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2485. Agriopis aprilina. 



Noeiua aprilina, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 514 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. lis. ff. 1-3 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 25 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 182. 

 Noctua, runica, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 71 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 365, pi. 95. f. 5. 



Head and thorax whitish suffused with pale blue-green or olive- 

 green ; sides of 1st and 2nd joints of palpi and frons black ; 

 antennae black annulate with white ; tegulae with black spots at 

 base of centre and sides and strong black terminal band ; patagia 

 with black outer edges ; meso- and metathorax with paired black 

 marks ; pectus clothed with white and brown hair ; legs white 

 banded with black ; abdomen whitish irrorated and suffused with 

 black, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore wing white suft'used with 

 pale blue-green or olive-green, rarely largelj^ suffused with black, 

 especially on inner basal and median areas; a waved black subbasal 

 line from costa to submedian fold, slight in cell and followed by 

 a striga from costa and cell, a patch below cell and short fascia 

 above inner margin ; a waved black antemedial line defined by 

 white on inner side, double at costa, interrupted below costa and 

 angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black except above 



Fig. 104. — Agriopis aprilina, S • \- 



and with black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large, white with slight greenish centres and 

 defined by black, the former elliptical, usually open above and 

 below, the latter usually open above, produced above and below and 

 extending well below cell; a strong waved black medial line ; post- 

 medial line black defined by white on outer side, double at costa or 

 throughout, bent outwards and usually interrupted below costa, then 

 dentate and produced to black and white points on the veins, strongly 

 incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa with 

 black streaks between them ; subterminal line white, defined on 

 inner side by a black bar from costa, then by dentate black marks, 

 dentate, angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle, then 

 oblique ; a terminal series of small triangular black marks ; cilia 

 white intersected with black. Hind wing whitish suffused with 

 black; an indistinct postmedial line defined by whitish on outer 

 side ; a diffused irregular whitish subterminal band ; a series of 

 black terminal spots ; cilia whitish intersected with black ; the 

 underside white slightly tinged with black, the costal area irrorated 



