. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CRANIOPHORA. 0/ 3633. Craniophora ligustri. Noctua ligustri, SoliifF. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 172 (1787); Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 119. ff. 1-4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f, 21 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vi. p. , pi. 89. f. 1 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 142; Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. iii. p. 38; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. JSoctualitterata, SchaiF. Ins. p. 115, pi. 105. ff. 3, 4 (1804). Noctua coronula. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 179 (1809). Acronycta sundcDalli, Lampa, Ent. Tidskr. 1885, p. 50. Acronyc


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CRANIOPHORA. 0/ 3633. Craniophora ligustri. Noctua ligustri, SoliifF. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 172 (1787); Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 119. ff. 1-4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f, 21 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vi. p. , pi. 89. f. 1 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 142; Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. iii. p. 38; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 134. JSoctualitterata, SchaiF. Ins. p. 115, pi. 105. ff. 3, 4 (1804). Noctua coronula. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 179 (1809). Acronycta sundcDalli, Lampa, Ent. Tidskr. 1885, p. 50. Acronycta olivacea, Tutt, Entom. lySB, p. 81; Ter. Haar. Tijds. xlii. p. 97, f. 1. Acronycta nigra, Tutt, Ent. Ree. i. p. 34 (1890). Head white mixed with some black-brown ; palpi black-brown except at tips; frons with brown bars above and between antennae, which are brown ; thorax black-brown, the tegulse with the basal half mostly white with black medial line and white dorsal streak, the patagia and vertex of thorax with white patches ; pectus and legs brown mixed with brownish white, the tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown, the crests dark. Fore wing dark reddish brown with whitish patches from end of cell to postmedial line and on termen at apex and just below middle ; subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa. Fig. 16.—CraniojpTioraligu&tri, <^. \. with bar beyond it in cell and single striga from cell with short streak beyond its lower extremity ; antemedial line double, waved, oblique, strongly incurved at vein 1 and excurved above inner margin; orbicular with white annulus defined by black, round; reniform large, defined by black with slight white line on inner edge and strong lunule on outer; medial line a black bar from costa to orbicular and sinuous line from cell to inner margin; postmedial line double filled in with white from below costa to vein 3, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved


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