MEGANEPHRIA. 



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to termen below veins 4, 3, 2 ; a fine waved black terminal line ; 

 cilia grey and dark brown. Hind wing fuscous brown ; a slight 

 pale mark on vein 2 near termen ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish at base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a 

 small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. cinerea. Darker; fore wing with the whole inner area 

 suffused with dark brown. 



Ilah. Japan, Yokohama (Pri/er), 8 $ type and tj'pe cinerea. 

 Exp. 50-60 millim. 



2476. Meganepliria bimaculosa. 



Noctua himaculosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p. 856 (1766) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 

 pi. 157. f. 5; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 32; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. 

 p. 378, pi. 96. f. -2 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 177 ; Steph. Ill, Brit. Eut., 

 Haust. iii. p. 24; Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 181. 



Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with dark brown ; palpi 

 blackish at sides ; frons with black bar ; tegulse with slight black 

 medial line and black tips : patagia edged with black ; tarsi with, 

 dark rings ; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown. Fore wing 

 grey-white tinged in parts with rufous and irrorated with dark 

 brown ; the veins with dark streaks ; a slight dark streak below 

 base of cell ; subbasal line double, angled outwards below costa 

 and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double,, 

 angled outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate, oblique, 

 angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform large, defined by 

 brown ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish defined by brown. 



Fig. 99. — Meganephria bimaculosa, cJ. \. 



the former very oblique elliptical, the latter with its upper ex- 

 tremity produced ; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to 

 below cell, then inwardly oblique ; postmedial line indistinctly 

 double filled in with whitish, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely dentate, very oblique below vein 4, a rufous shade 

 beyond it in submedian interspace and some white points on costa; 

 subterminal line indistinct, brown, dentate, strongly angled in- 

 wards in submedian interspace and with black streak beyond it 

 below vein 4; a terminal series of slight dentate brown marks. 

 Hind wing whitish suffused and irrorated with reddish brown ; the 

 veins brown ; a large brown discoidal lunule ; traces of a sinuous 

 postmedial line ; a diffused brown spot on vein 2 near termen ; a 

 slightly waved brown terminal line ; cilia whitish ; the underside 



