448 



3289. Sideniia zoUicoferi. 



Noctua zollikoferi, Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. p. 145, pi. 184. ff. 1, 2 (1836) ; Dup. 

 Lep. Fr., Sappl. iv. p. 209, pi. 68. ff. 1 «, 6 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., 

 Noct. ff. 103-4 ; Friv. Tud. Akad. Erkon. xi. pt. 4, pi. 5. f. 9 ; Barrett, 

 Brit. Lep. iv. p. 367 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 169. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen pale grey tinged with brown ; 

 antennse white ; sides of palpi and frons blackish ; legs irrorated 

 with fuscous, the tarsi with pale rings. Fore wing grey tinged 

 with brown and slightly irrorated with fuscous ; faint traces of an 

 antemedial line with two dark strias from costa ; claviform absent ; 

 traces of a small elliptical orbicular with pale annulus ; reuiform 

 slightly defined by fuscous, small and rather irregular ; faint traces 

 of a pale postmedial line with dark striae from costa, bent outwards 

 below costa, then with series of black points beyond it on the 

 veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; a very indistinct pale subterminal line faintly defined 

 by brown on inner side, somewhat angled outwards at vein 7 ; 

 a terminal series of minute dark points ; cilia with a slight whitish 

 line at base. Hind wing white slightly tinged with brown, espe- 

 cially on the veins and terminal area ; cilia pure white ; the 

 underside white. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with fuscous suffusion in, below, and beyond 

 cell and in interspaces of terminal area except at apex and 

 tornus. — Urals, in Coll. Staudinger. 



Hah. Britain, E. England ; N. Germany ; Hungary, Leech 

 Coll.; Switzerland; Galicia ; Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll., Urals, 

 Zeller Coll. ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, 1 $ ; E. Turkestan, 

 Korla, Kaschgar. Exp. 42-52 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. Moths Eur. p. 219; Hffm. Eaup. p. 296. 



Green ; feeds on low mountain plants and grasses. 5-6, 



Genus ECBOLEMIA, nov. 



Type, E. misella. 



Proboscis absent ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed with hair in front, the 

 3rd joint short ; frons with elliptical corneous prominence, roughened in front ; 

 eyes large, rounded ; antenna uf male ciliated ; head and thorax clothed witli 

 hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and rnetathorax with spreading crests, tibise 

 fringed with hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Fore wing with the termen slightly crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 oi' cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



*3290. Ecbolemia misella. 



Margelana misella, Piing. Iris, xviii. p. 219, pi. 8. f. 1 (1906). 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish ochreous mixed with brown ; 

 palpi blackish at sides ; tarsi banded with black. Fore wing pale 

 ochreous irrorated with dark brown ; subbasal line represented by 



