206 NOcyaiD.^;. 



area darker, a slight discoidal spofc and curved postmedial line ; a 

 slight dark terminal line ; cilia whitish with a dark line through 

 them ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas tinged 

 with brown and strongl}- irrorated with fuscous, a dark discoidal 

 spot and strong sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. herci/nice. Fore wing almost black, the markings distinct, 

 ■whitish. — S.E, Germany. 



Jlah. Germany, Silesia, Bohemia, Ilartz Mts., Zeller Coll. ; 

 Austria ; Huin-gart ; Switzerland, Zeller and Leech Colls., Valais, 

 Frey Coll., Eagadine, Zeller and Fray Colls.; jSTorway; Finland; 

 Russia, St, Petersburg, Fray Coll. Exp. 46-52 millim. 



2981. Trachea furva. 



Nocfua furva, Schiff. Wien. Vsrz. p. 81 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. f. 407 ; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 27(5. pi. 25. f. 5; Heri-.-Schaff, 

 Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 290; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 172. 



Noctuafrcyeri, Fit. JVeue Beitr. Schmett. ii. p. 107, pi. 159 (1835). 



Mamestra infernalis, Ev. Bull. Soc. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 547. 



Hadena gemmosa, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 427 (1845). 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with black and some 

 white scales ; tegulae with slight dark medial line and whitish tips ; 

 patagia with blackish line near upper edge ; tarsi fuscous ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Fore wing reddish 

 brown mixed with some whitish and irrorated with blackish ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black striae filled in with grey 

 from costa and cell ; some black irroration above inner margin 

 before the antemedial line, which is double filled in with grey, 

 oblique, waved ; claviform small with diffused black outline ; 

 orbicular with slight whitish annulus defined by black, irregularly 

 rounded ; I'eniform with white annuUis defined by black and pale 

 central lunule, its inner edge straight, its upper extremity rather 

 produced ; a rather diffused blackish medial line, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then minutely waved ; postmedial line 

 defined by grey on outer side, indistinctly double on costal half, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and produced to 

 black and white points on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then in- 

 curved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 white, defined on inner side by small dentate black marks, excurved 

 below vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series of small 

 black lunules ; cilia with fine white line at base, black medial line 

 and brownish tips. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area suffused with fuscous brown ; a faint discoidal spot, 

 traces of a sinuous postmedial line and a white subterminal line 

 towards tornus ; cilia white with brown line near base except 

 towards tornus ; the underside white, the costal area irrorated with 

 brown, a brown discoidal lunule, curved postmedial line from costa 

 to vein 2, diffused subterminal band, and fine terminal line. 



fJah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Pyrenees ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Leech Colls. ; Austria; Hungary; Switzerland, Valais, Frey 

 Coll., Zermatt (A. II. Jones), Engadine, Frey Coll.; Italy; 



