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NOCTUIDiE. 



h". Fore wing with the upper subterminal 



black spot in submedian interspace short, nimhosa. 

 h*. Fore wing thickly irrorated with fuscous... mystica. 

 '■. Fore wing with the dorsum of thorax variegated 



with white. 

 a^. Fore wing with the white annulus of reniform 

 broken up into small spots, 

 «■*. F^ore wing with white annulus to reniform 

 on inner side; subterminalline notstrongly 



defined by black scotochlora. 



b*. Fore wing with the white annulus to reni- 

 form obscured by a black hniule on iuner 

 side ; subterminal line very strongly 



defined by black goliath. 



P. Fore wing with the white annulus of reniform 

 entire, 

 a'. Foi'e wing without white sjDOt beyond the 

 claviform. 

 a°. Fore wing with the orbicular moderate, 



with brown centre adjuncia. 



h^. Fore wing with the orbicular small, 



with white centre dilatata. 



6'. Fore wing with white spot beyond the 

 claviform. 

 a'. Fore wing without brown centre to 



orbicvdar variolata. 



b'. Fore wing with brown centre to orbicular, glaciata. 



1253. Polia peregrina. 



Hadena peregrina, Treitsch. Schmett. Eur. v. 1, p. 330 (1825) ; Frr. Beitr. 



Eur. Schmett. pi. 70. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. 

 Koctua bUnna, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 706 (1827). 

 Isocf.ua trimenda, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 789-791 (1827). 

 Noctua contribuUs, Bois. Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 357, pi. 122. f. 1 (1827). 

 Hadena salsolce, Embr. Ann. Soc. Obs. 1829, p. 258, pi. 6. f. 1. 



Head and thorax ochreous-white mixed with pale rufous ; tegular 

 with medial black line ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomeu ochreous 

 tinged with brown. Fore wing ochreous-white suffused with pale 

 reddish brown ; a slight black stieak below base of cell ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black striae filled in with whitish from 

 costa and cell, intersecting the black streak ; antemedial line 

 double filled in with whitish, waved, angled outwards in submedian 

 fold and inwards on vein 1 ; claviform large, incompletely defined 

 by black, a whitish patch beyond it on base of vein 2 often defined by 

 black below ; orbicular and reniform large, incompletely defined 

 by black, the former oblique elliptical ; postmedial line defined by 

 whitish on outer side, dentate, the veins beyond it slightly streaked 

 with black, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then 

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

 ochreous, with dentate black marks on its inner side at middle, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, dentate to termen at veins 4, 3, and 

 excurved to tornus, the area beyond it tinged with fuscous except 



