238 



KOCTUID^. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 58 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit, iv. p. 282, pi. 167. f. 1. 



Yellow-green, dorsallj- suffused with reddish ; dorsal line pale 

 reddish marked with V-shaped black spots ; a subdorsal series of 

 hlack marks, spiracular line pale yellowish ; head greenish speckled 

 with brown. Food-plants: Grasses, Cichorium. J 0-4. 



Sect. IV. Antennse of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Fore TrtMng black tinged with purplish grey nigra. 



B. Fore wing black mixed with dark brown haasi. 



2387. Aporophyla nigra. 



Noctua nigra, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 192 (1809) ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



ii. p. 110, pi. 20. f. 1 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 178. 

 Noctua cethiops, Ochs. Schmett. Eur. iv. p. (i7 C1816) ; Gever, Eur. Scbmett., 



Noct. f. 861 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. ii. pi. 147. f. 2 & iii. pi. 221. 

 Noctua nigricans, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 538 (1827); Greyer, Eur. 



Schmett., Noct. ff. 859-60. 

 Aporo'phyla seileri, Fuchs, Stett. ent. Zeit. xii. p. 128 (1901). 



Head and thorax black with a purplish- grey gloss; tegulae with 

 black medial line ; tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous 

 brown tinged with groy and with some whitish hair at base. Pore 

 wing black suffused with purplish grey and slightly irrorated with 

 white, chiefly on the veins which are slightly darker ; a double 

 dentate subbasol line from costa to submedian fold; a double 

 waved antemedial line ; claviform moderate, defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform defined by black ; the former oblique 

 elliptical, the Latter with more or less developed ochreous points on 

 its outer edge; an irregularly waved indistinct medial line oblique 



Fig. 77. — Aj)oroijhyla nigra, J • f • 



from costa to lower angle of cell; postmcdial line double, the outer 

 line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved 

 to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal line formed by a series of 

 obscure dentate dark marks with a few ochreous scales on their 

 outer edges, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a 

 terminal series of black points ; cilia with slight whitish line 

 through them. Hind wing white, the veins and inner margin 

 suffused with brown, the terminal area irrorated with brown ; a fine 

 dark terminal line ; cilia brown, whitish at tips, of female brown 

 with some white in, below, and beyond cell ; underside with the 

 costal area irrorated with brown, a discoidal point and postmedial 

 series of short streaks on the veins. 



