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ochreous points on costa ; subterminal line ochreous defined by 

 rufous on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then 

 oblique ; a terminal series of slight brown lunules. Hind wing 

 fuscous brown, the cilia greyish ochreous with a slight fuscous line 

 through them. Underside grey irrorated with brown ; fore wing 

 with the cell and area below it suffused with brown, a sinuous dark 

 postmedial line and subterminal line ; hind wing with black 

 diseoidal spot and curved sinuous ]30stmedial line. 



Hob. Beitain, Leech Coll. ; Feance, Sand Coll. ; Geemany, Zeller, 

 Prey, and Leech Colls. ; Atjsteia ; Hungaey ; Switzerland, Leech 

 Coll. ; Spain ; jST. Italy ; Russia, Livonia, Leech Coll. ; Armenia : 

 Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 36-40 milliui. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 63; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 351, pi. 229. f. 1. 



Brown sometimes tinged with purple or reddish ; dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines white, interrupted, with dark edges ; spiracular 

 line broad, ochreous white ; tubercular points white. Food-plant,. 

 Salix fragilis. 5- 6 . 



2696. Amathes macilenta. 



Noctua unimaculina, Haw. Prod. Lep. Brit. p. 15 (1802), non descr. 

 Noctua macilenta, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 239 (1809); Hilbn. Eur. Sehmett., 



Noct. f. 418 (1827) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 64, pi. 104. f. 5; Frr. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 251 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 68 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 206. 

 Noctua flaviUnea, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 243 (1809) ; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 148, pi. 19. f. 2. 

 Orthosia nigrodentata, Fuchs, Jahrb. Nass. Ver. Iii. p. 135 (1899). 



Head and thorax fulvous ; sides of palpi and frons black ; 

 antennae blackish at middle ; tarsi blackish at extremities ; abdomen 

 fulvous yellow. Fore wing fulvous yellow ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by small black spots below costa and cell ; autemedial line 

 indistinct with black points on the costa and veins, oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform with faint pale outlines, the former round, the latter 

 constricted at middle, its lower part filled in with black ; a diffused 

 medial line angled outwards to lower angle of cell ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate 

 and produced to black points on the veins, oblique below vein 4; 

 subterminal line fine, red-brown defined on each side by whitish, 

 slightly angled outwards at vein 7, then oblique ; a fine waved 

 brown terminal line. Hind wing ochreous almost wholly suffused 

 with fuscous, the medial part of termen and cilia pale rufous ; the 

 underside ochreous irrorated with fuscous, a black diseoidal spot 

 and diffused sinuous postmedial line showing through to upper side. 



Ab. 1. nigrodentata. Fore wing with the subbasal, ante- and 

 postmedial lines black and strongly dentate. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; 

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

 Switzerland ; W. Italy ; ? Sicily ; Scandinavia ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus. Exp. 32-36 millim. 



