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reddish-brown lateral stripe; ventral surface pale yellow. Food- 

 plants, Primula, &c. 4-5. 



2534. Antitype manisadjiani. (Plate CIV. fig. 25.) 



Folia manisadjiani. Stand. Hor. Ent. Soc. Eoss. xvi. p. 73 (1881) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 179. 



S • Head and thorax grey mixed with black and slightly with 

 olive-yellow ; fore tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen white 

 slightly tinged with ochreous and irrorated with brown ; diffused 

 dorsal fuscous bands. Fore wing white irrorated with fuscous ; 

 the basal area suffused with blaclvish, its outer edge oblique, waved, 

 with some yellow scales on it ; the subbasal line represented by two 

 black striae from costa ; the medial area fuscous black with obscure 

 yellowish streaks in discal and submedian folds ; antemedial line 

 obscurely double, the inner line almost obsolete, oblique, minutely 

 dentate ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and renilbrra defined 

 by black, the former round, the latter with more or less developed white 

 points on its outer edge and with rather irregular outline ; post- 

 medial line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to points on the veins, incurved 

 below vein 4, some fuscous suffusion bej^ond it on costa with white 

 points on it ; subterminal line indistinct, white, defined on inner 

 side by minute dentate blaclc and yellowish marks, dentate at veins 

 7, 6, 4, 3, some fuscous suffusion beyond it at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia yellowish 

 white and fuscous with blackish line through them. Hind wing- 

 white, the terminal area irrorated with fuscous ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia white, with blackish line through them from 

 apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal point. 



Hob. Asia Minob, Pontus, 2 c? . Exp. 38-42 miilim. 



2535. Antitype flavicincta. 



Noctua flavicincta, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 72 (1776) ; Fab. Maut. Ins. ii. 



p. 178 (1787) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 46 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 401, pi. 98. f. 1 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 32 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 179. 

 Noctua flavicincta-major, Esp. Schmett. iv. pL 153. IF. 1-3 (1790). 

 Noctua clysodea, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 153. ff. 4-6 (1790), nee ScbifF. 

 Folia meridionalis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 127 (1840). 

 Folia calvescens, Boisd. Ind. Meth. p. 127 (1840). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with fuscous, often with some 

 yellowish scales ; tarsi banded black and white ; abdomen grey 

 tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous, thickly on dorsum. 

 Fore wing grey-white thickly irrorated with fuscous, and with more 

 or less prominent orange streaks in submedian fold and above inner 

 margin ; subbasal line double filled in with white, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold : antemedial line defined bv whitish on inner 



