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excurved to veiu 2, theu erect, some pale points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, gi-eyish defined on inner side by fuscous 

 suffusion, slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line ; cilia with a fine ochreous line at base. Hind 

 wing greyish brown with a faint reddish tinge ; a faint postmedial 

 line from vein 4 to inner margin near toruus, slightly defined by 

 greyish on outer side ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia with a 

 slight ochreous line at base ; the underside with slight dark irrora- 

 tion and traces of postmedial line between veins 7 and 3. 



Hab. Spain, Granada ; Ckntr. Italy ; Sicily; M.ob.ocgo (Meade- 

 Waldo), 1 J , 1 $ . Exj)., 6 36, 2 40 millim. 



Genus STYGIOSTOLA, nov. 



Type, S. umbratica. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching vertex of 

 head and broadly fringed with hair, the 3rd moderate, porrect ; f'rons smooth ; 

 eyes lar.e, round ; anteniiiE of male bipectinate with long branches to apex, of 

 female with tufts of scales on the joints; thorax clothed with long hair and 

 hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; tibia moder- 

 ately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with rougii hair at base but without 

 crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, not 

 crenulate ; 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 

 the termen excised at discal fold ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with 

 the cell near base only. 



2780. Stygiostola umbratica. 



Noctua umhratica, Goeze, Beitr. iii. 3. p. 67 (1781) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 199. 

 mctiM tenehrosa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. if. 158, 503 (1802) ; Frr. 



Neue Schmett. i. pi. 40 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 11, pi. 72. 

 Eusina ferruginea, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 112, nee Esp. 



Head and thorax dark reddish brown mixed with greyish ; tarsi 

 ringed with white ; abdomen grey-brown, paler at base. Eorewing 

 fuscous brown irrorated with greyish, the inner area to postmedial 



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Fig. 9. — Stygiostola umhratica, ^J. \. 



line and the area before postmedial line to vein 7 with a yellowish 

 tinge ; subbasal line greyish, angled outwards in cell and ending 

 at submedian fold ; aiitcmedial line whitish at costa, then 

 indistinct, bent inwards in cell, then oblique, waved ; orbicular 



