. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 372 NOCTiriD^. 5 . Hiud wing with the postmedial line and diffused subterminal band well developed, the former sinuous ; the underside irrorated with brown, a postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Ab. 1. amasina. Fore wing darker, blue-grey marked with black and white.—Pontus. Hah. Switzerland, Valais, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls., Jura; Asia Minor, Pontus. £^r^9. 34-40 millim. 2550. Antitype cM. Noctua clii, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 514 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 114. ff. 1-3; Hubn.
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 372 NOCTiriD^. 5 . Hiud wing with the postmedial line and diffused subterminal band well developed, the former sinuous ; the underside irrorated with brown, a postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then incurved. Ab. 1. amasina. Fore wing darker, blue-grey marked with black and white.—Pontus. Hah. Switzerland, Valais, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls., Jura; Asia Minor, Pontus. £^r^9. 34-40 millim. 2550. Antitype cM. Noctua clii, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 514 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 114. ff. 1-3; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 49 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 422, pi. 99. f. 3 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 34 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 180. Folia olivacea, Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 325 (1829). Folia subccerulea, G-ras. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 329. S . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; irons with latei-al black bars; tegulse with medial black line; tarsi banded with fuscous; abdomen white irrorated with black. Fore wing white irrorated with olive-grey or fuscous; a double waved subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; a double waved oblique antemedial line; claviform defined by black except above and with a black streak in submedian fold from it to postmedial line; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former rounded or rather quadrate,. the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure; a waved medial line; postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, then dentate, incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, with another more even line beyond it and some white points on costa; sub- terminal line white, defined on inner side by slight dentate fuscous marks and at middle by black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, some slight olive suffusion beyond it ; a terminal series of small streak-like marks; cilia chequered white and fuscous. Hind wing white, with fuscous subterminal marks at middle and below vein 2; a
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