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darker. Fore wing fuscous irrorated with white and suffused with 

 bluish grej' ; subbasal line represented by black striae from costa 

 and cell ; a slight black mark above inner margin near base ; sub- 

 basal line double, the inner line indistinct, the outer formed of 

 black striae, curved ; claviform minute, defined by black ; orbicular 

 and reniform with white annuli defined by black, the former 

 rounded, the latter with black striga in centre and slightly angled 

 inwards on median nervure ; an indistinct waved medial line, 

 oblique from costa to median nervure ; postmedial line double, the 



Fig. 74. — Ajporophylci mioleuca, (^ . \. 



outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, closely approximated to the reniform, oblique below vein 4, 

 some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line white 

 defined by fuscous on inner side, waved, angled outwards at vein 7 

 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black lunulas ; 

 cilia with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing white, the veins and 

 very ill-defined subterminal diffused band tinged with fuscous ; a 

 fine waved terminal line from apex to vein 2; the underside 

 irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and indistinct minutely 

 dentate postmedial line. 



Mab. Spain, Madrid, 1 cT , Granada (A. H. Jones), 1 J; ? Italy; 

 Sicily ; Algeria. Exjy. 34 millim. 



Sect. II. Antenuce of male bipectinafe with rathei* long branches to near 

 apex. 



2385. Aporophyla lutulenta. 



NocftM lutulenta, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 81 (1776); Borkh. Eur. Sehmett. 



iT. p. 576 (1792); Dup. Lep. Fr. v. p. 269, pi. 71. ff. 1, 2 ; Hubn. Eur. 



Sehmett., Noct. 1". 159; Herr.-Schaft'. Eur. Sehmett., Noct. ff. 83, 405; 



Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 

 Noclua electrica, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 46 (1793). 

 Noctuafusca, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 204 (1809) ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



ii. p. 109. 

 Koctua orthosiicfma, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 110 (1829). 

 Noctua consimilis, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 110 (1829). 

 Folia sedi, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 196, pi. 18. f. 1 (1836). 

 Koctua tripuncfa, Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 601. f. 3 (1848). 

 Noctua luneburgensis, Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 526. f. 2 (1848) ; Herr.-Schaff. 



Eur. Sehmett., Noct. ff. 428-430. 

 Aporophyla pallida, Calb. Iris, i. p. 237 (1884). 



S . Head and thorax dark brown mixed with grey ; pectus with 



