422 NOCTUID^. 



defined by brown on inner side, somewhat angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of indistinct dark 

 spots ; cilia chequered brown and white. Hind wing greyish 

 thickly irrorated with brown ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia 

 white ; the underside white irrorated with brown, a dark discoidal 

 spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Eah. U.S.A., Colorado, Gibson Mts. {Bruce), 1 S. Exp. 40 

 millim. 



3260. Eremobia zeta. 



Polia zeta, Treit. Schmett. Eur. t. 2, p. 35 (1825) ; Heri-.-Schaff. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. f. 416 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 172. 

 Nociua pernix, Geyer, Samnil. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 801 (1827); Frr. 



Neue Beitr. pi. 232. ff. 2, 3; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 189, 



pi. 18. f. 3. 

 Folia dandestina, Boisd. Tnd. Meth. p. 75 (1829). 

 Mamestra rivalis, Wlk. ix. 224 (1856). 

 Hadena curoi, Calb. Iris, i. p. 241, pi. 12. ff. 1, 2 (1888). 

 Hadena farinulenta, Christ. Iris, vi. p. 92 (1893); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 172'. 

 Hadena zetina, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 342 (1899). 



Head and thorax clothed with greenish-grey and fuscous hair 

 and scales ; pectus and legs ochreous mixed with fuscous ; tarsi 

 fuscous ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown mixed with 

 grey, the base of ventral surface and anal tuft tinged with fulvous. 

 Pore wing fuscous overlaid with white and greenish scales ; sub- 

 basal line waved, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 defined by whitish on inner side, waved, excurved in submedian 

 interspace and above inner margin and angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, defined by blackish or obsolete ; orbicular defined 

 by blackish, oblique elliptical, or almost obsolete ; reniform with 

 incomplete whitish annulus or almost obsolete; medial line slight, 

 waved, oblique from costa to median nervure or obsolete ; post- 

 medial line blackish defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate and produced to black and white points 

 on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, waved, 

 defined on inner side by very slight dentate dark marks, angled 

 outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of 

 minute black luuules ; cilia fuscous at base, yellowish white at 

 tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, the basal area 

 rather paler ; a dark terminal line; cilia yellowish white with 

 dark line through them ; the underside white irrorated with 

 fuscous, a black streak in base of cell, discoidal spot and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. zetina. Smaller; fore wing with the markings distinct. — 

 Thian-Schan Mts. 



Ab. 2. pernix. Much darker. 



Ab. 3. curoi. Much paler, whitish. — N. Italy, Gran Sasso. 



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

 Switzerland, Zermatt {A. H. Jones), Engadine, Frey Coll., Stelvio, 



