208 



KO0TUIDJ5. 



Hah. Britaiij, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

 Denmark, Leech Coll., Harboor (Engelhart) ; GERMANr, Zeller, Frey, 

 and Leech Colls.; Austria; Hungary; Switzerland; Spain, 

 Aragon ; Ltaly ; Rumelia ; Turkey, Leech Coll. ; S. Sweden ; 

 EussiA, Urals, Sarepta i Chrisioph) ; Armenia; Asia Minor, 

 Taurus ; Persia ; E. Siberia, Exp. 38-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 133 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 349, pi. 175. f. 2. 



Pale brown ; dorsal and subbasal lines obscurely darker ; lateral 

 series of oblique blackish marks ; head and thoracic plate blackish 

 brown. Pood-plants, Grasses. 9-3. 



2983, Trachea oblonga. 



Noctua nigricans, View. Schmett. ii. p. 66 (1789), neo Linn. ; Trait. Schmett. 



Eur. V. (2) p. 141 ; Staph. 111. Bnt. Eut., Haiist. iii. p. 193, pi. 24. f. 12. 

 Noctua oblonga, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 188 (1809). 

 NochM kimolina, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 192 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. ii. p. 130. 

 Noctua abjecta, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 539 (1818); Err. Neue 



Baitr, iv. p. 35, pi. 311. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 173. 

 Luperina Jribolus, Boisd. leones, pi. 84. f. 4 (1832). 

 Hadena variegata, Staud. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 101 (1871). 



{abjecta). Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with some 

 grey ; pectus with some yellowish hair ; abdomen pale grey-brown, 

 the dorsal crests fuscous and grey, the ventral surfact; yellowish 

 mixed with brown. Pore wing glossy fuscous brown slightly 

 irrorated with greyish; subbasal line represented by faint double 

 dark striae from eosta ; traces of an oblique dark streak above inner 

 margin before the antemedial line, which is indistinctly double filled 

 in with greyish, waved, oblique to submcdian fold, then angled 

 inwards on vein 1 and bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform 

 minute with very indistinct dark outline ; orbicular and reniform 

 indistinctly defined by brown, the former round, the latter with 

 whitish points on outer edge and lower extremity ; an indistinct 

 diffused medial line, oblique from costa to median nervure ; post- 

 medial line very indistinct, defined by greyish on outer side, double 

 at costa, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate and 

 produced to blackish and white points on the veins, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved, some M'hite points beyond it on costa ; sub - 

 terminal line very indistinct, whitish, defined on inner side by faint 

 dentate brown marks except towards costa and with slight brown 

 marks beyond it at middle, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; a terminal series of blackish points ; cilia greyish with 

 waved dark line near base. Hind wing whitish tinged with brown, 

 the terminal area suff'used with fuscous brown; cilia yellowish at 

 base, with dark medial line and white tips ; the underside white, the 

 costal and terminal areas suffused with brown, a slight discoidal 

 point and sinuous postraedial line, 



Ab, 1. liimdina. Pore wing with black streak below base of 

 cell and diffused black fascia between claviform and postmedial 

 line. 



