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NOCTUID^, 



brown, the tibite reddish ; alidomcn dark brown, the anal tuft 

 ochreous. Fore ■vrinc deep glossy chestnut-red, the inner medial 

 area suft'used with dark brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; 

 subbasal line represented bv a faint dark striga trom costa ; ante- 

 medial line very indistinct, single, dark, oblique, somewhat dentate, 

 angled inwards on vein 1 and lo inner margin : claviform and 

 orbicular absent ; rcniform represented by a small faint greyish 

 spot ; medial line very indistinct, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure, then inwardly oblique ; postraedial line very indistinct, 

 dark, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, oblique below vein 4, 

 the costa beyond it blackish with pale points ; the postmedial line 

 verj- slightly darker ; subterminal line greyish slightly defined on 

 inner side by a punotiform brown line, very slightly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and excurved at middle : a slightly waved brown 

 terminal line : cilia rufous with a slight pale line at base. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown with a slight reddish tinge, the veins slightly 

 darker ; cilia pole rufous ; the 'underside greyish tinged with red 

 and irrorated with brown, a slight dark discoidal lunule and sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hah. S. Fraxce, in Coll. Piingeler; Spain, Andalusia: Italy; 

 Algeria. Exp. 34 millim. 



2G9o. Amathes lota. 



Noctiia loia. Linn. Svst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758): Clerck, Icones, pi. 8. 



f. 1 (1759): Esp. ■Sclimett. iii. pi. (h. f. 1 : Sepp. Ins. iii. pi. 38; Frr. 



Beitr. pi. Ill; Diip. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 208, pi. 27. f. 4; Steph. 



111. Brit. Ent., Hau.st. ii. p. 147 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 206. 

 Ncctua hippophaes, Rossi, ]Mant. ii. p. 281 (1794). 

 JS'octua munda, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 167 (1827). 



Head and thorax grey-brown : sides of palpi and frons black ; 

 antenna) whitish at base ; tarsi fuscous with pale rings ; abdomen 

 grey tinged with rufous. Fore wing grey-brown ; subbasal line 

 represented by slight black points below costa and cell ; antemedial 



Fig. 163. — Amathes lota, (^ . 



line indistinct, oblique, waved, with double series of slight black 

 points before it on the veins : orbicular and reniform with grey 

 annuli, the former oblique elliptical, the latter oblique oblong, its 

 lower part filled in with black ; a fuscous medial shade ; postmedial 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa then minutely waved, 

 incurved below vein 4, with double series of slight black ])oints 

 beyond it with whitish points between them on the veins and some 



