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NOCTUID.S;. 



Sect. II. (Melicleptria). Fore wing-of niak normal. 



167. Melicleptria scutosa. 



Koctua scutosa, Sebiff. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (ITTB); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 142 (1787); Esp. Scbmett- pi. 108. ft'. 1, 2; Hiibn. Scbmett. Eur. 



Noct. f. 309 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f. 1 ; Hnipsn. Moths Ind. ii. 



p. 175; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221 ; Smith. Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 271. 

 Helioihis nnchalis., Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 68 (1878). 



Head and thorax clothed with greyish, olive, and dark brown 

 hair : pectus and legs whitish, the latter irrorated with dark 

 brown ; abdomen greyish irrorated with fuscous, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Fore wing ochreous whitish, the marginal areas tinged 

 with olive-brown and irrorated with fuscous ; a curved subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold ; a blackish streak below base of 

 vein 1 ; the antemedial line minutely dentate to median nervure, 

 then angled outwards to middle of wing below vein 1 : stigmata 

 olive-brown outlined with black, claviform large elliptical, orbicular 

 round, reniform large ; the postmedial line minutely waved, bent 

 outwards below costa, oblique to below vein 5, inwardly oblique to 

 vein 8, then more erect, a brown T)and with pale points on costa 

 between it and the whitish subterminal line, which is dentate 

 inwards below costa, ex curved at middle and has some blackish 



Fig. 33. — Melicleptria scutosa, cJ. \. 



points on its inner edge ; a terminal series of black and white 

 striae. Hind wing white, the veins streaked with brown ; a large 

 black discoidal lunula ; the postmedial line minutely waved, angled 

 outwards at discal fold ; the terminal area broadly black-brown, 

 its inner edge following the postmedial line and with two pale 

 subterminal spots at middle ; cilia white, with brown line at base. 

 Underside with the ground-colour white ; fore wing with the 

 orbicular, reniform, and claviform black. 



Fore tibiae with long claw on inner side and spine on outer. 



Hah. U.S.A., Kansas, 1 5 , type nuchalis, Montana, Colorado : 

 Europe, Central and Southern, Britain, France, Germany, Zeller 

 & Frey Colls., Spain, Italy, Sweden, Bulgaria (3Irs. Niclioll), 



1 5 ; Algiers : Arjienia ; C. Asia ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 2 2 ; 

 E. China, Wei-ha-Wei {Fletcher), '^ 5 , Shanghai (Pnjer), 1 2 : 

 Kashmir, Scind and Goorais Valleys, Dras, Kiris (Leech), 3 j, 



2 2 ; Ktjltj ((?. Young), 2 (5 , 2 $ ,'Rawal Pindi, 1 $ . E,tj3. 30- 

 38 millim. 



