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NOCTUIDiE. 



Miana errafricida, Embr. Oat. Lep. S. And. pi. 16. ff. 1-2 (nee Hiibn.). 

 Mimia cana, Stand. Cat. Lep. Eur. p. 102 (1871). 



Head and thorax bright rufous ; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; 

 abdomen brown, the anal tuft and ventral surface rufous. Fore 

 wing bright rufous, the antemedial and postmedial areas slightly 

 paler except towards costa ; subbasal line absent ; antemedial line 

 brown defined by whitish on inner side below the cell, oblique from 

 costa to below cell, then excurved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform pale rufous faintly defined by brown ; orbicular and reni- 

 forra pale rufous faintly defined by brown, the former oblique 

 elliptical; postmedial line brown, defined by whitish on outer side 

 below vein 3, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa : sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by rufous on inner 

 side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved, terminal 

 area somewhat browner except at apex ; cilia brown with slight 

 pale line at base. Hind wing brown ; cilia whitish with slight 

 brown line near base except towards tornus ; the underside grey- 

 brown, the costal area tinged with rufous, a slight discoidal spot, 

 faint curved postmedial line, and traces of diffused subterminal 

 line. 



Ab. 1. Darker brown. — Scotland. 



Ab. 2. caim. Much paler ; fore wing grey-white with medial 

 rufous band. — Scotland, Denmark, N. France. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 137 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 16, pi. 186. f. 2. 



Pinkish ochreous ; dorsal line double, pale greyish ochreous 

 enclosing a darkei- line ; subdorsal and lateral lines pale greyish 

 ochreous ; head and thoracic plate pale brown. Food-plants, 

 leaves and stems of Grasses. 9-5. 



*3200. Oiigia tapeta. (Plate CXYII. fig. 25.) 



Badena tapeia, Smith, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 407 (1900); Dyar, 

 Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 115. 



S • Head and thorax deep red-brown ; tegulEe tipped with yellow ; 

 patagia with some yellow scales near upper edge ; vertex of thorax 

 and metathoracic tuft yellowish ; abdomen whitish tinged with 

 brown, the anal tuft yellowish. Fore wing yellowish almost entirely 

 suffused with bright red-brown ; subbasal line black, single, dentate ; 

 antemedial line single, black with a small spot at costa, erect, 

 waved ; claviform absent ; orbicular a white point ; reniform 

 whitish with a brown line in centre ; the medial area with a dark 

 patch on inner margin ; postmedial line black, interrupted, defined 

 on outer side by yellowish, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal line yellowish, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked 

 with yellowish ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with 

 yellowish points at base. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal 

 area suffused with brown; cilia finsfcd with ochreous: the under- 



