442 



NOCTTJID^ 



b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- 

 brown devastairix. 



b^. Fore wing with the subterminal lino indistinct. 



«■*. Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish 



grey sfandfussi. 



6'. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- 

 white "... zollkofcri. 



3281. Sidemia speciosa. 



Noctiia speciosa, Brem. LejD. Ost-Sib. p. 50, pi. 4. f. 10 (1864) ; Staud. 



Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. 

 Agrotis hremeri, Ersch. Trudy Euss. Entom. Obs. ir. pp. 1.52, 194 (1867). 

 Sidemia s,nelleni, Staud. Eoin. Alem. vi. p. 459, pi. 7. f. 8 (1892). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; sides of palpi and 

 frons reddish brown ; patagia edged v\ith brown on outer side ; 

 metathoracic crest with some black-tipped scales ; pectus and legs 

 reddish brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey tinged 

 with brown, the ventral surface and anal tuft darker brown. 

 Pore wing grey suffused with brown except at base and on costal 

 area to postmedial line ; subbasal line indistinct, double filled in 

 with grey, obliquely curved, from costa to vein 1 ; a dark brown 

 patch below the cell before the antemedial line, which is double 

 filled in with white, angled outwards below costa, then retracted 



and obsolescent to median nervure, then strong, obliquely excurved 

 and slightly incurved at vein 1, defined by grey on outer side 

 towards inner margin ; claviform indistinctly defined by blackish at 

 extremity ; orbicular and reniform pale brown with whitish annuli 

 defined by black, open above and below and rather quadrate ; 

 postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below 

 costa, strongly excurved below vein 7, oblique and slightly incurved 

 below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line whitish with slight brown marks before it below costa and at 

 middle, excurved below vein 7, excurved at middle and somewhat 

 dentate at veins 4,3; the termen somewhat greyer with a series of 

 minute dark lunules ; cilia dark brown. Hind wing grey suffused 

 with brown, the basal and inner areas rather paler 5 traces of a 



