. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GRAMMODES. 19 Noctua hifasckda, Petag. Spec. Ins. p. 38, f. 26 (1T87). Kociua linearis, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. p. 26, pi. iv. f. T (1791). Noctua chalciptera, Borkh. Schniett. Eur. iv. p. 771 (1792). Noctua parallel arts, Hiibn. Eur. ScbmetL, Noct. f. 324 (1802). Head and thorax brown irrorated with grey; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown irrorated with grey; a black patch before the oblique yellowish white medial band, its inner edge extending obliquely from middle of cell to submedian fold, then
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. GRAMMODES. 19 Noctua hifasckda, Petag. Spec. Ins. p. 38, f. 26 (1T87). Kociua linearis, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. p. 26, pi. iv. f. T (1791). Noctua chalciptera, Borkh. Schniett. Eur. iv. p. 771 (1792). Noctua parallel arts, Hiibn. Eur. ScbmetL, Noct. f. 324 (1802). Head and thorax brown irrorated with grey; pectus, legs, and abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown irrorated with grey; a black patch before the oblique yellowish white medial band, its inner edge extending obliquely from middle of cell to submedian fold, then erect to inner margin, the band extending to discal fold and with a slight black line from it to costa to which it is slightly bent inwards; medial area black from just above discal fold to inner margin ; a rather oblique postmedial band from vein 6 to inner margin, yellowish white on inner side, rufous on outer, its inner edge bent inwards to inner margin near the medial. — Gmmmodes geomdrica, c?. ,. band and with a slight blackish line from it to costa to which it is bent inwards, the outer edge of the band defined by black, excurved at middle and slightly at vein 2 and inner margin; an oblique black mark from apex to above vein 6, where it is bent inwards to just above the outer edge of the postmedial band ; a faint curved pale shade from apex to tornus; a slight crenulate dark terminal line ; cilia with a faint dark line at middle. Hind wing brown, the terminal half tinged with fuscous; an oblique whitish band from middle of costa to above tornus; an oblique whitish shade from vein 3 to termen at submedian fold; cilia white, brown at middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing greyish browii with white postmedial band from below costa to inner margin ; hind wing pale brown, a slight dark discoidal spot, faint minutely Avaved medial and postmedial lines, and a shade except on inner area. c2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page
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