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some white hair ; abdomen grey mixed with brown. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown with a purplish-grey gloss ; traces of a double waved 

 subbasal line from costa to submedian fold; an indistinct double waved 

 oblique antemedial line ; claviform minute, indistinctly defined ; 

 orbicular and reniform indistinctly defined by brown, the former 



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Fig. 75. — Aporojphyla lutulenta, c?. \. 



round ; an indistinct waved medial line oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell, then approximated to the postmedial line, which is 

 doable, bent outwards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line indistinct, pale, defined by brown on inner side, 

 dentate, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of slight dark lunules. Hind wing white, the veins 

 and a fine terminal line brownish ; the underside with the costal 

 area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule. 



$ . Hind wing uniformlj^ suffused with brown. 



Ab. 1. lunehur-gensis. Pore wing more suffused with purplish 

 grey, the markings distinct, the lines filled in with pale grey ; the 

 medial area sometimes suffused with black ; hind wing with the 

 basal half whitish in female. 



Ab. 2. sedi. Fore wing pale grey irrorated with reddish brown, 

 the markings distinct ; hind wing with the basal half whitish in 

 female. 



Hah. BRiTAiiir, Leech Coll. ; Ireland, Leech Coll. : France, 

 Zeller and Sand Colls. ; Holland, Zeller and Frey Colls. ; Germany, 

 Zeller and Leech Colls. ; Atjsteia ; Hungary ; 8avitzeeland, F'rey 

 Coll. ; Spain, Castile ; Italy ; Dalmatia ; S. Sweden ; Etjssia, 

 Livonia. Exp. 36-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iv. p. 274, pi. 166. f. 1. 



Pale green, the thoracic somites dorsally suffused with pink ; 

 dorsal and subdorsal lines brownish, interrupted, beginning at 

 somite 4 ; spiracular line white edged with crimson above. Food- 

 plants : Myosotis, Litliospermum, Achillea, &c. 10-4. 



Sect. III. Antennae of male with 'short branches ending in fasciculate cilia, 

 the apical part serrate. 



2386. Aporophyla australis. 



Hadena australis, Boisd. Ind. Meth. Add. p. 6 (1829); Rmbr. Ann. Soc. 

 Ent. Fr. i. p. 291, pi. 9. f. 8; Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. p. 27, pi. 209. 

 f. 4 ; Dup. L6p. Fr., Suiopl. iii. p. 391, pi. 35. ff. 4, 5 ; Herr. Scliaff. Eur. 



