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white mark ; a white mark in cell before the antemedial line, which 

 is black strongly defined by white on inner side, waved, oblique 

 from costa to submedian fold, then inwardly oblique ; claviform a 

 small white mark beyond the angle of antemedial line defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform white slightly defined by black and 

 with yellow-brown centres, the former oblique elliptical, the latter 

 large ; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, slightly bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to discal fold where it is slightly 

 angled inwards, somewhat excurved and waved between veins 

 5 and 3, then angled inwards in submedian fold and outwardly 



Fig. 66. — Eremobia amcejia, c7. \. 



oblique to inner margin, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line white, dentate outwards at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, then 

 incurved and bent outwards to near tornus ; a fine waved dark 

 terminal line ; cilia chequered yellow-brown and white with slight 

 dark line through them. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with 

 brown ; a whitish mark on termen below vein 2 ; cilia white with 

 a slight brown line through them ; the underside white irrorated 

 with yellow-brown, a small discoidal spot and diffused postmedial 

 line bent inwards at vein 2, the area beyond it tinged with yellow- 

 brown. 



Hah. W. TuEKESTAisr, Ferghana, Issyk Kul, 1 c?; E. Turkestast, 

 Kuldja, 4 J . Exp. 36-40 millim. 



Sect. II. (Eremobia). Antennpe of male bipectinate, with verj short branches 

 ending in fasciculate cilia. 



A. Fore wing ochreous white suffused with rufous ochroleuca. 



B. Fore wing gi'ey suffused with fuscous thula. 



3242. Eremobia ochroleuca. 



Noctua ochroleuca, Schiff. Wien. Yerz. p. 87 (1776) ; Esp. Schraett. iv. 

 p. 373, pi. 126. ff. 1-4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noet. f. 92 {flamma); 

 Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 311, pi. 92. f. 3 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. 

 p. 95; Frr. Neue Beitr. f. 657; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 172. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous white tinged with rufous ; 

 palpi rufous at sides ; tarsi rufous ringed with white ; abdomen 

 with the dorsal crests dark. Fore wing ochreous white suffused with 

 rufous, the inner part of medial area and postmedial area darker ; 

 subbasal line represented by a dark striga from costa defined by 

 whitish on outer side ; antemedial line dark brown defined by 



