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small lunules ; cilia fuscous intersected with rufous. Hind wing 

 reddish brown tinged with fuscous especially on terminal area ; a 

 slight discoidal lunule ; cilia whitish tinged with rufous and with 

 series of brown points ; the underside whitish tinged with rufous, 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal 

 lunule, sinuous postmedial line with minute dark streaks on the 

 veins and subterminal shade. 



Hah. W. China, Chang-yang (Pratt), 1 d , 3 $ type. E.V2). 46 

 millim. 



2830. Parastichtis monoglypha. 



Nociiia polyodoii, Linn. Faun. Suec. ii. p. 322 (1761), nee Clerck, 1759; 



Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. pi. i. p. 176, pi. 111. f. 4 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. 



ii. p. 176. 

 Noctna monoglypha, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 308 (1767) ; Stand. Oat. Lep. 



pal. p. 173 

 Noctua radicea, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 81 (1776) ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., 



Noct. f. 82. 

 Hadena mfuscata, Buclianan-White, Faun. Pertliensis, pt. i. (1871). 

 Hadena uniformata, Weym. Jhrb. Nat Ver. Elberfeld, 1878, p. 78. 

 Hadena ohscura, Th. Mieg. Le Natural. 1886, p. 237. 

 Hadena polyglypha, Staud. Iris, iv. p. 286 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. 



p. 173. 

 Hadena (Bthiops, Tutt, Br. Noct. i. p. 74 (1891). 

 Hadena pallida, Fnchs, Jhrb. Nass. 1892, p. 94, 



Head and thorax red-brown mixed with white ; palpi with some 

 fuscous scales ; frons with lateral black bars ; tegulaj with black 

 medial line ; patagia with black streak near upper edge ; tarsi 

 banded with fuscous ; abdomen red-brown, greyish at base. Fore 

 wing grey-white more or less uniformly suffused with red-brown ; 

 subbasal line represented by double striae from costs and cell ; a 

 sinuous black streak in base of submedian fold and a streak above 

 inner margin near base ; antemedial line indistinctly double filled in 

 with grey, oblique, dentate, strongly angled outwards in submedian 

 fold and above inner margin, then retracted to inner margin ; clavi- 

 form narrow, defined by black and with black streak from its lower 

 edge to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform with slight greyish 

 annuli defined by black, the former very oblique elliptical, the latter 

 large and extending to well below cell ; a diffused purple-brown 

 medial shade; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, bent 

 outwards below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line 

 whitish, defined at middle by dentate black marks on inner side, 

 angled outwards at vein 7 and to termen at veins 4, 3, angled in- 

 wards above and below vein 5 and incurved below vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia red-brown intersected with 

 whitish. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with brown, the 

 terminal area broadly suffused with fuscous brown : a slight 

 discoidal lunule and sinuous postmedial line ; cilia ochreous white ; 

 the underside ochreous white, the costal area irrorated with brown, 

 a discoidal spot., sinuous postmedial line, and diffused subterminal 

 band. 



