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cilia blackish brown with yellow patches below apex and middle. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow, the base and inner margin brown ; a 

 rather broad black terminal band with slightly waved inner edge ; 

 eilia black at base, yellow at tips. Underside of fore wing orange. 

 the costal area, the area from cell to submedian fold, the lower 

 end of cell, a discoidal bar and the terminal area to submedian fold 

 suffused with black ; hind wing irrorated with a few black scab's. 

 a small discoidal spot and the terminal area tinged with blackish. 

 Hah. Sicily. 1 $ type; Balkan States. Exp. 24 millim. 



4977, Panemeria tenebrata. 



Phalcpva tenebrata. Scop. Ent. Cam. p. 230 (1753) ; Stand. Cat. Lop. pal. 



p. 220. 

 Xoctua arhuti, Fabr. Svst. Ent. p. 019(177o); Don. Brit. Ins. x. p. 47. 



pi. 343. F. 3. 

 Xoctua keliaca, Sohiff. Wien. Verz. p. 94 (177^: ffubrt. Em-. ScbmetU, 



Noct. f. 310; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. i. p. 293, pi. 118. f. 4; Fit. 



Beitr.pl. 119. 

 Noctua domestica, Kuhn, Naturf. iii. pi. 1. f. S (1774) & is. p. 130 (177<>). 

 Xoctua policula, Lang, Vera. Schmett. p. 159 (1789). 

 Xoctua fasciola, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 103. f. 1 (1791). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with some grey ; 

 antenna? ringed with white ; palpi, lower part of frons, pectus and 

 legs mostly yellowish, the tarsi yellowish ringed with brown ; 

 ventral surface of abdomen yellowish. Fore wing cupreous brown 

 suffused with greyish : an indistinct curved brown antemedial line; 

 a strong blackish medial line angled outwards below costa. on 

 median nervure and vein 1. and inwards in cell and submedian fold ; 

 reniform represented by a faint whitish lunule ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, brown defined by whitish on outer side, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and incurved 



Fig. 233. — Panemeria tenebrata, J. |, 



below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subtermiual 

 line indistinct, whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a 

 slight blackish terminal line ; cilia dark brown at base, white at 

 tips, with brown marks at apex, middle and tornus. Hind wing 

 black-brown with a cupreous tinge ; a yellow medial band from 

 below costa where it is broad, narrowing to vein 1, its edges some- 

 what irregular ; cilia brown at base, white at tips. Underside 

 of fore wing brown with white suffusion on costal area to middle, 

 on inner and terminal areas, a yellowish white postmedial curved 



