OLIGIA. 381 



with whitish lunule on outer edge ; traces of a sinuous medial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely waved and with double series of 

 black points bej'oud it on the veins strono;ly incurved below vein 4, 

 some pale points beyond it on costa; subterminal line pale defined 

 on inner side by rufous, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunulas. Hind wing ochreous white 

 suffused with brown ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia ochreous 

 white with a dark line through them ; the underside whitish irro- 

 rated with brown, a slight discoidal point and sinuous postmedial 

 line. 



Ab. 1. vulgivacja. Head and thorax redder with hardly any 

 black ; fore wing red mixed with purple-grey and wifhout tho 

 whitish areas, the terminal area blackish except at apex. 



Hah. Canada, 1 5 fyp<^5 Manitoba, Aweme {Griddle), 1 5 ; 

 U.S.A., Vermont, Kew York {Grote, Scudder), 3 cJ , 1 $ , Wisconsin, 

 Illinois, J^ebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Exii. 30-36 millim. 



3204. Oligia strigilis. 



Noctua strigilis, Clerok, Icones, pi. ix. f. 6 (1759) ; Linn. Faim. Suec. p. blS 



(1761); Esp. Schraett. pi. 146. ff. 1-3; Dup. L6p. Fr. vii. p. 12, pi. 101. 



f. 2;Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 12; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 164. 

 J^octua latrunmda, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 94; Dup. L6p. Fr. vii. p. 9, p). 101. f. 1; Fit. Neue Beitr. 



pi. 142. IF. 1-2, & pi. 273. f. 2 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 13. 

 Noctua prcBduncula, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 95. 

 ■ Noctdia cBrata, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 146. ff. 4-6 (1790). 

 Noctua meretriciola, Borkh. Bur. Schraett. iv. p. 187 (1792). 

 Noctua (Bthiops, Maw. Lep. Brit. p. 215 (1809); Staph. 111. Brit. Ent., 



Haust. iii. p. 13. 

 Miana invisa, Wlk. x. 259 (1856). 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; frons with black 

 lateral bars ; tegulse, thoracic crests, and patagia with some black 



Fig. 63. — Oliffia strigilis, (5 



scales at tips ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen pale brown. 

 Pore wing brown mixed with grey and irrorated with black to 

 postmedial line, the inner medial area black-brown, the terminal 

 area white with brown patches on postmedial costal area and 

 on terraen at middle and above tornus ; subbasal line black, 

 waved, from costa to vein 1, above which there is a black mark 



