GRAMMODES. 



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Noctua hifasckda, Petag. Spec. Ins. p. 38, f. 26 (1T87). 

 Kociua linearis, Hiibn. Beitr. ii. p. 26, pi. iv. f. T (1791). 

 Noctua chalciptera, Borkh. Schniett. Eur. iv. p. 771 (1792). 

 Noctua parallel arts, Hiibn. Eur. ScbmetL, Noct. f. 324 (1802). 



Head and thorax brown irrorated with grey ; pectus, legs, and 

 abdomen grey-brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown irrorated 

 with grey ; a black patch before the oblique yellowish white medial 

 band, its inner edge extending obliquely from middle of cell to 

 submedian fold, then erect to inner margin, the band extending to 

 discal fold and with a slight black line from it to costa to which 

 it is slightly bent inwards; medial area black from just above 

 discal fold to inner margin ; a rather oblique postmedial band from 

 vein 6 to inner margin, yellowish white on inner side, rufous on 

 outer, its inner edge bent inwards to inner margin near the medial 



Fig. -1. — Gmmmodes geomdrica, c?. ,. 



band and with a slight blackish line from it to costa to which it is 

 bent inwards, the outer edge of the band defined by black, excurved 

 at middle and slightly at vein 2 and inner margin ; an oblique 

 black mark from apex to above vein 6, where it is bent inwards to 

 just above the outer edge of the postmedial band ; a faint curved 

 pale shade from apex to tornus ; a slight crenulate dark terminal 

 line ; cilia with a faint dark line at middle. Hind wing brown, 

 the terminal half tinged with fuscous ; an oblique whitish band 

 from middle of costa to above tornus ; an oblique whitish shade 

 from vein 3 to termen at submedian fold ; cilia white, brown at 

 middle and tornus. Underside of fore wing greyish browii with 

 white postmedial band from below costa to inner margin ; hind 

 wing pale brown, a slight dark discoidal spot, faint minutely Avaved 

 medial and postmedial lines, and a subtennin.al shade except on 

 inner area. 



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