. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 424 NOCTUID^. Sect. III. Antennte of male minutely serrate with fascicles of rery long cilia, A. Foi'e wing with the orbiculai- small, round. a. Fore wing with the subtermiual line almost obsolete h. Fore wing with the subterminal line distinctly definecl. ay. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly and irregularly waved templi. b^. Fore wing with the antemedial line minutely waved ... fani. B. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate elliptical gerhillus. *2622. Dasypolia ferdinandi. (Plate CYI.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 424 NOCTUID^. Sect. III. Antennte of male minutely serrate with fascicles of rery long cilia, A. Foi'e wing with the orbiculai- small, round. a. Fore wing with the subtermiual line almost obsolete h. Fore wing with the subterminal line distinctly definecl. ay. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly and irregularly waved templi. b^. Fore wing with the antemedial line minutely waved ... fani. B. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate elliptical gerhillus. *2622. Dasypolia ferdinandi. (Plate CYI. fig. 3.) Dasypolia ferdinandi, Eilhl, Soc. Ent. vi. p. 169 (1892); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. Head and thorax pale grey-brown mixed with fuscous; sides of palpi and frons dark brown ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Pore wing pale olive-grey thickly irrorated Avith brown, the medial area with the cell and costal area slightly darker; subbasal line absent; ante- medial line brownish, oblique, waved ; claviform absent; orbicular a greyish ochreous point; reniform small with greyish ochreous annulus, undefined; postmedial line brownish, rather diff'used, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then very oblique and angled outwards on vein 1, some greyish points beyond it on costa; subterminal line very indistinct, pale, slightly defined by brownish on inner side, somewhat angled out- wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia brownish grey with a slight brown line through them. Hind wing pale greyish slightly tinged with brown; the underside irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and diff'used sinuous postmedial line. Hab. Sw^TZEKLAND, Zcrmatt in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 40 millim. 2623. Dasypolia templi. Noctua templi, Thunbg. Diss. Ent. iv. p. 56, f. 3 (1792); Hiibn. Schmett., Noct. f. 373 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 43, pi. 75. f. 1; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 31, pi. 26. f. 1;
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