TRACHEA. 209 



Ah. 2. ohlonga. Similar, but fore wing with tlie orbicular and 

 reniform filled in with whitish. 



Ab. 3. variegnta. Thorax variegated with white ; fore wing 

 with whitish suffusion beyond the renitorrn and at apex, the black 

 markings stronger, the lines defiued by whitish, the stigmata with 

 whitish annuli. — Armenia, W. Turkestan. 



Hab. Britain, Stephens Coll. type, Leech Coll. ; France ; 

 GBRMAKy, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland ; S. Sweden ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Riga, Zeller 

 Coll., St. Petersburg, Zeller Coll., Sarepta, Zeller Coll. ; Asia Minor, 

 Pontus ; W. Tukkestan, Turcomania, Ferghana, Saisan, Issyk Kul, 

 Ala Tau ; W. Siberia, Altai; Armenia; E. Turkestan, Hi; 

 E. Siberia, Amurlaad. Exp. 46-54 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 133 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 346, pi. 175. f. 1. 



Pale pinkish ochreous ; warts pale reddish brown ; head and 

 thoracic plate red-brown. Food-plants : Poa maritlma, P. distans, 

 and P. horreri. 4-6. 



2984. Trachea, geminimacula. (Plate CXIII. fig. 18.) 



Hadena geJninimacida, Dyar, Proc. Eut. Soc. Wash. vi. p. 103 (1904). 



S. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown mixed with grey ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; frons with slight lateral black bars ; tegulae 

 with black medial line; tarsi blackish ringed with white. Fore 

 wing brown irrorated with grey and black; subbasal line indistinct, 

 double, waved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black defiued 

 by greyish on inner side, double at costa, oblique, waved, angled 

 outwards above inner margin ; claviform moderate, slightly defined 

 by black scales ; orbicular and reniform faintly defined by black 

 scales, the former oblique elliptical, the latter with two prominent 

 white points at lower extremity ; a very indistinct diflPused sinuous 

 medial line ; postmedial line veiy indistinct, faintly defined by 

 greyish on outer side, double at costa, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, with double series of black points with white 

 points between them beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 3, 

 then bent inwards to lower angle of cell and oblique to inner 

 margin, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line 

 formed of slight dentate whitish marks with series of faint dentate 

 blackish marks on its inner side, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 

 3, and slightly inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal 

 series of slight dark lunules; cilia with a fine whitish line at base. 

 Hind wing whitish, the veins and terminal half sufJused with 

 brown ; cilia whitish, tinged with ochreous at base and with dark 

 medial line ; the underside whitish, the costal and terminal areas 

 irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial 

 line, and indistinct diff'used subterminal band. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado {Gockerell), 1 J, Iview Mexico, Exp. 

 46 millim. - 



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