. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 368 KOCTUin^. claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, a black fascia between them in cell continued beyond the reniform to tbe 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, escurved to vein 4, then oblique; the subterminal line very indistinct, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, the area
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 368 KOCTUin^. claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with fuscous centres and grey annuli defined by black, the former round, a black fascia between them in cell continued beyond the reniform to tbe 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, escurved 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. Ilab, Queensland, Brisbane {Turner), 1 d" ; , Moreton Bay {Biggies), 2 $, type niiida, Sydney (Biggies, Scott, MutJiew), 3 d", 9 $ , type tenebrosa; Victoria, Gisborne (Lyell), 1 S, Mel- bourne (Lucas), 1 5 ; S. Australia (Bakewell), 1 $ ; Tasmania, 2 $ . Exp. 40-50 millim. 646. Agrotis ypsilon. Noctua ypsilon, Eott. Naturf. ix. p. 141 (177')); T)riice, Biol. Centr-Am., Het. 1. p. 281 ; Hmpsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 182; Smith, Gat. Noefc. N. Am. p. 66 ; Staud. Cat. pal. p. 1.^1. Isoctiia suffusa, Sohiff. Wien. Verz. p. 80(1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 157; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. pi. 147. f. 6; Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 109. f. 34. FJialcBiia idonea, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 275 H (1782). Bomhyx spiniUa, Esp. Schmett. iii. pi. 63. if. 6, 7 (1782). Noctiia robusta, Blanch. Gay's Ciiile, p. 75, pi. 6. f. 9 (1852). Agrotis bipars, Wlk. x. 334 (1856). Agrotis frivola, Wllgrn. Wien. ent. Mon. iv. p. 169 (1860). Agrotis suffusa, var. x^'^poli, Bert. Bull. Ent. Ital. vi. pp. 139-146, pi. iii. Agrotis aureolum, Schaus,
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