30 



N0CTUIDJ5, 



3603. Daseochseta alpium. 



Noctua liidifica, Sepp, lus. Ned. i. (4) p. 41, pi. 9. ff. 1-8 (1732), nee Limi. 

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



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

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



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

 Noctua orion, Esjj. Schmett. iv. pi. 118. ff. 4-7 (1787) ; Dnp. Lep. Fr. vi. 



p. 203, pi. 85. f. 5 ; Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. pi. 4B. f. 2 ; Curt. 



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

 Noctua runica, Grrnel. Ed. Syst. Nat. i. 5, p. 2561 (1788). 

 Moma onurrJiina, 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 ; antenn?e ringed black and white at base ; tegnlae 

 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 postmedial line, the costal 

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

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

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



Fig. 7. — J) aieochcBta alpium, (^ . \. 



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

 oblique black mark confluent with the lower edge of reniforra, 

 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 points 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 Aving whitish suffused with brown, the terminal 

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



