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Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; Scandinavia ; Russia, St. Petersburg, Frey 

 Coll. ; Armenia ; Persia ; W. Ttjhkestan, Fergana, Sarawschan, 

 Issyk KuL Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai, 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland. Jay. 40-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 132; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 352, pi. 17fi. f. 1. 



Pale pinkish ochreons ; warts rather small, reddish brown ; head 

 and thoracic plate reddish brown. Food-plants, Grrasses. 9-6. 



2982. Trachea anceps. 



FocUia ancejys, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 81 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 484. 

 Noctua sordida, Borkh. Nat. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 578 (1792) ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 172. 

 Noctica contigua, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 192 (1809), nee Vill. 

 Apamea infesta, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 76 (1816), non descr. ; Treit. 



Schmett. Eur v. (2) p. 112 (1825). 

 Noctua alietia, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 29, pi. 102, ff. 2, 6; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. iii. p. 4 (nee Hiibn.). 

 Luperina renardii, Boisd. Ind. Meth. add. p. 6 (1829). 

 Hadeiia engelhartU, Duurloo, Ent. Medd. ii. p. 86 (1889). 



Head and thorax reddish brown, mixed with ochreous on head 

 and tegulfe and with some grey on thorax ; sides of palpi and frons 

 blackish ; tegiilse with dark tips ; patagia with some black scales 

 near upper edge ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen grey- 

 brown, the dorsal crests tipped with fuscous and grey. Fore wing 

 reddish brown mixed with whitish and with slight dark irroration ; 

 subbasal line defined by whitish on outer side, angled outwards 

 below costa and ending at submedian fold ; a slight oblique dark 

 streak above inner margin near base ; antemedial Hue double filled 

 in with whitish, oblique and slightly sinuous from costa to sub- 

 median fold, then angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform short and 

 broad, faintly defined by brown above ; orbicular and reniform 

 slightly defined by brown, the former large, very obliquely elliptical, 

 the latter angled inwards on median nervure and with white marks 

 on outer and lower edges ; a slight brown medial line, oblique from 

 costa to median nervure, then inwardly oblique and waved : post- 

 medial line defined by whitish on outer side, double at costa, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, exeurved to vein 4, then 

 obliquely incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line pale, defined on inner side by red-brown forming some- 

 what dentate marks at discal and submedian folds, exeurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous intersected with ochreous. Hind wing whitish tinged 

 with reddish brown, the veins and terminal area suffused with 

 fuscous brown ; cilia white with slight brownish line through them 

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

 with rufous, a brown discoidal lunule, traces of a postmedial line 

 from costa to vein 6, a slight maculate subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. renardi. Pale. 



Ab. 2. engelharti. Much paler ; fore wing with the markings 

 indistinct. 



