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costa to submedian fold ; a double waved antemedial line from sub- 

 costal nervure to vein 1 ; claviform defined by black; orbicular and 

 reniform large, grej-wbite defined by black, their centres slightly 

 defined by brown, the cell before and between them suff'used by 

 blackish, the orbicular oblique, elliptical ; the postmedial line 

 minutely dentate, indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved 

 to vein 4, then incurved ; the subterminal line pale, defined by 

 slight dentate dark marks on its inner side, and the area beyond it 

 darker except at apex, angled outwards at vein 7 and dentate at 

 veins 3 and 4 ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing white, 

 the veins and termen tinged with brown ; the underside with the 

 costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a slight dark 

 discoidal spot, 



5 . Hind Aving with the inner and terminal areas more strongly 

 tinged with brown. 



Ab. 1. fictilis. Fore wing with the veins of terminal area 

 defined by pale dentate marks. Head, thorax, and fore wing 

 usually much more ochreous. 



Ab. 2. ruris. Head and thorax much greyer brown ; fore wing 

 grey-brown irrorated with dark brown and black ; no black below 

 base of cell or in coll ; the antemedial line complete and more 

 strongly angled outwards above inner margin ; hind wing more 

 tinged and irrorated with brown. 



Hah. France, Sand Coll. ; Gekjiany, Mutzell and Zeller Colls. ; 

 Attsteia, Leech Coll. ; Spain ; Italy ; Algeria ; S. Russia, 1 S , 

 1 2 , Leech Coll. ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Pontus ; W. Siberia, 

 Altai ; W. Turkestan, Ala Tau ; ? Amtjrland ; Kashmir, Kuijar 

 (McArtlmr), 1 c? , hab. ign., 1 cj" type declarans. Mvj>. 38-40 millim. 



313. Eiixoa radius. 



Bomhyx radius, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 119 (1803). 



Noctua lignosa, Godt. Lep. Fv. v. p. 241, pi. 67. fF. 5, 6 (1821). 



Noctua erytlwoxylea, Tr. Schmett. Eur. v. 3, p. 31 (1825). 



Agrotis radiola, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 119, pi. 20. f. 3 (1827). 



Noctua puta, Hiibn. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 255 (1827); Godt. Lep. 



Fr. T. p. 243, pi. 67. f. 7 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 147. 

 Noctua renitens, Hilbn. Eur. Schmett, Noct. ff. 715-717 (1827). 

 Aporopkyla cata.launensis, Mill. Rev. Mag. Zool. 1873, p 4 ; id. Icones, 



pi. 146. ff. 4, 6. 



S . Head and thorax grey mixed with pale brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; tegtilae with black medial line ; tarsi banded 

 with black : abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing ochreous 

 suffused with pale brown or rafous • the veins with dark streaks ; 

 a more or less developed black streak in basal part of submedian 

 fold ; an indistinct double waved subbasal line from costa to sub- 

 median fold, with some black suffusion between it and the double 

 dentate antemedial line which is strongly angled inwards on vein 1 ; 

 claviform small, defined by black ; orbicular and reniform with 

 fuscous centres and whitish annuli defined by black, the former 

 elongate, usually connected with the reniform, sometimes repre- 

 sented by parallel dark lines ; postmedial line dentate and produced 



