. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 226 NOCTTJID^. Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 2374. Hilliairis. Noctua iris, Zett. In8. Lapp. p. 941 (1840); Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 205. Noctua crasis, Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 361, Noct. ff. 134, 139 (1845); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 147. Orthosia semisigna, Wlk. xi. p. 748 (1857). Agrotis erdmanni, Moscbl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 158 (1874). Hadena senescens, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 235 (1878). Hcidena vigilans, Grote, Bull. Gaol. Surr. iv. p. 176 (1878). Orthosia schildei, Staud. Eom. M
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 226 NOCTTJID^. Sect. II. Antennae of male ciliated. 2374. Hilliairis. Noctua iris, Zett. In8. Lapp. p. 941 (1840); Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 205. Noctua crasis, Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 361, Noct. ff. 134, 139 (1845); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 147. Orthosia semisigna, Wlk. xi. p. 748 (1857). Agrotis erdmanni, Moscbl. Stett. ent. Zeit. xxxv. p. 158 (1874). Hadena senescens, Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 235 (1878). Hcidena vigilans, Grote, Bull. Gaol. Surr. iv. p. 176 (1878). Orthosia schildei, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 510 (1892). Head and thorax deep purple-brown, some of the scales tipped with grey ; tegulse rufous at base with dark medial line and grey tips ; pectus and legs grey and brown, the tarsi black ringed with grey ; abdomen grey suffused with fuscous, the anal tuft rufous, the ventral surface suffused with purplish. Fore wing fuscous suffused with purplish red and slightly irrorated with white, chieflj^ on the veins ; subbasal line indistinct, waved, from costa to submedian. Fig. 70.—Hillia iris, c?. !• fold; antemedial line almost obsolete, double, waved; claviform usually represented by a black point at its extremity : orbicular oblique oblong, strongly defined by black at sides and open above and below ; reniform strongly defined by black on inner side with white annulus and white lunule in centre ; postmedial line only defined by dark suffusion beyond it, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some pale points beyond in on costa : subterminal line whitish, punctiform, defined by ferruginous on inner side and strongly by black between veins 3 and 1; angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous grey suffused with fuscous; the underside tinged with purplish red, a discoidal spot, sinuous postmedial line, and subterminal band all showing through to upperside. Ab. 1. crassis. Ground-colour pale grey ; tegulse edged with
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