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A. Hind wing with large black discoidal lunule radiosa. 



B. Hind wing without black discoidal lunule. 



a. Fore wing reddish brown, with distinct white terminal ^- 



mark polyochn. 



h. Fore wing gi-ey, without distinct terminal ^-mark. 



a^. Fore wing with the orbicular not connected with the 



renifbrra hyperici. 



b'^. Fore wing with the orbicular connected inferiorly with 



the reniform by a curved mark conjuncta. 



219. Actinotia radiosa. 



Noctua radiosa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 195. f. 3 (1786) ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 234, pi. 115. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 183. 

 Koctua h/ncca, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 434 (1827). 



Head and thorax olive-brown mixed with grey and black, some- 

 times nearly ail black ; 2:)eetus and legs clothed with olive-white 

 hair, the latter mixed with black ; abdomen black with white seg- 

 mental lines, the ventral surface whitish. Fore wing pale olive- 

 brown, the medial area suffused with red-brown, sometimes largely 

 suffused Avith black ; some subbasal white streaks from cell to inner 

 margin ; an indistinct antemedial line strongly angled out-wards 

 below cell and above inner margin ; orbicular obsolete ; reniform 

 narrow, with rufous or blackish centre with white line on it and 

 white annulus ; postmedial line indistinct, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa and incurved below vein 3 ; subterminal line whitish, 

 diffused towards termen as dentate marks on each side of veins, 

 between veins 2 and 5 forming a distinct ^-mark ; a series of small 

 dentate black spots just before termen and a fine terminal line; 

 cilia brown intersected with wdiite. Hind wing black, the basal 

 and inner areas clothed wdth grey hair ; a white patch beyond the 

 cell more or less completely defining the large black discoidal lunule 

 and crossed by the black veins ; cilia white. Underside whitish : 

 both wings with black discoidal spot, fascia below the cell and 

 postmedial band emitting dentate marks towards termen on veins 

 3, 4 of fore wing and on hind wing diffused over terminal area on 

 tornal half or wholly. 



Hah. France, Central and Southern : Geemant ; Hirif gary, Zeller 

 and Frey Colls.; Spain; It.4ly ; Bulgaria {Mrs. Nicholl\ Id", 

 X $ ; EussiA, Urals ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus. Exp. 28- 

 32 millim. 



220. Actinotia polyodon. 



Thalmna polyodon, Clerck, Icon. pi. 2. f. 2 (1759); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 183. 

 Noctua perspiciUaris, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 317 (1761 ) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 134. f. 3 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 249 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. 



p. 149, pi. 110. f. 2. 



Head and thorax red-brown ; frons and vertex of head banded 

 with grey ; tegulse grej', with two brown lines ; patagia and thorax 

 striped w^ith grey : pectus grey at sides ; legs streaked with grey 



