. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. APOROPHTLA. 237 Schmett., Noct. ff. 159-60, 406 ; Mill. Icones, p. 202, pi. 2. ff. 4-8; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. Agrofis pascuea, Curt. Brit. Ent. t. p. 165 (1827), non descr.; i. p. 152 (1852). Xi/llna oricnialis, Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 502-3 (1845). Koctua .scriptwa, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 87, pi. 255. f. 2 (1847); Scbiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 504-5. Noctua inqcmta, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 42, pi. 508 (1847). Aporoph/la morosa, Bell. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1862, p. 616, pi. 14. f. 7


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. APOROPHTLA. 237 Schmett., Noct. ff. 159-60, 406 ; Mill. Icones, p. 202, pi. 2. ff. 4-8; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. Agrofis pascuea, Curt. Brit. Ent. t. p. 165 (1827), non descr.; i. p. 152 (1852). Xi/llna oricnialis, Eur. Sclimett., Noct. ff. 502-3 (1845). Koctua .scriptwa, Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 87, pi. 255. f. 2 (1847); Scbiiff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 504-5. Noctua inqcmta, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 42, pi. 508 (1847). Aporoph/la morosa, Bell. Ann. Soe. Ent. Fr. 1862, p. 616, pi. 14. f. 7. Aporophi/la hritannica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1869, ]). 91. Aporophyla cinerea, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178 (1901). Head and thorax browu mixed with grey; metathoracic crest fuscous ; fore tibice fuscous i-inged with white; abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing whitish almost entirely suffused with brown, the costal area tinged with fuscous; the veins with dark streaks ; a black streak below base of cell and an obliqiie streak above inner margin before middle ; subbasal line represented by oblique stride from costa and cell; antemedial line defined by white on inner side, highlv dentate, in submedian fold often to the. Fig. 76.—Aporophyla australis, ^. postmedial line ; claviform more or less develoj^ed, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former oblique elliptical or irregular, the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure and with some fuscous in its lower part; a slight irregular medial shade; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent out- wards below costa, then highly dentate, closely approximated to reniform and incurved below vein 4, some white points be5-ond it on costa; subterminal line represented by a series of dentate fuscous marks iu the interspaces; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area slightly tinged with brown; the u


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