418 NOCTUIDiE. 



2614. Sympistis funesta. 



Nocfua funesia, Payk. Skriv. Nat. Sels. 1793 p. 100, pi. 2. f. 3 ; Zett. Ins. 



Lapp. p. 950 

 Nociua fioiiebris, Hiibn. Eui-. Sehmett., Noct. f. 433 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. 



Tii.p. 299, pi. 118. f.5; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Sehmett., Noet. ff. 209-10; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 219 ; Smith. Cat. Noet. N. Am. p. 295. 

 Anarta nigrita, Diip. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iv. p. 97, pi. 58. f. 6. (nee Boisd.). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown with some whitish hair. 

 Pore wing black-brown suffused with grey, the medial area darker 

 except bej'ond reniform ; subbasal line black, from costa to vein 1 ; 

 anteraedial line black, rather diffused, excurved from below costa to 

 vein 1 where it is angled inwards, then again excurved; orbicular and 

 reuiform small with dark centres aj>d faint greyish annuli slightly 

 defined by black, the former round ; traces of a sinuous medial line ;, 

 l^ostmedial line blaclv, obliquely excurved from just below costa to 

 vein 5, then incurved and again excurved below submedian fold ;. 

 subterminal line diffused, blackish, angled outwards at veins 6, 7 with 

 slight dentate black marks before it at middle, incurved below vein 

 3, with blackish mark beyond it above tornus ; a fine black 

 terminal line ; cilia black-brown slightly mixed with grey. Hind 

 wing black-brown ; cilia white, brownish at base towards apex. 

 Underside black-brown, the fore wing slightly suffused with grej^ 

 except terminal area. 



Hah Labrador ; Switzerland, Leech Coll., Gadmenthal, Frey 

 Coll. ; ScANBiNAViA ; Lapland ; N.E. Siberia. Exp. 30 millim. 



Genus HYPSOPHILA. 



Type. 



Hypsophila, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 40 jugomm.. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned to vertex of head and fringed with 

 very long hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes small, reniform ; autenn£e of male 

 with fascicles of long cilia ; head and thorax clothed with long woolly hair 

 only and without crests; pectus and legs clothed with woolly hair'; abdomen 

 clothed with woolly hair and without crests. Fore wing triangular, the termen 

 obhquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 

 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing 

 with veins 3,4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars^ 

 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A. Hind wing white with black discoidal spot and terminal 



band. 

 a. Hind wing with the inner edge of terminal band slightly 



incurved below vein 3 tavierkma. 



h. Hind wing with the inner edge of terminal band angled 



outwards at discal fold, then strongly incurved jugorum. 



B. Hind wing with tlie basal area black-brown with a greenish 



grey tinge grumi. 



2615. HypsopMla tamerlana. (Plate CVI. fig. 1.) 



HyiKophila tamerlana, Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 220 (1901). 



(J. Head and thorax clothed with greenish-grey hair tinged 

 with brown; legs with black and white hair; abdomen black 



