382 NOCTUID^. 



beyond it ; some white on inner margin before the antemedial line, 

 which is black deiined by white on inner side, waved, angied inwards 

 in cell and on vein 1 ; claviform defined by diffused black ; orbicular 

 and reniform white tinged with brown and defined by black at sides, 

 the former oblique elliptical ; postmedial line black defined by white 

 on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate 

 and produced to short black streaks on the veins, oxcurved to vein 

 4, then strongly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subtermiual line white slightly defined by brown on inner side, 

 excurved beloAv vein 7 and at middle, then incurved ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia whitish with series of blackish 

 spots at tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown ; cilia white 

 with slight brown line near tips on apical half; the underside white 

 tinged with brown, a slight discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, 

 and traces of diffused subterminal line. 



Ab. 1. latruncula. Paler, generally rufous ; fore wing with the 

 white on terminal area much reduced. 



Ab. 2. cethiojjs. Almost uniform dark brown ; fore wing without 

 any white, 



Eah. Bkitain, Leech Coll ; Feance, Sand and Leech Colls. ; 

 GEiiMAivy, Zoller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Austeia ; Hungaky ; 

 SwiTZEELAND, Zollcr and Frey Colls. ; Spain, Bilbao; Italy, Cour- 

 mayeur {JIa'inpson) ; Sicily ; Dalmatia ; Hussia, Livonia, Zeller 

 Coll. ; Aemenia ; Asia Minoe, Pontus, Bithynia, Lydia ; Kurdistan ; 

 N.W. Persia ; W. Turkestan, Issyk Kul ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; hab. 

 ign, type invisa, Exp. 22-28 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 137 ; Barrett, Lop. Brit. v. p. 12, pi. 186. f. 1. 



Dull reddish or fuscous ; dorsal, subdorsal, and lateral lines pale 

 ochreous ; subspiracular line pale ochreous, sometimes edged with 

 blackish above ; head and thoracic plate pale broAvn. Food-plants, 

 leaves and stems of Grasses and Curex. 9-5. 



3205. Oligia instructa. (Plate CXVII. fig. 28.) 



Hadena instructa, Wlk. xxxiii. 733 (1865). 

 Hadena rubrescens, Wlk. xxxiii. 733 (1865). 



(5' . Head and thorax rufous mixed with dark brown ; sides of 

 palpi and frons fuscous ; tegulae with some black at base and strong 

 black medial line ; tarsi black ringed with whitish ; abdomen ochreous 

 dorsally suffused with fuscous brown. Fore wing pale rufous 

 slightly irrorated with black especially on the veins ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight double stria? from costa and cell, with some 

 fuscous suffusion on outer side below the cell ; a slight black streak 

 in base of submedian fold; antemedial line indistinctly double, 

 slightly angled outwards belov\- costa, oblique to submedian fold and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform 

 small with ochreous aunuli defined by black, the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter constricted at middle ; an indistinct diffused 

 medial line, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved 

 and approximated to the postmedial line, which is defined by ochreous 



