398 NOCTUIDJE. 



h. Fore wing without black streiik below base of cell. 



a^. Fore wing with the ante- and postinedinl lines con- 

 joined by a black streak in submedian fold bella. 



6'. Fore wing with the ante- and postinedial lines not 



conjoined bv a black streak altcrnans. 



B. Fore wing with the reniforni angled inwards on median 

 nervure and confluent with orbicular. 



a. Fore winj," bluish white pat alia. 



b. Fore wing greyish white sull'used in partB with brown... noryna. 



c. Fore wing oclireous whitish. 



rt'. Fore wing with bi-own patch on termen above tornns. nataknsis. 

 h\ Fore wing without brown patch on termen above 



tornus v-alhum. 



1716. Xylomania conspicillaris. 



Nocfiia conspicillaris, Linn. Syst. Xat. x. ]). 515 (1758) ; E^p. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 134. ff. 4-6 ; Hiibn. Saminl. Fur. Schmelt., Noct. fl". 2:56, 2.'37 ; Stei)h. 



111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 10'.*: Dup. Lup. Fr. vii. p. 149, pi. 110. 



ff. 3, 4 ; Stand. Cat. T.ep. pal. p. 212. 

 Nociiia musicalis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 147. f. 5 (1777). 

 Noctua 77ielaleitca,Yi&w.Tab. Verz. p. 68, pi. i. f. 5 (1789) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pi. 112. f. 6. 



Head and thorax bluish grey mixed with dark brown ; frons 

 with black bar ; tegulse with black medial line ; thoracic crests 

 black ; tibise black with pale rings ; abdomen grey irrorated with 

 brown. Fore wing bluish grey irrorated with brown, the basal and 

 costal areas suffused with reddish brown ; the veins streaked with 

 black ; a black streak below base of cell ; subbasal line represented 

 by an oblique black striga from costa ; antemedial line indistinct, 

 strongly dentate ; claviform defined by black ; orbicular and reni- 

 form large, rounded, incompletely defined by black, the latter with 



Fig. 107. — Xylomania conspicillaris, (^ . \. 



black mark in its lower part ; an oblique broAvn line from lower 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line represented by a 

 double series of black points on the veins, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some Avhite points beyond 

 it on costa ; subterminal line only defined by the area beyond it 

 being suff'used ^^ith rufous, running obliquely from apex and dentate 

 on veins 3, 4, 2, 1 ; cilia red-brown intersected with white. Hind 

 wing white ; the veins brown, the apex tinged with brown ; a ter- 

 minal series of brown strias ; the underside with the costal area 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and postmedial series 

 of stria) on the veins. 



Ab. 1. mekdeuca. Fore wing black except inner area, which is 

 grev or ochreous white. 



