. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 668 NOCTUIDiE. black, the postmedial area slightlj' suffused with fuscous; siibbasal line represented by slight double black strise from costa; ante- medial line double, erect, waved, obsolescent on costal half; orbi- cular very small, defined by black, irregularly rounded ; reniform dirty whitish defined by black, constricted at middle ; a diffused fuscous medial line oblique from costa to below cell, then in- curved; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 668 NOCTUIDiE. black, the postmedial area slightlj' suffused with fuscous; siibbasal line represented by slight double black strise from costa; ante- medial line double, erect, waved, obsolescent on costal half; orbi- cular very small, defined by black, irregularly rounded ; reniform dirty whitish defined by black, constricted at middle ; a diffused fuscous medial line oblique from costa to below cell, then in- curved; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line indistinct, whitish grey, defined on inner side by dark suffusion at costa, a dentate brown line at middle and dentate black marks below veins 3 and 2, dentate at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; a terminal series of small black lunules; cilia chequered whitish and fuscous. Hind wing yellow, with terminal fuscous brown band with waved inner edge, wide at apex, narrowing to tornus ; some yellow on termen in submedian interspace ; cilia whitish with series of fuscous spots ; the under- side with the costal and terminal areas whitish irrorated with brown, a difi'used fuscous subterminal band. Hah. Spain ; Sicily, 1 ^S • Ejcp- 50 millim. Sect. IT. {Polyphanis). An1enna3of male bipectiiiate with very short branches, the apical part serrate. 3564. Polyphaenis sericata. Noctua sericata, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 108. f. 4(1787); Stand. Cat. Lap pal. p. 184. Noctua^sericina, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 183 (1790); Mill. Icones, pi. 104. f. 2. Noctua prospicua, Hlibu. Eiu'. Schmett., Noct. f. 108 (1802); Dup. Lep. Er. vi. p. 398, pi. 97. f. 4; Err. ]S^eue Beitr. pi. 213. Poli/pkcenis nebuUfera, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent, ^v. 1841, p. 245. Folyphanis propinqua, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 298 (1895). Polyphmnis viridata, Eagusa, Nat. Sicil. xvii. p. 18, pi. i. f. 1 (1904). Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and some fuscous; sides of palpi and
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