240 nocxuiD^. 



with lateral black bars ; tegulae with medial black line ; meta- 

 thorax with the crest dark ; abdomen pale brownish. Fore wing 

 bluish grey more or less strongly suffused with brown ; the veins 

 with fine iDlack streaks ; fine black streaks in and below base of cell ; 

 subbasal line represented by an oblique striga from base of costa ; 

 antemedial line rather indistinct, dentate, more strongly in sub- 

 median fold and above inner margin ; claviform obsolete ; orbicular 

 represented by two obliquely -placed round whitish annuli defined 

 by black, the upper one sometimes obsolete ; reniform large with 

 whitish centre defined by brown and whitish annulus defined by 

 black ; the medial area usually with more or less developed broadly 

 diff'used black shade ; postmedial line strongly dentate, somewhat 

 bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, straight and 

 approximated to reniform beyond the cell, some white points on 

 costa beyond it ; subterminal line white, defined by brown on 

 inner side, dentate to near termen on veins 4, 3, and with wedge- 

 shaped black marks before it above veins 4 and 3, sometimes with 

 smaller marks above and below them ; a terminal series of slight 

 black lunules ; cilia chequered fuscous and grey. Hind wing 

 whitish tinged with brown, especially in female, the terminal area 

 suffused with brown ; cilia white ; the underside white irrorated 

 with brown, a discoidal spot and indistinct curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. cinerascens. Paler and greyer, fore wing with the 

 markings less prominent. 



Ab. 2. Head, thorax, and fore wing much deeper blue-grey 

 tinged with fuscous instead of brown ; hind wing mostly suffused 

 with fuscous. — Alberta. 



Hah. Canada, Hudson's Bay, St. Martin's Falls (Barnston), 2$, 

 {Noi-man), 1 cJ , 1 $ ; Manitoba, Winnipeg, 1 S , Alberta, Calgary 

 \Wolley-Dod), 3^,2$; U.S.A., Northern and Eastern States, 

 New York, 3 c?, 1?? Pennsylvania, Ij; Britain, Leech Coll.; 

 Fkance ; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria, Leech 

 Coll. ; Hungary ; Switzerland ; Kussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., 

 Esthonia, Frey Coll., Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, 

 Amurland. Exp. 48-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 51 ; Ban-ett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 46, pi. 236. f. 3. 



Dark purplish brown ; dorsal line blue-grey, darker edged ; 

 spiracular line broad, pale yellow, finely black-edged above; a 

 black mark in front of 1st somite ; head pale brown. Food- 

 plant, Vaccinium. 5-6. 



2390. Cloantha puUa. 



Noctuapulla, Schiff. Wien.Verz. p. 76 (1776); Eiibu. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



ff. 238 & 692-3; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 226, pi. 114. f. 4; Herr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 606 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 170 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 2l2. 

 Noctuafelixii, Frr. Neue Beitr. iv. pi. 311. f. 4 (1842). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen grey mixed with brownish fuscous ; 

 palpi streaked with black at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulse 



