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black point beyond it above inner margin ; orbicular and reniform 

 large, with pale annuli defined by black, both somewhat oblique 

 elliptical ; medial line represented by a black striga from costa and 

 rather diffused oblique line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line black, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards at discal fold, 

 strongly incurved below vein 4, and oblique below submedian fold, 

 some white points beyond it on costa and some blood-red suffusion 

 in submedian interspace ; subterrainal line indistinct, whitish, 

 defined on inner side by a dark shade at costa, excurved below vein 

 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds; 

 a terminal series of dark striae ; cilia brown with fine pale lines at 

 base and middle. Hind wing brown somewhat paler at base ; cilia 

 whitish with dark line through them ; the underside white tinged 

 and irrorated with red-brown, a dark discoidal spot, traces of a 

 sinuous postmedial line and diffused subterminal sbade. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri ; Japan, Tokio {Maries), 1 $ , 

 Yokohama (Jonas, Pn/er), 2 (5,3 $ type, Fushiki (i^eec/i), 1 c5",Gifu 

 {Pryer), 1 $ ; Coeea, Gensan {Leech), 'I S '■, ^- Chin-a ; C. China, 

 Kiukiang {Fryer), 1 $, Ichang {3frs. Pratt), 1 J. Exj). 2i-28 

 millim. 



*3215. Oligia leiiconephra. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 2.) 

 Miana leiiconephra, Piing. ined. 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with some rufous and 

 grey ; tarsi slightly ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous with a 

 greyish tinge. Fore wing blackish tinged with grey and suffused 

 with cupreous red-brown ; subbasal line blackish, sinuous, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line indistinct, double, excurved in 

 submedian interspace, claviform and orbicular absent ; reniform a 

 narrow oblique white lunule defined by black ; a faint diffused 

 blackish medial line ; postmedial line indistinctly double, slightly 

 bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale, defined by blackish suffusion on iniier side, 

 more distinct towards costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a black terminal line ; cilia blackish mixed with grey and with a 

 slight black line through them. Hind wing glossy fuscous tinged 

 with grey ; cilia with a slight pale line at base. 



Hah. E. Siberia, Ussuri, Ivasakewitsch, type t $ in Coll. 

 Piingeler. Exp. 18 millim. 



3216. Oligia literosa. 



Noctua literosa. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 213 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



iii. p. 12, pi. 25. I. 1 ; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 164. 

 Apamea svffuruncula, Ochs. Eur. Schniett. iv. p. 76 (1816); Treit. Eur. 



Schmett. v. 2, p. 97 (1828) ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 142. f. 1. 

 Noctua erratricula, Hiibu. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 537 (1818). 

 Apamea onychina, Herr.-Schaff. JSTeue Schmett. p. 4, ff. 20, 2] (1856). 

 Hadena mbarcta, Staud. Iris, x. p. 283, pi. 9. f. 14 (1897). 



Head and thorax deep rufous mixed with some grey and a few 



