390 KOCTUID^. 



blackish scales ; tegulas with black medial line; tarsi banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen rufous, paler below. Pore wing rufous suffused 

 with grey on antemedial inner area and just beyond middle, some 

 fuscous irroration especially on the veins, the costal and terminal 

 areas suffused with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by slight 

 dark striae from costa and cell ; antemedial line represented by a 

 fuscous striga from costa and a strongly excurved black line from 

 cell to inner margin ; claviform minute, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform grey, the former defined by black, oblique elliptical, 

 the latter defined by black on inner side only ; postmedial line 

 almost obsolete on costal half, bent outwards below costa, then with 

 series of black points beyond it on the veins, excurved to vein 4, 

 then bent inwards to origin of vein 2 and forming a black line de- 

 fined by grey on outer side from cell to inner margin, approximated 

 to the antemedial line, some grey points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, pale, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of black striae ; cilia with a black line near base. 

 Hind wing greyish tinged with rufous and suffused with brown, 

 especially on terminal area; cilia with a brown line near base and 

 white tips ; the undoiside grey irrorated with brown, the costal 

 area tinged with rufous, the terminal area suffused with brown, 

 traces of a discoidal point and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. suhaixta. Larger; fore wing not tinged with rufous, — 

 Sicily, Palestine, Ala Tau. 



Ab. 2. onychina. Much paler ; fore wing grey-white, the 

 markings obsolescent. — Heligoland and islands in North Sea. 



Hab. Bkitain, Forres (/SflZw<_9e), England, Leech Coll.; Ireland, 

 Derry {Salvage); Fkaxck ; Islands in North Sea, Frey Coll.; 

 Germany, Zeller, Frey & Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland, Frey Coll. ; Dalmatia ; Sweden ; S. Eussia ; 

 Armenia; Syria, Leech Coll. ; W. Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, 

 Issyk Kul, Ala Tau. Eccp. 26-32 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 136 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 8, ]i\. 185. f. 2. 



Ochreous sometimes tinged with pink, area between dorsal and 

 subdorsal lines deep reddish or fuscous ; head and thoracic plat© 

 yellow-brown. Food-plants : stems of Grasses. 9-6. 



3217. Oligia semicana. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 3.) 



Miana semicana, Wlk. xxxii. 675 (1 865) ; Smith, Cat. Noet. N. Ain. p. 144. 

 Erastria laiireptana, Wlk. xxxiii. 791 (1805). 



Hadena haus/a, Qroie, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 217 (1882); Smitb, Cat. Noct. 

 N. Am. p. J 40. 



cJ . Head and thorax pale reddish brown mixed with whitish : 

 tegulse with slight dark line near tips ; abdomen grey slightly 

 tinged with fuscous, the dorsal crests blackish, the anal tuft och- 

 reous. Fore wing deep brown to the reniform, the postmedial area 

 pale grey, the terminal area tinged with rufous ; subbasal line 

 represented by a slight striga from costa ; antemedial line in- 

 distinctly double and somewhat waved and oblique, a diffused black 



