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3G03. Daseochaeta alpium. 



Noctua ludifica, Sepp, Ins. Ned. i. (4) p. 41, pi. 0. ff. 1-8 (1732), nee Linn. 

 Noctua aprilina, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1770) ; Sepp, Ins. Ned. iv. 



(corrigenda) ; Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 22 (nee Linn.). 

 Noctua alpium, Osbeck, Gutheb. Samml. Handl. (Wet. Afd.) i. p. 52, 



pi. 1. f. 2 (1778) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 130. 

 Noctua orion, Esp. Sehmett. iv. pi. 118. ff. 4-7 (1787) ; Lup. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 203, pi. 85. f. 5 ; Steph. 111. Erit. Ent., Haust. iii. pi. 4(1 f. 2 ; Curt. 



Brit. Ent. v. pi. 404 ; Err. Beitr. pi. 22. 

 Noctua runica, G-mel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2561 (1788). 

 Moina murrhina, Grses. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 314. 



Head and thorax emerald-green ; palpi black, the extremity of 

 2nd joint white, the 3rd joint white with black band ; sides of 

 irons black ; antenna? ringed black and white at base ; tegulae 

 black, white at base and white and green at tips ; patagia mostly 

 black at tips ; vertex of thorax with some black hair ; pectus and 

 legs white mixed with brown, the tarsi banded brown and white; 

 abdomen pale brown with white segmental rings, the crests black, 

 the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing emerald-green ; a white 

 fascia in submedian fold from base to post medial line, the costal 

 edge white; a subbasal black point on costa ; a black antemedial 

 band expanding into a patch on costa, slightly angled inwards in 

 cell and outwards on median nervine, angled inwards to base at 



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Fig. 7. — Dateochceta alpium, J. }-. 



vein 1, where it is interrupted; orbicular represented by a very 

 oblique black mark confluent with the lower edge of reniform, 

 which is represented by two black bars on a white patch, with 

 black patch from costa to inner bar with points before and beyond 

 it ; a medial black line from origin of vein 2 to inner margin, angled 

 outwards in submedian fold and forming a triangular mark on 

 vein 1 with oblique black striae before and beyond it across the 

 white fascia in submedian fold ; postmedial line strong, black, 

 defined on outer side by small rather wedge-shaped brownish 

 marks except towards costa, where it is dilated with two point3 on 

 it, excurved below vein 7 and at middle and incurved below vein 3 ; 

 a subterminal series of small white spots in the interspaces with 

 black lunules on their outer side and black patches before them at 

 middle and in submedian interspace ; cilia chequered white and 

 fuscous. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, the terminal 

 area slightly darker ; an indistinct dark discoidal lunule ; a white 



