CHLORIDE A. 39 



b^. Fore wing without prominent dark marks ou 



costa n icbigcra. 



IP-. Fore wing witliout subterminal black point above 

 tornus. 

 «■'. Fore wing without pink costal fascia. 



«*. Fore wing with the inner area not safFused 

 with rufous and fuscous. 

 a\ Fore wing with the reuiforiii stigma large 



and dark scutuUgera. 



b". Fore wing with the reniform stigma obso- 

 lescent. 

 a*^. Fore wing with the postmedial line in- 

 distinct and strongly dentate armigera. 



b'^. Fore wing with the postmedial line 



distinct, double, and hardly dentate ... assulta. 

 b'''. Fore wing with the inner area suffused with 



rufous and fuscous xanthiata. 



b^. Fore wing with pink costal fascia chilensis. 



h. Fore wing with oblique anteniedial, medial, and post- 

 medial lines I'irescens. 



48. Chloridea ononis. 



Noctua ononis, Schiif. Wien. Verz. p. 89 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 143: Esp. Schmett. Eur. iv. pi. 172. &. 4-6; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. pi. 63. f. 312 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. 119. f, 3 ; Oberth. Et. Ent. 



xTiii. p. 44, pi. iii. f. 41 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 221. 

 Melicleptria septentrionaUs, H. Edw. Papilio, iv. p. 4.5 (18S4) ; Smith, Cat. 



Noct. jSF. Am. p. 289. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black, clothed with olive-grej' hairs, 

 the ventral surface with white hair. Fore wing whitish suffused 

 with pale olire-brown ; the basal area usually reddish brown to near 

 the antemedial line which is indistinct and waved ; the orbicular a 

 very indistinct dark ring-mark ; the reniform olive-brown with 

 blackish outline and placed ou a medial brown band which is oblique 

 from it to inner margin ; the postmedial line indistinct, minutely 

 waved, excurved from below costa to vein 3, then incurved to the 

 outer edge of medial band, and with a dark band from just beyond 

 it to the pale diffused subterminal line which is slightly angled 

 inwards at vein 6 : an obscure terminal series of darlv points some- 

 times present. Hind wing black, with short whitish streak usually 

 present in cell before the large oblique black discoidal lunule, which 

 has a whitish baud beyond it not reaching inner margin and some- 

 times interrupted at the lower extremity of discoidal lunule; more or 

 less prominent subterminal white spots above veins 2 and 3 ; cilia 

 white, with their bases dark ou ajncal half. Underside whitish, 

 with the discoidal spots and postmedial band black ; fore wing 

 with black orbicular and streak below base of cell. 



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