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NOCTDIDJK. 



7530. Lagoptera dotata. 



Noctm dotala, Fabr. Eut. Syst. iii. 3. p. 55 (1794) ; Iliiipsn. Moths Ind, 

 ii. p. 496. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; frons with white line above ; 

 antennae with the shaft white io front towards base ; pectus and 

 legs whitish tinged with brown, the tibiae and tarsi grey-brown ; 

 abdomen grey-brown, the ventral surface whitish, tinged with 

 brown towards extremity. Fore wing pale red-brown with slight 

 dark irroration, the postmedial area deeper red-brown, the terminal 

 area white irrorated with brown ; a slight sinuous brown subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold; antemedial lino red-brown 

 defined on outer side by whitish, slightly e:c curved below costa, 

 then very oblique ; a minute dark point in middle of cell; two 



Fig. 97. -Lagoptera dotata, (^ . \. 



small brown discoidal annuli ; postmedial line brown defined on 

 inner side by whitish, oblique, slightly excurved and sinuous from 

 below costa to vein 2 ; subterminal line indistinctly double, straight, 

 the inner line defining the whitish terminal area ; a crenulate 

 brown line just before termen ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish with dark brown lines at middle and tips. Hind wing 

 dark fuscous brown ; a narrow obliquely curved blue-white bana 

 just beyond middle from vein 6 to submedian fold; the termen 

 whitish irrorated with brown from just below apex to submedian 

 fold, with an indistinct crenulate brown line just before termen ; 



