. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 194 X0CTUIDJ5. b^. Fore wing with white patch on medial area. a^. Fore wing witli the wfiite patch not extending below submedian fold. a*. Fore wing olive-brown not suffused with fuscous albimacula. h*. Fore wing olive-brown suffused with fuscous ... conspersa. h^. Fore wing with the white patch extending to inner margin. a*. Fore wing with the claviform large, forming part of the dark area compta. 6*. Fore wing with the claviform absent guenei. 1406. Polia cucubali. Koctua cucubali, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776); Esp. Sch
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 194 X0CTUIDJ5. b^. Fore wing with white patch on medial area. a^. Fore wing witli the wfiite patch not extending below submedian fold. a*. Fore wing olive-brown not suffused with fuscous albimacula. h*. Fore wing olive-brown suffused with fuscous ... conspersa. h^. Fore wing with the white patch extending to inner margin. a*. Fore wing with the claviform large, forming part of the dark area compta. 6*. Fore wing with the claviform absent guenei. 1406. Polia cucubali. Koctua cucubali, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776); Esp. Schraett. iv. pi. 173. f. 6; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 56; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 331, pi. 93. f. 5; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 187; Curt. Brit. Ent. p. 308; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 163. Noctua rivularis, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 234 (1781). Nochia rivosa, Strom. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skr. p. 77 (1783). Noctua behensis, Frr. Beitr. v. p. 142, ^\. 467. f. 4 (1831). Dianthxeia mandarina, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 51. Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purple, grey, and dark scales; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing red-brown, irrorated with fuscous and suffused with violaceous especially near the lines ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to. mm ^s=^ ^^ Fig. 26.—Volia cucubali, ? . }. submedian fold; antemedial line double, waved; claviform large, suffused with and defined by black : orbicular and reniform with brown centres and yellow annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, usually conjoined to the latter, which is more or less angled inwards on median nervure; an indistinct waved medial line; postmedial line double, the inner crenulate, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellow, defined on inner side by diffused blackish, somewhat dentate marks and some difli'used black on outer, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate at veins 4,
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