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16. Mamestra cervina. 



Lateritio-ferruginea ; abdomen cinereum ; alee anticce nigra con- 

 spersce, maculis reniformi et orbicularis fascia exteriore stri- 

 gisque marginalibus testaceis, striga discali clavata alba ; pos- 

 tica nigro-cinerece, basi pallidiores. 



Mamestra cervina, Eversm. Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 1842, 111, 

 546, 3 ; Faun. Volg-Ural. 246. Gum. Noct. i. 197, 312. 



Polia cervina, Herr.-Schaff'. Eur. Schmett. ii. 272, pi. 33, f. 163, 

 164. 



Sarepta. 



Group 3. 



Abdomen maris et foem. valde cristatum. Alse antieae lituris 

 bene detenninatis ; macula reniformis tota aut fere tota pallida. 



Abdomen of the male and of the female distinctly crested. 

 Fore wings with distinct marks; reuiform spot wholly, or almost 

 wholly pale. 



17. Mamestra furva. 



Cinereo-fusca ; abdomen cinereum ; alee, anticce fasciis angulosis 

 pallidioribus nigricante marginatis, linea transversa angulosa 

 exteriore albida, macula reniformi albido marginata ; posticce 

 cinerece margine, latafuscescente. 



Noctua furva, Wien. Verz. 81, 20. Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett. 



Noct. f. 407. 

 Luperina furva, Boisd. Ind. Meth. 1 14, 876. 

 Mamestra furva, Treit. Schmett. Eur. ii. 154. Dup. Hist. Nat. 



Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. 276, pi. 25. Gum. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. 



238; Noct. i. 197,313. 

 Noctua Freyeri, Frey. Neu. Beit. Schmett. ii. 107, pi. 159. 

 Tholera furva, HYibn. Verz. Schmett. 215, 2140. 

 Mamestra anceps ? Westw. fy H. Brit. Moths, i. 175, pi. 36, f. 15. 

 Hama furva, Steph. Cat. Brit. Lep. 90. 

 Var. Mamestra furva, Eversm. Faun. Volg-Ural. 247. 

 Mamestra infernalis, Eversm. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1842. 

 Var. Mamestra silvicola, Eversm. Bull. Soc. Imp. Mosc. 1842; 



Faun. Volg-Ural. 247. 

 Polia furva, Her r.-S chaff. Schmett. Eur. ii. 276, 291, pi. 58, 



f. 290. 



a. England. Presented by — Dyson, Esq. 



b — d. England. From Mr. Stephens' collection. 



€,/. England. 



