23S 



XOCTCII)-B. 



Larva. Mi-yr. IJrit. Ix-p. p. r>S ■ Tlarn-tf. L.-p. Brit. ir. p. 282, pi. 1G7. f. 1. 



Y.'ll()\v-}:rei-i), dur>!illy HuH'iisi'il with reddish ; dcrsul line palo 

 roddisli ninrkcd with V-slinped black spots; a subdorsal series of 

 Mack marks, .spiraciilar lino palo Yellowish ; head {rrcenish speckled 

 with hrown. Food-plants: Grasses, CicJiorium. lU-4. 



SitCT. IV. AnUMinn; of iimlc sorrnto nnd fu.scicuhite, 



A. Fitri> will}; black tinned with purplish groy iiiffra. 



13. Fore wing bluok niiied with durk bruwn haati. 



23S7. Aporophyla nigra. 



yoctua nii/ra, Ilaw. Lep. lint. p. 1112 i,lS(l'J; ; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent., Ilaust. 



ii. p. li<>, pi. 20. f. I ; Stiiud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 

 2^'octita athiopa, Oi-hs. Sclimctf. Eur. iv. p.()7 (ISK'i) ; (ieyer, Eur. Sclimett., 



Xoct. f. 8G1 ; Err. >'cue Heifr. ii. pi. 147. f. 2 k iii. pi. 221. 

 2io<-tHa nigricans, Ilubii. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 5^8 (1827) ; Geyer, Eur. 



8cbraett., Noct. ff. 8.')9-nO. 

 Aporophyla seileri, Fucbs, Stett. ent. Zeit. lii. p. 128 (1901). 



Head and thorax black with a purplish-grey gloss; tegul.-e with 

 black medial line; tarsi ringed with white; abdomen fuscous 

 brown tinged with grey and with some whitish hair at base. Fore 

 wing black sutl'uscd with purplish grey and slightly irroratcd with 

 white, chicHy on the veins which are slightly darker; a double 

 dentate subbasal line from costa to subracdian fold; a double 

 waved antenu'dial line ; claviforra moderate, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black ; the former oblique 

 elliptical, the latter with more or less developed ochreous points on 

 its outer edge; an irregularly waved indistinct medial liiie oblique 



Fig. 77. — Aporophyla nigra, J . 



from costa to lower angle of cell ; postmedial line double, the outer 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oxeurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line formed by a scries of 

 obscure dentate dark marks with a few ochreous scales on their 

 outer edges, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia with slight whitish line 

 through them. Hind wing white, the veins and inner margin 

 suffused with brown, the terminal area irrorated with brown ; a line 

 dark terminal line ; cilia brown, whitish at tips, of female brown 

 with some white in, below, and beyond cell ; underside with tho 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial 

 series of short streaks on the veins. 



