180 NOCTTJID.^. 



Nocfua submissa, Treit. Schmett. E.ir. v. 1. p. 346 (1825). 

 Mctua anceps, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 109, pi. 107. f. 5 (1827). 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with grey ; frons with black 

 lateral bars ; tegulse with black medial line; patagia with reddish 

 upper edge ; pectus greyer ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen 

 brown, the base paler, the dorsal crests dark at tips, the ventral 

 surface tinged with red. Fore wing grey irrorated and partly 

 suffused with reddish brown ; subbasal line double filled in with 

 grey, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; a slight black streak 

 below base of cell and another above inner margin before the ante- 

 medial line, which is double filled in with grey, waved, oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold, slightly angled inwards on vein 1 and bent 

 inwards to inner margin ; claviform moderate, defined hj black ; 

 orbicular and reniform with slight grey annuli defined by black, the 

 former oblique elliptical, the latter with grey centre defined by 

 brown ; a medial line oblique from costa to vein 2, then dentate, 

 slightly angled outwards below costa ; postmedial line double 

 filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved and produced to black and white points on the veins, 

 incurved below vein 5, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line whitish, slightly defined on inner side by brown 

 and with minute dentate brown marks before it at middle, ex- 

 curved below vein 7 and dentate to near termen at veins 4, 3 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia reddish brown with 

 dark lines at middle and tips. Hind wing pale tinged with 

 yellowish brown, the veins and terminal area darker ; a faint 

 discoidal lunule and postmedial line ; cilia yellowish white with 

 dark line near base except towards tornus ; the underside yellowish 

 white, the costal area tinged with reddish and irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal lunule, sinuous postmedial line with minute dark streaks 

 on the veins, and diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. submissa. Fore wing witli the inner and postmedial areas 

 rather paler, the streaks on basal area and dentate marks before 

 subterminal line stronger, a dark streak from below claviform to 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 2. remissa. Pore wing with the inner and postmedial areas 

 whitish, the streaks and dentate marks strong, the orbicular and 

 reniform whitish. 



Hub. Britain, Scotland, Leech Coll., England, Leech Coll. ; 

 France ; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Austria : Hungary ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; N. Li'Aly ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; 

 Sweden ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai, Leech Coll. ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. 

 Exp. 40-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Bi-it. Lep. p. 130 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 386, pi. 182. 



Grey-brown with darker striation ; dorsal line yellowish white, 

 dark-edged ; subdorsal line brownish ochreous ; spiracular line 

 broad, pale gre3dsh ochreous ; head brownish grey, with darker 

 freckles ; thoracic plate black with -whitish lines. Food-plants, 

 Grasses. 9-4. 



