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whitish tinged with red-brown, the costal area strongly irrorated 

 with white. 



Ab. 1. pallida. Paler : hind wing tinged with fuscons instead of 

 red-brown. 



Rab. Germany, Zeller Coll. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; 

 Switzerland ; Algeria ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Lydia, Pontus ; 

 Syria ; Persia ; W. Siberia, Altai. Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 192 ; Hffm. Raup. p. 111. 



Green with a dark dorsal line and whitish subdorsal line. 

 Food-plant, Hieracium. 5-6. 



2766. Ampliipyra tragopogims. 



Noctiia fragopoglnis, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 316(1761); Clerck, Icones, pi. 1. 



f. 5 ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 170. ff. 1,2; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



f. 40; Godart, Lep. Fr. v. p. 145, pi. 57. f. 3; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 165 ; Smith, Cat. Moct. N. Am. p. 197 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 200. 

 Nodua luciola, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii_. p. 294 (1767). 

 Agrotis repressus, Grote, Can. Ent. iii. p. 192 (1871). 

 AmpMpyra turcumana, Staud. Stett, ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 32, 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale glossy red-brown ; palpi fuscous 

 brown ; pectus and legs darker red-brown. Fore wing pale glossy 

 red-brown irrorated with a few white scales ; subbasal, autemedial, 

 and postmedial lines absent ; orbicular represented by a blackish 

 point, the reniform by two points ; subterminal line represented by 

 a series of white points on the veins with a dark brown shade 

 before them incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of slight black 



Fig. 6. — Anvpliipyva tragopoginh, <$ 



lunnles ; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing whitish 

 suffased with pale red-brown, the terminal area darker ; a fine 

 waved dark terminal line ; cilia red-brown with a fine yellowish 

 line at base ; the underside whitish tinged with rufous, the costal 

 and terminal areas to vein 2 red-brown irrorated with whitish, a 

 small dark discoidal spot. 



Ab. 1. turcomana. Paler; fore wing leaden grey with a yellowish 

 tinge. 



Hah. Canada, Ottawa (Fletcher, Gibson, Saunders), 2 c? , 2 $ ; 

 TT.S.A., N.E. States to Pennsylvania and west to the Mississippi, 

 New 'York, Buffalo, 1 $ , Evans Center (Grote), 1 c? , 1 $ ; Britain, 

 Leech Coll. ; France ; Denmark, Leech Coll. ; Gkrmawy, Zeller, 

 Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Leech Coll. ; Switzer- 

 land ; Spain: Sicily; Balkan States; llussi a, Livonia, Zeller 



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