. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 4'2i NOCTUID^. Sect. III. Antenna' of nmic minutely serrate with fascicles of very long cilia. A. Fore winij willi the orbicular small, rouiitl. a. Fore wing with tiie subterniiual lino almost obsolete Jerdinandi. b. Fore wing with tlie subteriuinal line defined. «'. Fore wing with the anteniedial line strongly and irregularly wavwl tcmpU. /)'. Fore wing with the anteniedial line minutely waved ... fani. B. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate elliptical gerbillus. •2G22. Dasypolia ferdinaudi. (riate CVI. fig. 3.)
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 4'2i NOCTUID^. Sect. III. Antenna' of nmic minutely serrate with fascicles of very long cilia. A. Fore winij willi the orbicular small, rouiitl. a. Fore wing with tiie subterniiual lino almost obsolete Jerdinandi. b. Fore wing with tlie subteriuinal line defined. «'. Fore wing with the anteniedial line strongly and irregularly wavwl tcmpU. /)'. Fore wing with the anteniedial line minutely waved ... fani. B. Fore wing with the orbicular elongate elliptical gerbillus. •2G22. Dasypolia ferdinaudi. (riate CVI. fig. 3.) Dasjipolia ferdinandi, Eiihl, Soc. Ent. vi. p. 169 (1892); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. Head and thorax pale grcy-browu witli fuscous; sides of palpi and frons dark l)rowu ; abdomen pale grey-brown. Fore wine: pale olive-grey thiclcly 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; postniedial line brownish, rather diftused, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then ver}- oblique and angled ontwards on vein 1, some greyish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal lino 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 gi'cyish slightly tinged with brown; the underside irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot and diffused sinuous postmedial line. Ilah. Switzerland, Zermatt in Coll. PUngeler. Exp. 40 millim. 2623. Dasypolia templi. yodua iempli, Thunbg. Diss. Ent. iv. p. 56. f. 3 (179-2); Hiibn. Eur. Noct. f. 373 : Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 43, pi. 7.'). t. 1; Steph. 111. Brit. Haust. iii. p. 31. pi. 26. f. 1;
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