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NOCTUIDJE. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 10, pi. 138. f. 1. 



Pale greenish or ochreous, black-dotted. : dorsal line pale, partly 

 edged with short dark marks ; two blackish spots on somite 12 ; 

 sometimes a lateral series of oblique darker marks ; spiracular 

 line pale ; head pale with dark markings. Food-plants : Primula, 

 Stellaria, Ruhus, etc. 9-5. 



1080. Triphasna interjecta. 



Noctua interjecta, Hubn. Samml. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. pi. 23. f. 107 (1827) ; 

 Herr.-Schaff. Scbmett. Eur. ii. p. 328 ; GocTt. Lep. Fr. v. p. 154, pi. 59. 

 f. 1 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 105. 6 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. 

 p. 135. 



Head and thorax yellow-brown or red-brown ; palpi and legs 

 grey-brown irrorated with white, the tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous brown, the hair at sides, anal tuft, and ventral 

 surface pinkish. Fore wing yellow-brown or reddish brown, the 

 markings often almost obsolete ; double, waved, subbasal and ante- 

 medial lines, the latter excurved below cell ; orbicular and reniform 

 faintly defined by fuscous ; an indistinct medial shade ; the post- 

 medial line waved, oblique towards costa, excurved at median 



Fig. 114. — TriphcBiia inieriecta, cJ. \. 



nervules, then incurved, and with some dark points beyond it on 

 the veins ; a diffused subterminal shade slightly angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and incurved below vein 4 ; a terminal line and line 

 through the cilia. Hind wing orange-yellow ; the cell, costal and 

 inner areas suffused with fuscous brown ; a slight discoidal lunule ; 

 a broad black terminal band expanding on apical area and with 

 sinuous inner edge ; the termen and cilia yellow, with some fuscous 

 on the latter towards apex. Underside of fore wing fuscous, with 

 the costal and terminal areas brownish ochreous ; hind wing with 

 the costal area pinkish. 



Hah. Britain ; Fkance ; Geemant, Zeller Coll. ; Hitngakt, Frey 

 Coll, ; Spain ; Corsica ; Italy ; Dalmatia. Ecci:). 36 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 106j_ Barrett, Lep. Brit_. iv. p. 13, pi. 138. f. 2. 



Pale ochreous, dorsal and subdorsal lines whitish, brown-edged ; 

 spiracular line pale ; dots black ; head pale ochreous with dark 

 markings. Food-plants: grasses, iiwrne*', PrmuZa, etc. 9-5 



