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NOCTiriD^. 



5 . Hiud wing with the postmedial line and diffused subterminal 

 band well developed, the former sinuous ; the underside irrorated 

 with brown, a postmedial line excurved from costa to vein 3, then 

 incurved. 



Ab. 1. amasina. Fore wing darker, blue-grey marked with 

 black and white. — Pontus. 



Hah. Switzerland, Valais, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls., Jura ; 

 Asia Minor, Pontus. £^r^9. 34-40 millim. 



2550. Antitype cM. 



Noctua clii, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. p. 514 (1758) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 114. 



ff. 1-3 ; Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 49 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 422, pi. 99. 



f. 3 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 34 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 180. 

 Folia olivacea, Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 325 (1829). 

 Folia subccerulea, G-ras. Berl. ent. Zeit. 1888, p. 329. 



S . Head and thorax white mixed with fuscous ; irons with latei-al 

 black bars ; tegulse with medial black line ; tarsi banded with 

 fuscous ; abdomen white irrorated with black. Fore wing white 

 irrorated with olive-grey or fuscous ; a double waved subbasal line 

 from costa to submedian fold ; a double waved oblique antemedial 

 line; claviform defined by black except above and with a black 

 streak in submedian fold from it to postmedial line ; orbicular and 

 reniform defined by black, the former rounded or rather quadrate, 



the latter slightly angled inwards on median nervure ; a waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line oblique from costa to vein 6, then 

 dentate, incurved below vein 4 to below end of cell, with another 

 more even line beyond it and some white points on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line white, defined on inner side by slight dentate fuscous 

 marks and at middle by black marks, angled outwards at vein 7 and 

 dentate at veins 4, 3, some slight olive suffusion beyond it ; a 

 terminal series of small streak-like marks ; cilia chequered white 

 and fuscous. Hind wing white, with fuscous subterminal marks at 

 middle and below vein 2 ; a terminal waved line ; the underside 

 with discoidal spot and usually a curved postmedial punctif orm line 

 showing through to upperside. 



2 . Darker ; hind wing suffused with fuscous, the veins and a 

 diffused subterminal band fuscous. 



Ab. 1. olivacea. Fore wing suffused with olive-grey. — Scotland, 

 Switzerland. 



