ii34 NOCTTJIDaE. 



in front ; abdomen pale ochreous slightly irrorated with brown. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous slightly suffused and irrorated with brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by a slight rufous striga from costa and 

 blackish striga from cell ; antemedial line pale rufous, with black 

 strise on it in and below cell, slightly angled outwards below costa, 

 oblique to just below vein 1, then bent inwards to inner margin ; 

 claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform with pale annuli, the 

 former round, the latter with slight fuscous marks on inner edge of 

 annulus ; postmedial line rufous, slightly excurved below costa and 

 incurved at discal fold, excurved at median nervules, then obliquely 

 incurved, approximated to the subterminal line, which is faintly 

 defined by pale fuscous on inner side, somewhat angled outwards 

 at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; cilia pale rufous. Hind wing 

 ochreous uniformly suffused with brown ; a dark terminal line ; 

 cilia ochreous ; underside whitish ; fore wing suffused with brown 

 except costal and terminal areas ; hind wing with very faint 

 diffused subterminal band. 



2 . Sides of palpi and frons and front of pectus slightly tinged 

 with brown ; fore wing with the markings less distinct, the lines 

 without the blackish strise, the cilia not rufous : hind wing slightly 

 tinged with brown ; underside of fore wing slightly tinged with 

 brown, the hind wing without subterminal band. 



Hah. Akmenia ; Asia. Minok, Pontus, Amasia, in Coll. Piingeler. 

 E.vp. 40 millim. 



Genus APOROPHYLA. 



Type. 



Aporophyla. Guen. Ann. Soc. Eut. Pr. x. p. 246 (1841), non 



descr. ; id. Noct. p. 151 (1862) australis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely porrect to just beyond fi'ons, the 

 2ncl joint fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prouiinence roughened in 

 front; eyes large, rounded ; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the 

 tegulas produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the pro- and metathoras with spreading 

 crests ; tibice fringed with hair above ; abdomen with some rough hair at base 

 and crest on basal segment. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded ; 

 veins 3 and 6 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 

 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below angle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 

 shortly stalked or from cell ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches to apex. 



2384. Aporophyla mioleuca. 



Hadena onioMica, Treit. Schmett. Eur., Suppl. p. 43 (1835); Embr. Cat. 



Lep. And. pi. 12. f. 2 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 

 Polia chipleuca, Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett, ii. .p. 255, Noct. ff. 76-78 



(1845). 

 Aporophyla corticosa, Led. Noct. p. 224 (1857). 



(S . Head and thorax fuscous mixed with white and tinged 

 with bluish grey and brown ; legs fuscous ringed with white ; 

 abdomen white slightly mixed with pale fuscous, the dorsal crest 



