. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 442 NOCTTJID^ b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- brown devastairix. b^. Fore wing with the subterminal lino indistinct. «â *. Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish grey sfandfussi. 6'. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- white "... zollkofcri. 3281. Sidemia speciosa. Noctiia speciosa, Brem. LejD. Ost-Sib. p. 50, pi. 4. f. 10 (1864); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. Agrotis hremeri, Ersch. Trudy Euss. Entom. Obs. ir. pp. , 194 (1867). Sidemia s,nelleni, Staud. Eoin. Alem. vi. p. 459, pi. 7. f
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 442 NOCTTJID^ b^. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- brown devastairix. b^. Fore wing with the subterminal lino indistinct. «â *. Fore wing with the ground-colour bluish grey sfandfussi. 6'. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey- white "... zollkofcri. 3281. Sidemia speciosa. Noctiia speciosa, Brem. LejD. Ost-Sib. p. 50, pi. 4. f. 10 (1864); Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 171. Agrotis hremeri, Ersch. Trudy Euss. Entom. Obs. ir. pp. , 194 (1867). Sidemia s,nelleni, Staud. Eoin. Alem. vi. p. 459, pi. 7. f. 8 (1892). Head and thorax grey mixed with brown ; sides of palpi and frons reddish brown ; patagia edged v\ith brown on outer side ; metathoracic crest with some black-tipped scales; pectus and legs reddish brown, the tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen grey tinged with brown, the ventral surface and anal tuft darker brown. Pore wing grey suffused with brown except at base and on costal area to postmedial line ; subbasal line indistinct, double filled in with grey, obliquely curved, from costa to vein 1; a dark brown patch below the cell before the antemedial line, which is double filled in with white, angled outwards below costa, then retracted. and obsolescent to median nervure, then strong, obliquely excurved and slightly incurved at vein 1, defined by grey on outer side towards inner margin ; claviform indistinctly defined by blackish at extremity ; orbicular and reniform pale brown with whitish annuli defined by black, open above and below and rather quadrate; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, strongly excurved below vein 7, oblique and slightly incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish with slight brown marks before it below costa and at middle, excurved below vein 7, excurved at middle and somewhat dentate at veins 4,3; the termen somewhat greyer with a series of minute dark lunules ;
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