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cilia blackishi brown with yellow patches below apex and middle. 

 Hind wing orange-yollow, the base and inner margin brown ; a 

 rather broad black terminal band with slightly waved inner edge ; 

 cilia black at base, yellow at tips. Underside of fore wing orange, 

 the costal area, the area from cell to submedian fold, the lower 

 end of cell, a discoidal bar and the terminal area to submedian fold 

 suffused with black ; hind wing irrorated Avith a few black scales, 

 a small discoidal spot and the terminal area tinged with blackish. 

 Hah. Sicily, 1 S type ; Balkan States. Exp. 24 millira. 



4977. Panemeria tenehrata. 



Phalava tenebrata, Scop. Ent. Carn. p. 230 (17(53) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 220. 

 Koctua arhuti, Fabr. Svst. Ent. p. 619 (1775) ; Don. Brit. Ins. x. p. 47, 



pi. 343. f. 3. 

 Noctua heliaca, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 94 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., 



Noct. f. 316; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. i. p. 293, pi. 118. f. 4; Frr. 



Beitr. pi. 119. 

 Koctua doinestica. Kuhn, Naturf. iii. pi. 1. f. 8 (1774) & ix. p. 136 (1776). 

 Noctua policula, Lang, Verz. Schniett. p. 159 (1789). 

 Noctua fasciola, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 163. f. 1 (1791). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown mixed with some grey ; 

 antennae ringed with white ; palpi, lower part of frons, pectus and 

 legs mostly yellowish, the tarsi yellowish ringed with brown ; 

 ventral surface of abdomen yellowish. Fore wing cupreous brown 

 suffused with greyish : an indistinct curved brown antemedial line; 

 a strong blackish medial line angled outwards below costa, on 

 median nervure and vein 1, and inwards in cell and submedian fold ; 

 reniform represented by a faint whitish lunule ; postmedial line 

 indistinct, brown defined by whitish on outer side, oblique from 

 costa to vein 6, slightly angled inwards at discal fold and incurved 



Fig. 233. — Panemeria tenebrata, J. %. 



below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, whitish, excurved below vein 7 and at middle; a 

 slight blackish terminal line ; cilia dark brown at base, white at 

 tips, with brown marks at apex, middle and tornus. Hind wing 

 black-brown with a cupreous tinge ; a yellow medial band from 

 below costa where it is broad, narrowing to vein 1, its edges some- 

 what irregular ; cilia brown at base, white at tips. Underside 

 of fore wing brown with white suffusion on costal area to middle, 

 on inner and terminal areas, a yellowish white postmedial curved 



