194 X0CTUIDJ5. 



b^. Fore wing with white patch on medial area. 



a^. Fore wing witli the wfiite patch not extending 

 below submedian fold. 

 a*. Fore wing olive-brown not suffused with 



fuscous albimacula. 



h*. Fore wing olive-brown suffused with fuscous . . . conspersa. 

 h^. Fore wing with the white patch extending to inner 

 margin. 

 a*. Fore wing with the claviform large, forming 



part of the dark area compta. 



6*. Fore wing with the claviform absent guenei. 



1406. Polia cucubali. 



Koctua cucubali, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 84 (1776); Esp. Schraett. iv. 



pi. 173. f. 6; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 56; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 331, pi. 93. f. 5 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 187 ; Curt. Brit. 



Ent. p. 308; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 163. 

 Noctua rivularis, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 234 (1781). 

 Nochia rivosa, Strom. Dansk. Vid. Selsk. Skr. p. 77 (1783). 

 Noctua behensis, Frr. Beitr. v. p. 142, ^\. 467. f. 4 (1831). 

 Dianthxeia mandarina, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1900, p. 51. 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with purple, grey, and dark 

 scales; tarsi with pale rings; abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing 

 red-brown, irrorated with fuscous and suffused with violaceous 

 especially near the lines ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to 



mm ^s=^ ^^ 



Fig. 26. — Volia cucubali, ? . } . 



submedian fold ; antemedial line double, waved ; claviform large, 

 suffused with and defined by black : orbicular and reniform with 

 brown centres and yellow annuli defined by black, the former 

 oblique elliptical, usually conjoined to the latter, which is more or 

 less angled inwards on median nervure; an indistinct waved medial 

 line ; postmedial line double, the inner crenulate, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line yellow, defined on 

 inner side by diffused blackish, somewhat dentate marks and some 

 difli'used black on outer, angled outwards at vein 7, dentate at 

 veins 4, 3, and excurved to tornus ; a terminal series of small blaclc 

 lunules. Hind wing pale, suffused with reddish brown especially 

 on terminal area and in female; the underside pale irrorated with 

 red-brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial and sub- 

 terminal lines. 



Ab. 1. mandarina. Darker, browner, and without the violaceous 

 iinge; the annuli of stigmata and subterminal line whiter. — Japan, 

 China. 



