. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 368 NocrtaDJE. claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined b)' black, the former round, a black fascia between them in cell continued beyond the reniform to the postmedial line ; an obscure waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rath
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 368 NocrtaDJE. claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined b)' black, the former round, a black fascia between them in cell continued beyond the reniform to the postmedial line ; an obscure waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; the postmedial line dentate and produced to points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area beyond it rather darker; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing pale suffused with brown especially on costal and terminal areas; the veins brown ; cilia white with a brown line through them ; the underside whiter, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and prominent black apical patch. 2 . Head, thorax, and fore wing darker. Hah. QuEENSLAXD, Brisbane (Turner), 1 S ; , Moreton Bay (Biggies), 2 5, type nitida, Sydney (Biggies, Scott, Mathew), 3 d", 0 $ , type tenebrosa; VicroKiA, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 S, Mel- bourne (Lucas), 1 $ ; S. Ausiralia (BakeweU), 1 5 ; Tasmania, 2 $ . Exj). 40-50 millim. 64G. Agrotis ypsilon. Fvctua ypsilon, Rott. Naturf. ix. p. 141 (177fi); Driice, Biol. Centr-Ain., Het. i. p. 281 ; Hiupsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 182; Smith, Cat. Nuct. N. Am. p. 66 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. lol. HoctiM suffusa, Schitl'. Wien. Verz. p. 80(1776); Fahr. Maiit Ins. ii. p. 157; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 147. f. 6; Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 31. Thalana iclonea. Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 275 H (1782). Bomhyx spinula, Esp. Syhmett. iii. pi. (io. fi'. 6, 7 (1782). KoctKO, robusta, Blanch. Gaj's Ciiile, p. 75, pi. 6. f. 'J (1852). Ayrotis hipars, VVlk. x. 334 (1856). Agrofis frivola, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mou. iv. p. 169 (1860). Agrotis suffusa, var. ]}epoli, Bert. Bull. Ent. Ital. vi. pp. 139-146, pi. iii. (1874). _ Agrotis aurcolum, Scliaus, J. N. Y. Ent.
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