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brown irrorated with grey ; cilia whitish, with a brown line through 

 them ; the underside grey thickly irrorated with brown, a slight 

 discoidal spot and sinuons postmedial line. 



Hob. S. RussrA, Sarepta, in Coll. Elwes. Exp. 46 millim. 



1233. Polia luteago. 



Noctua lufeago, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. SPi (1777) ; Hiibn. Saniml. Eur. 



Schmett., Noet. f. 184 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 246, pi. 23. ff. 3, 4 ; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 

 JVoctua brunneago, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 196. ff. 2, 3 (1796). 

 Js'octua argillacca, Hiibn. Saniml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 590 (1827). 

 Noctua olhiena, Geyer, Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 829, 830 (1834). 

 Bianthcecia barrcttii, H. Doubl. Ent. Ann. 1864, p. 124, f. 3. 

 Lianthixcia andalusica, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 214 ; Kamb. Cat. 



Lep. S. And. pi. si. f. 4 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 161. 



Head and thorax yellow mixed with fulvous ; abdomen fulvous 

 yellow. lore wing yellow, suffused in part with fulvous, especially 

 on costal and medial areas ; subbasal line pale, waved, from costa 

 to submedian fold; antemedial line doable, waved, the inner line 



Fig. 22. — Folia luteago, (^ . }-. 



indistinct ; claviform with its extremity slightly defined by rufous, 

 with more or less distinct pale dentate patch beyond it below the 

 cell ; orbicular and reniform well-developed, yellow defined by 

 rufous and with sliglit brownish centres, the former rounded ; au 

 indistinct waved medial line ; postmedial line indistinctly double, 

 dentate, bent outwards below costa and incurved below vein 4- ; 

 some pale points on costa beyond it; subterminal line indistinct, 

 pale, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at veins 4, 3, the area 

 beyond it rather darker except at apex ; a terminal series of small 

 dark lunules ; cilia chequered brown and ochreous. Hind wing 

 yellow suffused with fuscous brown ; the underside yellow irrorated 

 with brown ; a discoidal lunule and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. arf/iUacea. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown 

 mixed with grey ; fore wing grey suffused with dark brown, 

 especially on medial area ; the markings black ; a black mark below 

 base of cell bisected by the subbasal line ; claviform connected 

 with postmedial line by a dark streak ; orbicular, reniform, and a 



