446 NOCTUIDiE. 



with grey, oblique, waved ; claviform defined by black and often 

 with two black streaks from its extremity to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, with slight white annuli defined by 

 black, the former oblique elliptical, often produced at lower extremity 

 and confluent with the latter, the cell before and between them 

 sometimes tinged with black ; traces of a medial line oblique from 

 costa to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 double tilled in with greyish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely waved excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa; subterminal line whitish defined on 

 inner side by slight dentate black marks except towards costa, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and slightly dentate 

 at veins 4. 3 ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia with a 

 fine pale line at base. Hind wing greyish suffused with brown, the 

 veins and terminal area darker ; cilia ochreous white with a brown 

 line through them ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 small discoidal spot, indistinct curved postmedial line with minute 

 dark streaks on the veins, and traces of diffused subterminal band. 



Ab. 1. orenburghensis. Tore wing greyer ; hind wing yellow 

 towards base. — Urals. 



Hab. Britain, Leech Coll. ; Prance, Sand Coll. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Frej', and Leech Colls. : Austria; Hungary; Switzerland; 

 N. Italy ; Eussia, Livonia, Zeller Coll., Sarepta, Leech Coll., Urals ; 

 Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus : Persia ; "W. Siberia, Altai ; 

 E. Siberia, Amurland, Ussuri. Exp. 36-44 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 64; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 301, pi. 22.S. f. 1. 



Brown sometimes tinged with reddish, with blackish markings ; 

 dorsal line pale ; subdorsal line pale, interrupted; spiracular line 

 pale, dark-edged above. JFood-plants, Salix and po^jlar. 5. 



3287. Sidemia devastatrix. (Plate CXIX. fig. 2.) 



Fhalmna devastator, Brace, Am. Journ. Sci. i. p. 154 (1819) ; Fitch, 2n(i 



Eep. Ins. N.Y. p. 315, pi. 3. f . 2 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N.Am. p. 136. 

 Mamestra ahjeda, Guen. JS^oct. i. p. 193 (1852), nee Hiibn. 

 Mamestra ordinaria, Wlk. ix. 232 ( 1856). 

 Mamestra contenta, Wlk. ix. 233 (1856). 

 j4^roi;f«wiarsAa/ten«,Westw.Humphr. Br.Moths,i.p. 122, pi. 24. f. 15(1857). 



Head and thorax grey mixed with reddish brown ; tegulas with 

 slight dark medial line ; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; abdomen grey tinged with brown. Pore wing grey suffused 

 with brown and irrorated with black ; subbasal line represented by 

 double black striae from costa and cell ; a more or less developed black 

 streak below base of cell and another above inner margin before the 

 antemedial line, which is double, oblique, waved ; claviform more or 

 less developed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with slight 

 white annuli defined by black, the former oblique elhptical, open 

 above, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; an 

 indistinct curved waved medial line ; postmedial line more or less 

 distinctly double filled in with grey, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate and produced to black and white points on the 



