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NOCTUIDiE. 



b. Fore wing without black streak below base of cell. 



a\ Fore wing witii tiie ante- aud postmedial Hues con- 

 joined by a black streak in subniedian fold bel/ci. 



i'. Fore wing with the ante- and posttnedial lines not 



conjoined bv a black streak aUernavsf. 



B. Fore wing with the renifonn angled inwards on median 

 ncrviire and confluent with orbicular. 



a. Fore wing bluish white paialh. 



b. Fore wing greyish white suffused in parts with brown ... norma. 



c. Fore wing ochreous whitish. 



rt^ Fore wing with brown patch on termen above tornus. natalmsis. 

 b^. Fore wing without brown patch on termen above 



tornus v-alhum. 



1716. Xylomania conspicillaris. 



Koctua conspicillariR, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 615 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 134. ff. 4-6 ; Hiibn. Saniml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. fif. 236, 237 ; Steph. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 1G9; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 149, pi. 110. 



ff. 3, 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 212. 

 Noctua musicalis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 147. f. 5 (1777). 

 Noctua mekdeuca, View. T[ib. Verz. p. 68, pi. i.f. 5(1789): Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pi. 112. f. 6. 



Head and thorax bluish grey mixed with dark brown ; frous 

 with black bar ; tegulse with black medial line ; thoracic crests 

 black ; tibiae black with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing bluish grey irrorated with brown, the basal and 

 costal areas suflt'used with reddish brown ; the veins streaked with 

 black ; a black streak below base of cell; subbasal line represented 

 by an oblique black striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 strongly dentate ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form large, rounded, incompletely defined by black, the latter with 



Fig. 107. — XylomaJiia conspicillaris, (^. }. 



black mark in its lower part ; an oblique brown line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line represented by a 

 double series of black points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it 

 being suffused with rufous, running obliquely from apex and dentate 

 on veins 3, 4, 2, 1 ; cilia red-brown intersected with white. Hind 

 wing white ; the veins brown, the apex tinged with brown ; a ter- 

 minal scries of brown stria; ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and postmedial series 

 of striae on the veins. 



Ab. 1. melaleuca. Fore wing black except iuner area, which is 

 grey or ochreous white. 



