ulochlmia hirta, cT. \. 



rather acute at extremity ; orbicular and reniform small with 

 brown centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 round, the latter ra^ther quadrate and only defined at sides ; faint 

 traces of an oblique waved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line black defined by whitish on outer side, 

 oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, the inner 

 margin beyond it whitish ; subterminal line whitish defined on 

 inner side by dentate blackish marks, slightly waved and somewhat 

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

 series of small brown Innules ; cilia brownish ochreous with a dark 

 line near base. Hind wing ochreous brown with indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia whitish with 

 brown line near base ; the underside whitish tinged with brown 

 especially on costal area, a brown discoidal spot and curved post- 

 medial line. 



5 . Ochreous brown suffused with fuscous. 



Hah. S. France, Frey and Leech Colls. ; Sicily ; Algeria ; 

 Dalmatia ; Rtjmelia ; Eulgaeia ; S. EussiA, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls., Caucasus, Leech Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus, 

 Leech Coll.; N. Stria. Exp.,S , 2(5-38 millim. 



