. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. APOROPHYLA. 237 Schmett., Noct. ff. 159-60, 406 ; Mill. leones, p. 202, pi. 2. ff. 4-8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. Agrotis pascuea, Curt. Brit. Eiit. v. p. 165 (1827), iion descr.; i. p. 152 (1852). Xylina orientalis, Eur. Sclimett., Xoct. ff. 502-3 (1845). Noctua scri2}tura, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 87, pi. 255. f. 2 (1847); Scbaff. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 504-5. Noctua ingenua, Frr. Neue Beitr. -vi. p. 42, pi. 508 (1847). Aporophyla morosa, Bell. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1862, p
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. APOROPHYLA. 237 Schmett., Noct. ff. 159-60, 406 ; Mill. leones, p. 202, pi. 2. ff. 4-8; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. Agrotis pascuea, Curt. Brit. Eiit. v. p. 165 (1827), iion descr.; i. p. 152 (1852). Xylina orientalis, Eur. Sclimett., Xoct. ff. 502-3 (1845). Noctua scri2}tura, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 87, pi. 255. f. 2 (1847); Scbaff. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 504-5. Noctua ingenua, Frr. Neue Beitr. -vi. p. 42, pi. 508 (1847). Aporophyla morosa, Bell. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1862, p. 616, pi. 14. f. 7. • Aporophyla britannica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1869, p. 91. Aporophyla cinerea, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178 (1901). Head and thorax brown mixed with grey; metathoracic crest fuscous ; fore tibiae fuscous ringed with white: abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Pore wing whitish almost entirely suffused with brown, the costal area tinged with fuscous; the veins with dark streaks ; a black streak below base of cell and an oblique streak above inner margin before middle ; subbasal line represented by oblique strias from costa and cell; antemedial line defined by white on inner side, highly dentate, in submedian fold often to the. Fig. 76.—Aporophyla australis, c? • t- postmedial line ; claviform more or less developed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique elliptical or irregular, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure and with some fuscous in its lower part; a slight irregular medial shade; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent out- wards below costa, then highly dentate, closely approximated to reniform and incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a series of dentate fuscous marks in the interspaces; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area slightly
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