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indistinct dusky or prominently black with black points round its edge ; 

 an indistinct dentate medial line from cell to inn<;r margin often with an 

 oblique shade on its inner edge to the antemedial line at inner margin ; the 

 postmedial line indistinct, dentate, with black points on the veins at extremity 

 of teeth, bent outwards below costa, angled inwards above vein 5 and incurved 

 below vein 3 ; a brown band between the postmedial and subterminal lines 

 below vein 3 extending to the medial line ; the subterminal line pale with dark 

 mark on its inner side at costa, and points on the veins, slightly angled outward;* 

 at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal series of black points or spots. 

 Hindwing ochreous white ; the inner and costal areas suffused with black ; 

 a large black discoidal spot ; the terminal area black, its inner edge angled 

 outwards at veins 4 and 1 and incurved between those points ; a bidentate 

 pale subcostal patch between veins 2 and 4 ; cilia white with fuscous line 

 at base towards apex. Underside whitish ; forewing with the basal half 

 of inner area, the orbicular, reniform and postmedial band black ; hindwing 

 with the markings of underside showing indistinctly through. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Canaries ; Syria ; E. Turkistan ; Amurland : Japan r 

 China ; Punjab, Hunza, Kashmir, Sinde Valley, Dras. Exp. 26-38. mill. 



1602. Chloridea pelltigera. 



1603. Chloridea nubigera. 



1601. Chloridea obsoleta, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 3.1, p. 450 (1793). 



Noctua armigera, Hi'ibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett, Noct., f. 370 (1827). 

 Heliothis pitherosa, Wlk., xi, 688 (1857). 

 conferta, Wlk., xi, 690 (1857J. 

 Thalpophilarubrescens, Wlk., xv, 1082 (1858). 

 Heliothis uniformis, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon, iv, p, 171 (1800). 

 „ punctigera, Wllgrn. Wieu Ent. Mon, iv, p. 171 (1800). 

 umbrosus, Grote. Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil , i, p. 219 (1803). 

 1601. b Chloridea assulta, Guen. Noct. II, p. 178 (1852). 

 Heliothis temperata, Wlk, xi, 089 (1857). 

 separata, Wlk, xi, 091 (1857). 

 succinea, Moore, P. Z. S., 1881, p. 362. 

 Head and thorax orange tinged with red-brown ; fore tibiae brown above : 

 abdomen orange ; forewing orange tinged with red-brown, the veins rufous ; a 

 double curved sub-basal line from costa to submedian fold ; the antemediai 

 line double, strongly waved, the inner line indistinct ; orbicular and reniform 

 with dark centres and brown outlines, the former round ; the medial line 

 oblique from costa to median nervure where it is angled, then incurved ; the 

 postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved at discal 

 fold, incurved below vein 4 and with its inner line minutely waved and slightly 

 angled outwards at vein 1, the area beyond it brownish to the subterminal line 

 which is angled outwards at vein 7, dentate inwards to the postmedial line 

 at veins and outwards to termen at veins 4.3.2 ; cilia rufous. Hindwing orange- 

 yellow ; the terminal area broadly black with somewhat sinuous inner edge 



