OLIGIA. 395 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the ante- and postmcdial areas largeh* 

 suffused with white. 



Ab, 3. expolita. Fore wing almost uniform greyish brown. — 

 Britain, Armenia. 



Ab, 4. tincta. Fore wing with the basal area grey, the medial 

 area deep pink, the terminal area pale glossy pink. — Ireland. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll, ; France, Pyrenees ; Germany, 

 Silesia, Bavaria; Atjstkia, Frey & Leech Colls., Galicia, Styria, 

 Zeller Coll. ; Switzerland, Frey Coll. : Sweden : Finland; IIussia, 

 Livonia, Urals ; Armenia ; W. Siberia, Altai ; E. Siberia, 

 Dahuria, Ussuri, Exp. 18-22 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 136; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 24, pi. 188. f. 1. 



Ochreous tinged with reddish, dorsallj tinged with purplish on 

 somites 2-7 ; head reddish-brown ; thoracic plate yellow-brown. 

 Food-plant : hearts of Carex glauca. 8-5. 



3223. Oligia havorthi. 



Apamea haworthii. Curt. Brit. Ent. v. p. 260 (1829) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., 

 Haust. iii. p. 16, pi. 23. f. 3 ; Graslin, Ami. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1848, p. 58, 

 pi. 1. ff. 3-6; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Scbniett., Noct. ff. 467-8 ; Staud. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 169. 



Apamea tripimcta, Curt. Brit. Ent. f. p. 260 (1829). 



Celana hibermca, Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. iii. p. 17 (1829). 



Celana lancea, Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. iii. p. 18 (1829). 



Noctua erupta, Germar, Faun. Ins. Eur. xxii.pl. 15(^1842); Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. pi. 472. ff. 1,2. 



Gortyna morio, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 550 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 388. 

 f. 1. 



Head and thorax deep purplish red-brown ; frons with slight dark 

 lateral bars ; tegulse with slight dark medial line ; tarsi fuscous 

 ringed with whitish ; abdomen brown with the anal tuft rutous. 

 Fore wing deep purplish red-brown to black-brown, irrorated and 

 the veins streaked with white, especially the median nervure and 

 bases of veins 4, 3 on medial area ; subbasal line dovible filled in 

 with whitish, waved, from costa to submcdian fold ; antemedial line 

 doable tilled in with whitish, angled outwards below costa, then 

 oblique, waved ; clavit'orm small, defined by black ; orbicular and 

 reniform small Avith white annuli or often filled in with white, 

 defined by black, the former round, rarely wedge-shaped, the latter 

 angled inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct waved medial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line double filled 

 in with white, slightly bent outwards below costa, somewhat angled 

 inwards below vein 7, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; the post- 

 medial area irrorated or suffused with white and with some white 

 points on costa; subterminal line white defined on inner side by a 

 blackish patch at costa and by small dentate dark marks from below 

 vein 6 to inner margin, slightly angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 ; 

 a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia red-brown and 

 greyish with a brown line through them. Hind wing reddish 

 brown with the terminal area darker ; cilia yellowish white with a 

 brown line near base ; the underside paler, the costal and terminal 



