234 NOCIUIDJE. 



4609. Dicycla oo. 



ISomhyx oo, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 507 (17. r '8j ; Esp Sehmett. iii. pi. 71. 

 ff. 2-5 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 174. pi. 84. ff. 2, 3 ; Geyer, Eur. Scbmett., 

 Js'oct. f. 867; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 454 ; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. 

 iii. p. 59; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203. 



Noctua ferruginago, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f*. 195 (1802). 



Noctua renago. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 238 (1809). 



Dicycla sulphurea, Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 203 (1901). 



Dicycla griseago, Sclmltz, Soe. Ent. xxi. p. 3 (1907). 



Head and thorax very pale yellow, the vertex of head with a few 

 blackish scales and the thorax tinged with red-brown except in 

 front ; palpi with the 2nd joint red-brown at sides ; antennae red- 

 brown except at base ; pectus and legs with red-brown mixed ; 

 abdomen whitish slightly tinged with rufons except at base. Fore 

 wing very pale yellow irrorated with rufous, the veins streaked 



Fig. 94.— Dicycla oo, J. \. 



with rufous, the basal area suffused with rufous except at base of 

 costa, and the postmedial area tinged with rufous ; subbasal line 

 red-brown defined by yellow on outer side, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold ; antemedial line red-brown defined by yellow 

 on inner side, waved, excurved below costa, then oblique ; claviform 

 defined by red-brown, small, elliptical ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by red-brown, the former small, round, the latter rather 

 rounded with slight rufous lunule in centre ; medial line rather 

 diffused, red-brown, obliquely excurved to median nervure, then 

 oblique ; postmedial line red-brown defined by yellow on outer 

 side, oblique to vein 0, then very minutely waved, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved; subterminal line formed of small brown 

 lunules, slightly excurved below vein 7, then almost straight, 

 a brown mark beyond it above and below vein 5 ; a red-brown 

 terminal line ; cilia pale yelloAV intersected with red-brown. Hind 

 wing vellowish white, the veins faintly tinged with red-brown ; 

 a pale red-brown terminal line : cilia pale yellow ; the underside 

 with the costal area slightly yellower. 



Ab. 1. renaqo. Fore wing with the basal and postmedial areas 

 suffused with fuscous brown. 



Ab. 2. sulphurea. Fore wing nearly uniform pale yellow. 



Hah. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and 

 Leech Colls.; Austria; Hungary, Leech Coll.; Switzerland; 

 N.W. Spain (Chapman) ; Italy ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll. ; S. Scandi- 



