50 NOCTXJID.55. 



Ji. Fore wing with the antemeclial line less oblique and 

 slightly sinuous below submedian fold. 

 a?. Foi-e wing grey-brown without series of whitish 



points beyond postmedial line phaochroa. 



62. Fore wing olive-brown with series of whitish points 



beyond postmedial line olivescaria. 



2785. Mania maura. 



Noctua maura, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 512 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. 



pi. 107. f. 1 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 326; Frr. Beitr. pi. .53; 



Godavt, Lep. Fr. v. pi. 64. ff. 1, 2 ; Don. Brit. Ins. vii. pi. 230. f. 1 ; 



Staph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 129 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. 

 TJialcBoia lenmr, Meinecke, Naturf. vi. pi. 5. f. 1 (1775). 



Head and thorax fuscous brown mixed with grey ; patagia with 

 grey upper edge, the tips of crests grey ; abdomen dark fuscous 

 brown, the crests grey at tips. Fore wing grey tinged with flesh- 

 colour and fuscous, the medial area dark fuscous brown except on 



Fig. 11. — jMania maura, S • \- 



costal area ; subbasal line represented by double cui'ved black striae 

 from costa filled in with grey and double oblique black marks from 

 cell filled in with grey ; anteraedial line with double oblique widely 

 separated fuscous stria3 from costa, then indistinctly double filled 

 in with grey, curved and sinuous to vein 1, then strongly bent 

 inwards to inner margin ; orbicular grey slightly defined by black 

 scales and with its centre irrorated with some black scales, obliquely 

 lunulate, concave towards base ; reniform large, blackish, irrorated 

 with some greyish and with pale aunulus slightly defined by black, 

 angled inward on subcostal nervure and on median nervure to near 

 orbicular, its outer edge minutely waved and its lower extremity 

 produced and truncate ; an oblique diffused fuscous striga from 

 costa to reniform; the inner margin with slight reddish streak on 

 medial area ; postmedial line do\ible, the lines widely separated at 

 costa and filled in with greyish, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then erect and very slightly sinuous; subterminal line ochreous 

 grey defined on inner side by a broad irregular band of fuscous 

 ■sufFusiou, narrowing at submedian fold and with some pale points 



