. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. so 3G03. Daseochaeta alpiiim. Nocfua ludifica, Sepp, Ins. Ned. i. (4) p. 41, pi. 9. ff. 1-8 (1732), nee Linn. Noctua aprilina, Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (177(;); Sepp, ins. Ned. iv. (corrigenda); Hiibn. Eur. Sehniett., Noct. f. 22 (nee Linn.). Noctua alpiiim. Osbeck, Gotlieb. Saninil. Handl. (Wet. Aid.) i. p. r)2, pi. 1. f. 2 (1778); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. Noctua orion, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 118. ff. 4-7 (1787); Dup. Lep. Fr. vl. p. 203, pi. 85. f. 5 ; Stepli. 111. Erit. Ent., Haust. iii. pi. 4(1 f. 2 ; Curt.


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. so 3G03. Daseochaeta alpiiim. Nocfua ludifica, Sepp, Ins. Ned. i. (4) p. 41, pi. 9. ff. 1-8 (1732), nee Linn. Noctua aprilina, Scliiff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (177(;); Sepp, ins. Ned. iv. (corrigenda); Hiibn. Eur. Sehniett., Noct. f. 22 (nee Linn.). Noctua alpiiim. Osbeck, Gotlieb. Saninil. Handl. (Wet. Aid.) i. p. r)2, pi. 1. f. 2 (1778); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. Noctua orion, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 118. ff. 4-7 (1787); Dup. Lep. Fr. vl. p. 203, pi. 85. f. 5 ; Stepli. 111. Erit. Ent., Haust. iii. pi. 4(1 f. 2 ; Curt. Brir. Ent. v. pi. 404 ; Err. Beitr. pi. 22. Noctua runica, Ginel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2561 (1788). Moma omirrhina, Grjes. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 314. Head and thorax emerald-green ; palpi black, the extrenaity oP 2nd joint white, tlie 3rd joint white with black band ; sides of Irons black; antenna^ ringed black and white at base ; tegula? black, white at base and white and green at tips ; patagia mostly black at tips ; vertex of thorax with some idack hair ; pectus and legs white mixed with brown, the tarsi banded brown and white; abdomen pale brown with white segmental rings, the crests black, the yentral surface whitish. Fore Aving emerald-green ; a white fascia in submedian fold from base to postmedial line, the costal edge white ; a subbasal black point on costa; a black anteraedial band expanding into a patch on costa, slightly angled inwards in cil] and outwards on niediaJi nervuie, angled inwards to base at. Fig. 7.—Bafcoclueta alpiinn, J. |. vein 1, where it is interrupted; orbicular represented by a very oblique black mark conflueut with the lower edge of reniform, which is represented by two black bars on a white patch, with black patch from costa to inner bar with points before and beyond it; a medial black line from origin of vein 2 to inner margin, angled outwards in submedian fold and forming a triangular mark on vein 1 with oblique black striae before a


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