264 LEPIDOl'TERA. 



1. N. hybridalis, Huh.\ noctuella, Stand. Cat. — Ex- 

 panse 1 to 1 J inch. Fore winj^s long and very narrow, but 

 not pointed ; pale grey-brown with very large black-brown 

 stigmata ; hind wings ample, smoky brown. 



Antennaj of the male simple, shining brown; palpi short, 

 triangular, reddish-brown, paler inside ; head and thorax 

 •dull brown ; abdomen dull grey-brown or mouse-colour. 

 Fore wings very narrow ; costa straight for two-thirds of its 

 length, thence arched, and the apex almost rounded ; hind 

 margin short, rather oblique and very little curved ; dorsal 

 margin gracefully undulating ; colour pale umbreous or 

 grey-brown, very dull ; transverse lines darker brown, 

 usually scarcely perceptible, the first erect, much angulated, 

 throwing out a darker streak at the discal cell, second in- 

 complete, toothed, and curved ; subterminal line indicated by 

 a series of faint hollowed clouds of brown dusting ; the only 

 conspicuous markings are the very large stigmata, the orbicular 

 is duplicated, forming two black-brown rings which lie across 

 the wing, the reniform also large, brown with a black 

 edging, and extended by a lai'ge similar cloudy spot below ; 

 costa beyond the middle dotted with dark-brown ; hind 

 margin edged with minute black-brown crescents ; cilia pale 

 umbreous. Hind wings very large and broad ; the apex 

 bluntly rounded ; the hind margin also broadly rounded, but 

 the anal angle prominent; unicolorous smoky-brown; cilia 

 paler. Female similar, but the two large stigmata often 

 •even larger and more strongly marked. 



Underside of the fore wings very pale smoky-brown ; costa 

 more yellow-brown, and having several brown dots in its 

 sub-apical area ; discal spot small, smoky brown. Hind 

 wings pale smoky brown, shining with a golden gloss. 

 Body yellow-drab. Legs pale brown. 



Variable, as already suggested, in the depth of the mark- 

 ings—which in some specimens are almost imperceptible — 

 also in the ground colour, from grey-brown to pale 

 drab. 



