yo ITOCTUID,T]. 



and at middle, the area beyond it suffused with fuscous except at 

 apex and middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia 

 fuscous with an ochreous line at base. Hind wing ochreons suffused 

 with fuscous brown especially on t^erminal area ; a slight pale 

 postmedial line ; an ochreous mark on extremity of vein 2 ; cilia 

 ochreous with a fuscous line through them; the underside ochreous, 

 the costal area tinged with purplish red, a black streak in middle 

 of cell, discoidal spot, curved postmedial line, and traces of diffused 

 subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. discrepans. Much darker; fore wing with blackish 

 markings. — Ussuri. 



Hab. I3KITAIN, Leech Coll. ; Fkance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austma ; HuNGAiir ; Switzeelanb ; 

 ?]Sr. Italy; Dalmatia, Leech Coll.; Corfu; ? S.Sweden; Kussia, 

 Urals ; W. Siberia, Altai, Leech Coll. ; E. Siberia, Amurland, 

 Ussuri. Exy. 44-48 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 132 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 374, pi. 180. f. 2. 



Grey-brown or dark purplish brown with darker freckles ; dorsal 

 line pale ochreous or whitish ; subdorsal line indistinct, pale ; 

 spiracular line broad, pale greyii?h ochreous : head dark brown ; 

 thoracic plate blackish with whitish lines. Pood-plants : Grasses. 

 10-4. 



2838. Parastichtis sodalis. 



Xt/lophasia sodalis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 83 (1878); id. 111. Het. 



B. M. ii. p. 24, pi. 29. f. 2 ; Hvnpsii. Moths Ind. ii. p. 210. 

 Apamea ohliquioi-bis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 109 (1882). 



Head and thorax fuscous mixed with greyish or red-brown ; 

 frons with lateral black bars ; tegulae with black medial line ; tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen greyish suffused with fuscous, the 

 dorsal crests and anal tuft tinged with rufous. Fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with rufous and fuscous, the costal area and the cell and 

 area just below it on medial area rather darker, the veins with dark 

 streaks; subbasal line represented by two oblique strife from costa; 

 a slight streak in base of cell, sinuous streak in submedian fold 

 and oblique streak above inner margin near base ; antemedial line 

 double at costa and angled outwards below costa, then oblique, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 and strongly outwards above inner 

 margin ; claviform brown defined by black, a dark streak from its 

 upper edge to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform defined by 

 brown, the former very oblique elliptical, the latter with four 

 whitish points on edges, its outer side undefined and its lower part 

 filled in with fuscous ; traces of a medial line oblique from costa to 

 lower angle of cell, then somewhat dentate; postmedial line double 

 towards costa, bent outwards below costa, then indistinct, dentate 

 and produced to slight streaks on the veins, incurved below vein 4, 

 a brown patch beyond it on costa with some pale points on it ; 

 subterminal line pale rufous defined on inner side by slight dentate 

 blackish marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, 



