CRANIOPHORA. 0/ 



3633. Craniophora ligustri. 



Noctua ligustri, SoliifF. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 172 (1787) ; Esp. Scbmett. iv. pi. 119. ff. 1-4; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f, 21 ; Diip. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 2.%, pi. 89. f. 1 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 142 ; 



Steph. 111. Brit. Eut., Haust. iii. p. 38 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 134. 

 JSoctualitterata, Panz.Syst.Nom. SchaiF. Ins. p. 115, pi. 105. ff. 3, 4 (1804). 

 Noctua coronula. Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 179 (1809). 

 Acronycta sundcDalli, Lampa, Ent. Tidskr. 1885, p. 50. 

 Acronycta olivacea, Tutt, Entom. lySB, p. 81 ; Ter. Haar. Tijds. xlii. p. 97, 



pl.SA. f. 1. 

 Acronycta nigra, Tutt, Ent. Ree. i. p. 34 (1890). 



Head white mixed with some black-brown ; palpi black-brown 

 except at tips ; frons with brown bars above and between antennae, 

 which are brown ; thorax black-brown, the tegulse with the basal 

 half mostly white with black medial line and white dorsal streak, 

 the patagia and vertex of thorax with white patches ; pectus and 

 legs brown mixed with brownish white, the tarsi brown ringed 

 with white ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown, the crests 

 dark. Fore wing dark reddish brown with whitish patches from end 

 of cell to postmedial line and on termen at apex and just below 

 middle ; subbasal line represented by double black strise from costa 



Fig. 16. — CraniojpTioraligu&tri, <^ . \. 



with bar beyond it in cell and single striga from cell with short 

 streak beyond its lower extremity ; antemedial line double, waved, 

 oblique, strongly incurved at vein 1 and excurved above inner 

 margin; orbicular with white annulus defined by black, round; 

 reniform large, defined by black with slight white line on inner 

 edge and strong lunule on outer ; medial line a black bar from 

 costa to orbicular and sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line double filled in with white from below costa to 

 vein 3, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved at discal 

 fold and bent inwards at vein 3 to below end of cell, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by white 

 lutiules from costa to vein 7 and a white mark angled inwards at 

 vein 2 with dentate black mark above it ; a terminal series of small 

 black spots with white lunules on their inner side ; cilia chequered 

 white and brown. Hind wing white tinged with reddish Ijrown 

 especially on the veins and inner area, in female more uniformly 

 suffused with brown ; cilia chequered white and reddish brown ; 

 the underside white faintly tinged with brown, the costal area 



