. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 470 NOCTtJIDJE. 495-J. Apanstis rupicola. Noctua rupicola, Sebiff. Wien. Verz. p. 90 (177fi); Hiibii. Beitr. i. pt, 4, p. 8, pi. 2, F (1789); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 192. f. 1; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 295, pi. 115. f. F; Frr. Beitr. iv. i>l. 330. f. 1; Eiir. Scbmett., Noct. ff. 213-14 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 1^'octua palliata, Fabr. Mant. Ids. ii. p. 144 (1787). Noctua pallium, Borkli. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 92 (1792). Noctua hcliophila, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 317 (1802). Head, tcgulse, and


. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 470 NOCTtJIDJE. 495-J. Apanstis rupicola. Noctua rupicola, Sebiff. Wien. Verz. p. 90 (177fi); Hiibii. Beitr. i. pt, 4, p. 8, pi. 2, F (1789); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 192. f. 1; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 295, pi. 115. f. F; Frr. Beitr. iv. i>l. 330. f. 1; Eiir. Scbmett., Noct. ff. 213-14 ; Stand. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 220. 1^'octua palliata, Fabr. Mant. Ids. ii. p. 144 (1787). Noctua pallium, Borkli. Eur. Schmett. iv. p. 92 (1792). Noctua hcliophila, Hiibn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 317 (1802). Head, tcgulse, and patagia fulvous orange; thorax red-brown, with some white scales on patagia and metathorax; hinder part of pectus and mid and hind legs mostly brown, the tarsi pale j'ellow ; abdomen brown at base, yellow at extremity. Fore wing red-brdwn with a cupreous gloss and some grey irroration; subbasal line repre- serited by a brown striga from costa ; antemedial line brown, erect, waved ; an indistinct diffused red-brOAvu medial shade ; postmedial line brown defined by white on outer side at costa, slightly bent. Fig. 227.—Apanstis rupicola, ^. |. outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, somewhat angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line defined by a brown shade on inner side, white towards costa, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of dark stria); cilia white with a series of black spots. Hind wing red-brown with a cupreous gloss ; cilia white with a series of small blackish spots; the underside tinged with grey, a faint dark discoidal lunule and diffused curved postmedial and subterminal bands. Hah. Atjsteia ; Hungaet, Zellcr, Trey, and Leech Colls.; Bulgaria ; S. Eussia, Sarepta ; Asia Minor, Pontus, Taurus, 1 $ ; Kurdistan ; W. Ttjrki;stan, Ala Tau. Exp. 20-24 millim. 4955. Apanstis theophila. (Plate CXLYI. fig. 32.) Heliodes theophila, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1866, p. 56; id. Hor.


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