I'Axor.is. 461 



Genus PANOLIS. ^ 



Type. 

 TanoUs, Hiibn. Verz> p. 214 (1827) flammea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi sborf, ]ion-eet, clothed with long bair ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes small, reniform, not ciHated ; antennse of male serrate and 

 fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with iiair ouly and without distinct crests; 

 tibiie fringed with long hair; abdomen clothed with rough hair, with dorsal 

 crest at b:ise and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex rounded, 

 the teruien obliquely curved ; veins '6 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle; 'J from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins o, 4 from angle ot cell ; o obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or froiu angle ; 8 anastomosing with the 

 cell near base only. 



1807. Paiiolis flammea. 



Noctua flammea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 87 (1776); Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. 



f. 476. 

 Kociiia griscovariegata, Goeze, Beitr. iv. p. 2.50 (1781); Staud. Cat. Lap. 



pal. p. 202. 

 Noctua piniperda, Loschge, Naturf. xxi. p. 27, pi. ii. (1785) ; Panz. Kob. 



pi. 1. ff. 11, 12 (1786); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 125. ff. 1-6; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vi. p. 486, pi. 100. ff. 2, 3; Steph. HI. Brit. Ent., Hanst. iii. p. 19. 

 Noctua telifera, Payk. Vet.-Akad. Stock, xlviii. p. 60, pl. 2. ff. 2, 3 (1786). 

 Bombijx fprda, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 124 (1787); Curt. Brit. Ent. v. 



pl.'ll7. 

 Noctua pini, Vill. Ent. ii. p. 278 (1789). 

 Noctua ochrolcuca, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 91 (1827). 



Head and thorax rufous more or less mixed with white ; the 

 tegulte and patagia edged with white ; tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen brown, more or less grey towards base. Fore wing bright 



V\g. \o^ —Panoli>!flaih7nca, S. \. 



or deep rufous, more or less strongly suffused with grey or white ; 

 the veins white and brown ; subbasal lino represented by slight 

 white marks below costa and in cell ; antemedial line indistinct ; 

 oblicjue, waved, rufous dchncd by white on inner side ; claviforra 

 with its extremity indicated by a white and brown point ; orbicular 

 and reniform white, often with pale rufous centres, the former 

 small, more or less elongate elliptical, and often with its lower 

 edge produced to a streak on median nervure, sometimes connected 

 with the reniform, which is large and has its upper angle produced ; 

 postmedial line defined by white on outer side, dentate, bent out- 

 wards below costa, excurvcd to vein 4, then incurved ; subterminal 

 line represented by a series of more or less indistinct dentate rufous 

 marks, angled outwards below veins 7 and 4 to tornus, the area 

 beyond it sometimes whitish with dark streaks on the extremity of 

 veins ; cilia rufous intersected with wliite. Hind M'ing fuscous 



