. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 50 Ji. Fore wing with the antemeclial line less oblique and slightly sinuous below submedian fold. a?. Foi-e wing grey-brown without series of whitish points beyond postmedial line phaochroa. 62. Fore wing olive-brown with series of whitish points beyond postmedial line olivescaria. 2785. Mania maura. Noctua maura, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 512 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 107. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 326; Frr. Beitr. pi. .53; Godavt, Lep. Fr. v. pi. 64. ff. 1, 2 ; Don. Brit. Ins. v
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 50 Ji. Fore wing with the antemeclial line less oblique and slightly sinuous below submedian fold. a?. Foi-e wing grey-brown without series of whitish points beyond postmedial line phaochroa. 62. Fore wing olive-brown with series of whitish points beyond postmedial line olivescaria. 2785. Mania maura. Noctua maura, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 512 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 107. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 326; Frr. Beitr. pi. .53; Godavt, Lep. Fr. v. pi. 64. ff. 1, 2 ; Don. Brit. Ins. vii. pi. 230. f. 1 ; Staph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 129; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. TJialcBoia lenmr, Meinecke, Naturf. vi. pi. 5. f. 1 (1775). Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; patagia with grey upper edge, the tips of crests grey ; abdomen dark fuscous brown, the crests grey at tips. Fore wing grey tinged with flesh- colour and fuscous, the medial area dark fuscous brown except on. Fig. 11.âjMania maura, S ⢠\- costal area; subbasal line represented by double cui'ved black striae from costa filled in with grey and double oblique black marks from cell filled in with grey ; anteraedial line with double oblique widely separated fuscous stria3 from costa, then indistinctly double filled in with grey, curved and sinuous to vein 1, then strongly bent inwards to inner margin ; orbicular grey slightly defined by black scales and with its centre irrorated with some black scales, obliquely lunulate, concave towards base; reniform large, blackish, irrorated with some greyish and with pale aunulus slightly defined by black, angled inward on subcostal nervure and on median nervure to near orbicular, its outer edge minutely waved and its lower extremity produced and truncate; an oblique diffused fuscous striga from costa to reniform; the inner margin with slight reddish streak on medial area ; postmedial line do\ible, the lines widely separated at costa and fill
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