39-4: NOCTUID^. 



Ab. 2. rufunmla. Fore wing tiearlj' uniform pale rufous. 



Ab. 3. vinchaicula. Fore wing rufous with the terminal area 

 dark brown, a narrow black medial band. 



Ab. 4. insulicola. Fore wing greyish with white and black striae. 

 — Heligoland, Norderney, Denmark. 



Ab. 5. pallicUor. Paler ; fore wing with the basal half rufous, 

 the terminal half whitish ; hind wing Avhite, the termen tinged with 

 ochreous. — W. & E. Turkestan, Tibet. 



Hah. Beitain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand Coll. ; Heligoland, 

 Leech Coll. ; Denmark, Frey Coll. ; Germa.ny, Zeller, Frey and 

 Leech Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary : Switzbkland ; Spain, 

 Andalusia ; N. Lialt ; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; W. Turkestan, 1 S . Ferghana, Syr 

 Daria, 1 d , Issyk Kul, Ala Tau ; E. Turkestan, Hi ; Tibet, Kuku- 

 noor ; E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exj). 22-30 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Lep. Brit. p. 136 ; Bai-rett, Brit. Lep. v. p. 20, pi. 187. 



Ochreous yellow tinged with pinkish and with three dull reddish 

 bands on each somite ; dorsal and subbasal lines paler ; head dark 

 reddish brown, thoracic plate pale reddish brown. Food-plants : 

 stems of Grasses. 9-6. 



3222. Oligia capthmcula. 



A'pamea cwptmncula, Treit. Sclimett. Eur. v. 2. p. 96 (1825); Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. p. 282, pi. 117. f. 7 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 173-4 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 165. 

 Miana expolita, Sttn. Entom. Ann. 1855, p. 41. 

 Noctua xonica, Frr. Neue Beitr. vii. pL 640. f. 1 (1858). 

 Miana tincta, Kane, Entom. 18'J5, p. 155. 



Head and thorax dark brown mixed with greyish ; tarsi dark 

 brown with pale rings ; abdomen grey-brown with slight grey 

 segmental lines, the dorsal crests black. Fore wing dark brown 

 mixed -with grey, the medial area darker, the postmedial area grey 

 shading to rufous at costa and before subterminal line ; subbasal 

 line represented by a slight striga from costa ; antemedial line 

 defined by whitish on inner side, waved ; claviform absent ; 

 orbicular and reniform greyish with white annuli, the former 

 minute, elongate elliptical, the latter small, narrow ; traces of a 

 blackish medial shade ; postmedial line defined by white on outer 

 side and with whitish patch beyond it on inner area, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, defined on inner side by rufous, excurved below vein 7 and at 

 middle ; terminal area darker ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia 

 greyish with a dark line near base. Hind wing dark brown tinged 

 with greyish ; cilia grey with a fuscous line near base; the under- 

 side grey irroraied and suftused with fuscous, a slight dark discoidal 

 spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the postmedial area rufous without white 

 beyond the postmedial line. 



