150 NOCTTJIDilS. 



green. Eore wing olive-green irrorated with black, the veins 

 streaked with grey ; subbasal line double, black, waved, from costa 

 to vein 1 ; antemedial line defined by grey on inner side, oblique, 

 minutely waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform absent ; 

 an oblique triangular white spot below origin of vein 2 ; orbicular 

 and reiiiform with brown and black centres and olive-green annuli, 

 the former elliptical with greyish bar beyond it in cell, the latter 

 large, angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct waved 

 medial line oblique from costa to median nervure, then inwardly 

 oblique ; postmedial line defined by grey on outer side, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, some 

 whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line green defined 

 on inner side by brown, and with slight dentate black marks below 

 veins 4, 3, angled outwards at veins 7, 6 and inwards in discal fold, 

 excurved at middle and strongly incurved in submedian interspace ; 

 a terminal series of small black spots ; cilia grey and black inter- 

 sected with green. Hind wing with the basal area whitish, strongly 

 tinged with brown, the terminal area fuscous brown ; an indistinct 

 curved postmedial line ; the termen greyish towards tornus ; cilia 

 brownish white with a dark line through them ; the underside 

 whitish irrorated with brown, an indistinct antemedial line, dis- 

 coidal spot, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



Hah. E. SiBEKiA, Ussuri ; C. China, lehang {Mrs. Pratt), 1 S ; 

 W. China, Chang Yang {Pratt), 2 5 , Omei-shan, 2 $ , Wa-ssu-kou, 

 2 c? ; Kashmir, Scinde Valley {Leech), 2 S ; Punjab, Thundiani 

 ( Yerhury), 1 c? , Simla 1 <S , Dharmsala {Hoclcing), 5 J , 1 ? . 

 Exi>. 44-54 millim. 



2900. Trachea atriplicis. 



Noctua atriplicis, Linn. Svst. Nat. ed. x. p. 517 (1758) ; Esp. Scbmett. iv. 



pi. 168. ff. 1-3; Hlibn.* Enr. Schmett., Noct. f. 83 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. ^i. 



p. 432, pi. 100. f. 1 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 431 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 22 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 184. 

 Hade7ia gnoma, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) i. p. 195 (1878) ; id. 111. Het. B. M. 



ii. p. 32, pi. 31. f. 7. 

 Trachea similis, Stand. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 45G, pi. 9. f. 1 (1892). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown mixed with grey ; vertex of 

 head, tegulee, and patagia with patches of golden green ; tarsi with 

 pale rings. Fore wing golden green irrorated with black, the costa, 

 inner margin, and veins streaked with violaceous grey ; subbasal 

 line waved, from costa to vein 1 towards which it is double filled in 

 with white ; a blackish mark above inner margin before the ante- 

 inedinl line which is defined by violaceous grey, oblique, waved, 

 angled outwards below costa and bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 claviform slightly defined by black at extremity, with an oblique 

 white patch beyond it above and below vein 2, bidentate at ex- 

 tremity ; orbicular and reniform green defined by blackish, the 

 former with some fuscous in centre, elliptical, the latter large, 

 irregular, with some fuscous in lower part and slight white line on 



