334 



NOCTUIB-*. 



Sect. I. Antenna; of male bipoctinate with short branches, the apex serrale. 



4770. Oria myodea. 



Sy)iia myodea, Rmbr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. G. f. 3 (1858); Stand. Cat. Lep. 

 pal. p. IS'.t. 



Head and thorax white tinged with pale rufous; abdomen white 

 tinged with oehreous brown. Fore wing ])ale ochreous brown, the 

 veins with darker streaks, especially the median nervure ; an 

 elongate whitish streak in submedian fold representing the clavi- 

 form, denned on medial area below and at extremity, where it is 



Fig. 149. — Oria wyodea, J. \. 



bent up to vein 2, by black scales; a whitish streak in discal fold 

 beyond the cell, narrowing towards tertnen ; cilia with fine whitish 

 line at base and white tips towards tornus. Hind wing white 

 tinged with ochreous brown, the veins with darker streaks ; cilia 

 white. 



Hah. Spain, Andalusia, Cadiz; Morocco, Tangier [Leech), 1 cf, 

 1 2 ■ ^>iJ. 32-36 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennie of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing ochreous with whitish fasciie in discal and sub- 



median folds miisculosa. 



B. Fore wing yellow, the costal area tinged wi!h ))ink flavesceiis. 



4771. Oria musculosa. 



Noctua vtu^culosa, Hiibn. Enr. Schmett., IS'oct. f. 363 ('SO'"^) ; Dup. Lep. 



Fr. vii. pt. 1, p. 341, pi. 1-20. f. G; Herr.-Schiiff. Eur. Schmett., Koct. 



f. 392; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 189. 

 Noctua nervosa, Haw. Lep. Erit. p. 176 (1809), nee Fabr. ; Steph. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. iii. p. 82. 

 Leucania flava, Frr. xVeue Schmett. iv. p. 142, pi. 370. f. 2 (1846). 

 Tapiiiostolafrumentalis. Lindeuiann, Bull. Mosc. 1883, i. p. 14.0. 

 Tapinosfolal<Bta, Alph. Rom. Mem. v. p. 165 (1889). 



Head and thorax white, the latter tinged with ochreous ; 

 abdomen white faintly tinged with ochreous. Fore Aving pale 

 reddish ochreous ; the costal edge white ; a slight whitish streak 

 in base of cell ; a curved white fascia in submedian interspace ; a 

 white fascia in discal fold from end of cell to near termen towards 

 which it narrows and with oblii^uely placed white marks from its 

 extremity to termen below apex above veins 6 and 7 ; the inter- 

 spaces between veins 6 and 2 with wedge-shaped terminal white 



