. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 238 KOCTUID^. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58; Barrett, Lep. Brit, iv. p. 282, pi. 167. f. 1. Yellow-green, dorsallj- suffused with reddish ; dorsal line pale reddish marked with V-shaped black spots ; a subdorsal series of hlack marks, spiracular line pale yellowish ; head greenish speckled with brown. Food-plants: Grasses, Cichorium. J0-4. Sect. IV. Antennse of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore TrtMng black tinged with purplish grey nigra. B. Fore wing black mixed with dark brown haasi. 2387. Aporophyla nig
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 238 KOCTUID^. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58; Barrett, Lep. Brit, iv. p. 282, pi. 167. f. 1. Yellow-green, dorsallj- suffused with reddish ; dorsal line pale reddish marked with V-shaped black spots ; a subdorsal series of hlack marks, spiracular line pale yellowish ; head greenish speckled with brown. Food-plants: Grasses, Cichorium. J0-4. Sect. IV. Antennse of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore TrtMng black tinged with purplish grey nigra. B. Fore wing black mixed with dark brown haasi. 2387. Aporophyla nigra. Noctua nigra, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 192 (1809); Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 110, pi. 20. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. Noctua cethiops, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. (i7 C1816); Gever, Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 861 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. pi. 147. f. 2 & iii. pi. 221. Noctua nigricans, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 538 (1827); Greyer, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 859-60. Aporo'phyla seileri, Fuchs, Stett. ent. Zeit. xii. p. 128 (1901). Head and thorax black with a purplish-grey gloss; tegulae with black medial line; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown tinged with groy and with some whitish hair at base. Pore wing black suffused with purplish grey and slightly irrorated with white, chiefly on the veins which are slightly darker; a double dentate subbasol line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved antemedial line ; claviform moderate, defined by black; orbicular and reniform defined by black; the former oblique elliptical, the Latter with more or less developed ochreous points on its outer edge; an irregularly waved indistinct medial line oblique. Fig. 77.—Aj)oroijhyla nigra, J • f • from costa to lower angle of cell; postmcdial line double, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line formed by a series of obscure dentate dark marks with a few ochreous scales on their o
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