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brown irrorated with grey ; cilia whitish, with a brown line tlirough 

 them ; the underside grey thickly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Hab. S. llussrA, Sarepta, in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 46 millim. 



1233. Folia luteago. 



Nocfua luteago, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 8() (1777) ; Hiibn. Samnil. Eur. 



Sclimett., Noct. f. 184 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 24(>, pi. 23. ff. 3, 4 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 

 Noctua brunneago, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 106. ff. 2, .3 (1796). 

 Kodua argillacea, Hiibn. Sainml. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. .590 (1827). 

 Noctuo^ olhicna, Geyer, Satuml. Eur. Scbiuett., Noct. ff. 829, 830 (1834). 

 Dianfh(ecia harrdtii, H. Doubl. Ent. Ann. 1864, p. 124, f. 3. 

 Diantha-cia andalusica, Staud. Stelt. ent. Zeit. 1859, ji. 214 ; Eamb. Cat. 



Lep. S. And. pi. xi. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with fulvous ; abdomen fulvous 

 yellow. Fore wing yellow, suffused in part with fulvous, especially 

 on costal and medial areas; subbasal line pale, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold; antemedial line double, waved, the inner line 





Fig. 22.— Folia luteago, c? . \. 



indistinct ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by rufous, 

 with more or less distinct pale dentate patch beyond it below the 

 cell ; orbicular and reniforra well-developed, yellow defined by 

 rufous and with slight brownish centres, the former rounded ; an 

 indistinct waved medial line; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4 ; 

 some pale points on costa beyond it; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area 

 beyoud it rather darker except at apex ; a terminal series of small 

 dark luruiles ; cilia chequered brown and ochreous. Hind wing 

 yellow suft'used with fuscous brown ; the underside yellow irrorated 

 with brown ; a discoidal lunule and ctirved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. arf/i.llacea. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown 

 mixed with grey ; fore wing grey suffused with dark brown, 

 especially on medial area ; the markings black ; a black mark below 

 base of cell bisected by the subbasal line ; claviform connected 

 with postmedial line by a dark streak ; orbicular, rcniform, and a 



