. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 12 NOCTUID^. 1133, Barathra curialis. (Plate XC. fig. 1.) p. 470 (1887); Coynmamestra curialis, Smith, Proc. Nat. Mus, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 113. 2 . Dark fuscous. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas tinged with reddish, also the discal fold iu medial area; the ante- medial inner area with a faint greenish tinge; subbasal line double, indistinct, interrupted ; antemedial line erect, hardly trace- able ; claviform defined by black; orbicular almost obsolete, very faintly defined; reniform moderate, white,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 12 NOCTUID^. 1133, Barathra curialis. (Plate XC. fig. 1.) p. 470 (1887); Coynmamestra curialis, Smith, Proc. Nat. Mus, Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 113. 2 . Dark fuscous. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas tinged with reddish, also the discal fold iu medial area; the ante- medial inner area with a faint greenish tinge; subbasal line double, indistinct, interrupted ; antemedial line erect, hardly trace- able ; claviform defined by black; orbicular almost obsolete, very faintly defined; reniform moderate, white, with irregular dark central lunule and black outline; postmedial line single, black, strongly dentate, bent outwards belosv costa and incurved below vein 4; postmedial area paler than ground-colour, with dark striation and irroration, darker towards costa; subterminal line whitish, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3; terminal area with pale irroration, a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing fuscous, darker towards termen ; the under- side grey with darker irroration, a discoidal spot and postmedial line. Hah. Canada, Orilla (Btish), 1 $ ; , Maine, Kittery Point, New Hampshire, Franconia. Exj). 43 millim. , 1134. Barathra brassicae. Noctua brassies, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 516 (1758); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 88 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 37, pi. 102. f. 5; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 194; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 156. Nocfua albidilinea. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 191 (1809); Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. ii. p. 195. Mamestra andalusica, Staud. Cat. p. 90 (1871). Mamesfra decolorata, Staud. Stett. eut. Zeit. 1889, p. 34. Mamestra scotochroma, Kober, Iris, i. p. 340, pi. 12. f. 13 (1884). Mamestra straminea, Failla, Nat. Sic. x. p. 30, pi. 1. f. 5 (1890). Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; tarsi black with whitish rings; abdomen grey-brown, with the dorsal crests Fig. 5.—Barathra hrassic(B, cf. \. Fore wing dark bro
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