. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 786 NOCTTJIDiE. white irroration bej'ond them; a terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by white at middle; cilia brown towards apex and tornus, white at middle. Hind wing white with narrow terminal fuscous band from apex to vein 2 or narrowing to tornus; cilia fuscous at apex ; the underside with blackish medial and post- medial bars from costa and patch at apex. 2 . Hind wing suffused with fuscous brown leaving some white in lower part of cell and on inner area, a dark discoidal bar and sinuous postmedial lin
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 786 NOCTTJIDiE. white irroration bej'ond them; a terminal series of black striae defined on inner side by white at middle; cilia brown towards apex and tornus, white at middle. Hind wing white with narrow terminal fuscous band from apex to vein 2 or narrowing to tornus; cilia fuscous at apex ; the underside with blackish medial and post- medial bars from costa and patch at apex. 2 . Hind wing suffused with fuscous brown leaving some white in lower part of cell and on inner area, a dark discoidal bar and sinuous postmedial line slightly defined by white on outer side ; the. ~Tarac7iecafraria, S- ?• underside white with discoidal point, medial bar from costa, incom- plete postmedial line, and terminal band with dentate inner edge, Ab. 1. 2 . Fore wing with the dark area extending to ante- medial line ; hind wing nearly uniformly suffused with fuscous brown.—Br. E. Africa. Hab. Br. E. Afkica, Kikuyu (Crmvsliaj/), 1 $ ; Transvaal, Piet Retief (Crawshay), 2 (^, Kranspan [Janse), 1 c? ; Zultiland, Lr. Tugela {Reynolds), i J, 1 $ ; Natal, Estcourt {Hutchinson), 2 cf, Newcastle, 1 S , Durban {Boiuher, Leigh), 2 $ ; Cape Colont {Sir A. Smith), 1 5, Knysna {Trimen), 1 c?, 1 $, Simonstown {de la Garde), 1 d , 1 $ , Cape Town {Trimen), 1 c^ , 1 § . Exp. 32- 40 millim. 6185. Tarache lucida. I^octua lucida, Hiifn. Mag. iii. p. 302 (1766); Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 310; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. Noctua Solaris, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 90 (1776); Esp. Sclinaett. iv. pi. 88. ff. 2, 3 (17ti8); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. .307, 308; Dup. Lep. Fr. Yii. pt. 1, p. 346, pi. 121. ff. 1, 2 ; Err. Neue Beitr. pi. 345. Noctua albicollis, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 218 (1781). Ncciua rwpicola, Borkh. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. 82 (1792). Koctua imolairix, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. (1822). Acontia titania, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 84, pi. 533 (1852), nee Esp. Acontia triradiata, Wlk. xii. 794 (
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