ACTIJfOTIA. 123 



A. Hind wiug with large black cliscoidal lunule rcidiosa. 



B. Hind wing without black discoidal lunule. 



a. Fore wing reddish brown, with distinct white terminal ^- 



mark poli/odon. 



h. Fore wing grey, without distinct terminal ^-mark. 



a^. Fore wing witli the orbicular not connected with the 



renifbrm hyperici. 



^>\ Fore wing with the orbicular connected inferiorly with 



the reniform bv a curved mark coi/juncta. 



219. Actinotia radiosa. 



Noctua radiosa, Esp. Schuiett. iv. pi. 195. f. 3 (1786) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 234, pi. llfi. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 

 Koctua hjncca, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 434 (1827). 



Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with grey and black, some- 

 times nearl}- ail black ; pectus and legs clothed with olive-white 

 hair, the latter mixed wnth black : abdomen black with white seg- 

 mental lines, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale olive- 

 brown, the medial area suffused with red-brown, sometimes largel}- 

 suffused with black ; some subbasal white streaks from cell to inner 

 margin ; an indistinct anteraedial line strongly angled outwards 

 below cell and above inner margin ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform 

 narrow, with rufons or blackish centre with white line on it and 

 white annulus ; postmedial line indistinct, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 3 ; sitbterminal line whitish, 

 diffused towards term en as dentate marks on each side of veins, 

 between veins 2 and 5 forming a distinct ^-mark ; a series of small 

 dentate black spots just before termen and a fine terminal line; 

 cilia brown intersected with white. Hind wing black, the basal 

 and inner areas clothed wath grey hair ; a white patch beyond the 

 cell more or less completely defining the large black discoidal lunule 

 and crossed by the black veins ; cilia white. Underside whitish : 

 both wings with black discoidal spot, fascia below the cell and 

 postmedial liand emitting dentate marks towards termen on veins 

 3, 4 of fore wing and on hind wing dift'used over terminal area on 

 tornal half or wholly. 



Hah. JFraxce, Central and Southern : Geemaky : Hungary, Zeller 

 and Frey Colls.; Spaix ; Italy; Bulgaet.a (Mrs. SicJiolI), Id", 

 1 2 ', Russia, Urals; Aioiknia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. E,vp. 2S- 

 32 millim. 



220. Actinotia polyodon. 



riialcena poh/odon, Clerck, Icon. pi. 1'. f. 2 (17.39); Stand, Oat. Lep. pal. 



p. 183. 

 yuctua pcrspiciUari.<, h\n\\.Vvi\x\\. iiwet:. ]>. 317 (17(11); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 134. f. 3 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 249 : Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 149, pi. 110. f. 2. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; froiis and vertex of head banded 

 with grey ; tegulio grey, with two brown lines ; patagia and thorax 

 striped with grey ; pectus grey at sides ; legs streaked with grey 



