At-OROPHTLA. 235 



darter. Fore wing fuscous irrorated with white and suffused with 

 bluish grey ; subbasal line represented by black stria? from costa 

 and cell ; a slight black mark above inner margin near base ; sub- 

 basal line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer formed of 

 black striae, curved ; claviform minute, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform with \\iiite annuli defined by black, the former 

 rouuded, the latter with black striga in centre and slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervurc ; an indistinct waved medial line, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line double, the 



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"Fig. 74. — Aporaphi/la mioleuca, (J . \. 



outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, closely approximated to the reniform, oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black lunules ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 very ill-defined subterminal diffused band tinged with fuscous ; a 

 fine waved terminal line from apex to vein 2 ; the underside 

 irrorated witli brown, a discoidal point and indistinct minutely 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Hab. Spain, Madrid, 1 d" , Granada (A. H. Jones), Id;? Italy ; 

 Sicily ; Algeria. Exj:). 34 millim. 



Sect. II. Anteiuire of male bipectinafe with rather long branches to near 

 apex. 



2385. Aporophyla lutuleiita. 



Kocfualuiuicvta, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 81 (ITTfi): Borkh. Eur. Schniett. 



iv. p. 576 (1792); Dup. Lep. Fr. v. p. 269, pi. 71. ff. 1, 2 ; Hiibn. Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. 1". 159 ; Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schraett., Noct. ff. 83, 405; 



Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 

 Noctiia clcctrica, Fabr. Eiit. Syst. iii. 2, p. 46 (1793). 

 Noctuafnsca, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 204 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



ii. p. 109. 

 Nodua orthostiqma, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent.. Haust. ii. p. 110 (1829). 

 I^^ociua comimtlis. Staph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 110 (1829).' 

 Polta scdi, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 196, pi. 18. f. 1 (1836). 

 Noctua tripu'iicfa. Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 501. f. 3 (1848). 

 JS'ortita lunehurgeiisis, Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 626. f. 2 (1848) ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Schmett,, Noct. ff. 428-430. 

 Aporo2)hyla 'pallida, Calb. Iris, i. p. 237 (1884). 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; pectus with 



