NOCTUELIA. 445 



Sect. 1. Palpi with the 2nd joint fringed with long hair below; 

 fore wing of male with a slight fovea on underside above base 

 of vein 7. 



5273. Noctuelia floralis, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. fig. 142. 

 Pyralis stygialis, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. vii, p. 176. 

 Herbula meleagrisalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 324 ; C. # S. no. 4362. 

 Eudorea transversalis, Moore, A. M. N. H. (5) i, p. 235 ; id, 

 2nd Yarkand Mission, Lep. p. 14 ; C. fy S. no. 4298. 



Greyish ochreous suffused with brown : abdomen banded with 

 fuscous. Pore wing with diffused brown basal, subbasal, medial, 



and submarginal bands ; narrow 

 black ante- and postmedial bands 

 overlaid with grey scales, the lat- 

 ter excurved between veins 6 and 

 4 ; two black discocellular spots 

 conjoined into an oblique streak 

 and surrounded by grey scales. 

 Fig. VSn.—Noctudia floralis, <$ . f . Hind wing pal e dull orange, with 



a slight dark mark at lower angle 

 of cell ; a black-brown postmedial band angled at vein 2 and a 

 black-brown marginal band. Underside clear ochreous ; fore wing 

 with a black spot in cell and oblique discocellular band ; both 

 wings with black postmedial line. 



The European form is usually larger and darker than the Indian 

 race meleagrisalis, the hind wing being more or less suffused with 

 brown, in the variety stygialis both wings being wholly suffused 

 with brown. 



Sab. Europe ; Syria ; Tarkand ; Afghanistan ; N.W. Himalayas ; 

 Punjab ; Sind ; Bombay. Exp. 16-20 millim. 



5274. Noctuelia fractilinealis, Ersch., Fedtschenko, Reise Turk., Lep. 

 p. 77, pi. 5, fig. 82. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white suffused with pale brown. 

 Pore wing pale brown, the scales pencilled with white ; a dark 

 antemedial line with white inner edge acutely angled below costa 

 and slightly below cell ; a comma- shaped white discocellular mark 

 with black spot at lower angle of cell ; a dark postmedial line with 

 white outer edge very much excurved beyond cell ; white and dark 

 specks on costa towards apex ; a dark marginal line ; the base of 

 cilia white. Hind wing brown ; the cilia white. 



Hob. Persia ; Turkestan ; Kashmir. Exp. 18 millim. 



Sect. II. Palpi with the 2nd joint smoothly scaled ; male with 

 paired tufts of hair from behind the eyes meeting over vertex 

 of head, and no fovea beyond cell of fore wing. 



5275. Noctuelia fuscinervis, n. sp. 



cJ . Head and thorax dingy brown variegated with fuscous 



