310 NOCTUID^. 



white slightly irrorated -with brown, the discoidal spot, waved post- 

 medial line, and subterminal spot prominent. 



Hah. Britain, Gloucester (once) ; France, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary : Switzerland ; 

 Spain, Andalusia ; Korth and Centr. Italy ; Asia Minor ; Pontus ; 

 Persia, TTrumiah {Daliry), 2 § . E^vjo. 52-60 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 56 ; Hffni. Eaup. p. 95, pi. 27. f. 2. 



Brown, darker anteriorly ; dots pale ; spiracular line pale, dark- 

 edged above; 11th somite with two tubercles. Food-plant, Elm. 

 5-6. 



*2477. Meganephria sabulosa. 



Miselia sahiilosa, Gra^s. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1892, p. 222 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. 

 pal. p. 181. 



2 . Head, thorax, and abdotaen pale grey tinged with brown. Fore 

 wing pale grey irrorated with dark scales forming irregular patches 

 on middle of basal area, on medial area between the stigmata and 

 on terminal area ; a subbasal black mark in cell ; antemedial line 

 grey, evenly dentate, oblique ; stigmata large, grey with dark 

 centres and defined by blackish ; the reniform angled inwards on 

 median nervure and with white spot at lower extremity ; post- 

 medial line slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some dark striae and pale points 

 beyond it on costa : subterminal line broad, whitish, defined on 

 inner side by brown patches at costa and submedian fold where it is 

 angled inwards ; a terminal series of blackish lunules ; cilia fuscous 

 grey intersected with whitish. Hind wing grey with dark terminal 

 line, the cilia yellowish ; the underside yellowish irrorated with 

 grey, a dark discoidal spot and terminal line. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, Chabarofka. Ex2J. 37 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



2478. Meganephria funesta. (Plate CIII. fig. 22.) 



Miseliafunesta, Leech, P. Z. S. 1889, p. 503, pi. 51. f. 7. 



5 . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with reddish brown ; 

 tegula3 with slight pale curved line ; abdomen deep fuscous brown. 

 Fore wing with the ground-colour pale, almost entirely suff'used 

 with deep red-brown and very thickly irrorated with black ; sub- 

 basal line represented by slight dark striae from costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line indistinct, diff'used, double, oblique from costa to 

 vein 1, then bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform large, very 

 indistinctly defined by black ; orbicular and reniform pale defined 

 by fuscous and their centres defined by fuscous, the former round, 

 the latter somewhat produced at upper angle ; postmedial line in- 

 distinct, slightly defined by whitish on outer side, strongly bent 

 .outwards below costa, then waved, very oblique below vein 4, a 

 short black streak beyond it below vein 2 : subterminal line very 

 indistinct, pale, waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 strongly incurved in submedian interspace ; a fine waved terminal 



