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the area beyond it purplish fuscous except towards apex; a terminal 

 series of small black lunules ; cilia dark brown with punetiform 

 ochreoas line at base. Hind wing suffused with fuscous brown ; 

 a slight discoidal spot and oblique postmedial line ; cilia ochreons 

 white with brown line through them except towards tornus, the 

 underside ochreous white, the costal and terminal areas irrorated 

 with brown, a slight streak in cell, discoidal spot, oblique post- 

 medial line, and traces of diffused subterminal line.1 



Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Jonas, Fri/er), 2 d , 3 5 tj'pe ; 

 SiKHiM (Russell), 2 5 type ohliquiorbis. Exp. 40-16 millira. 



2839. Parasticlitis rurea. 



Noctua rurea, Fabr. Svst. Ent. p. 618 (1775); Diip. Lep. Fr. vii. pt. ii. 



p. 197, pi. 113. f. 2 rFrr. Beitr. pi. 4. f. 2 ; Steph. 111. Ei-it. Ent., Haust. 



ii. p. 176 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 174. 

 Noctua alopecurws, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 473, pi. 147. f. 3 (1790). 

 Noctua lucidcnta, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 133. ff. 3, 4 (1788). 

 Noutua putris, Hiibn. Eur. Sclimett., Noct. f. 241 (1820), nee Linn. 

 Noctua combusta, Hiiba. Eur. Schmett., Noct. L 366 (1808). 

 A^mmea aquila, Donz. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 476, pi. IS. f. 6 (1837) ; 



Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 448, pi. 39. i. 5. 

 Hadena exstincta, Staud. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1889, p. 43. 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with rufous and some white 

 scales ; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with lateral black bars ; 

 tegulse with black medial line and purjile-brown tips ; patagia 

 purple-brown edged with rufous above ; dorsal crest tipped with 

 black ; tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen reddish ochreous 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore 

 wing whitish ochreous to ochreous sufliased with rufous esjiecialiy 

 on costal area, the veins irrorated with black and white scales, the 

 inner margin more or less suffused with white, with a wedge- 

 shaped dark mark above base ; subbasal line represented by two 

 oblique rufous striae from eosta and two points on median nervure ; 

 antemedial line represented b}' double rufous striae from costa, then 

 very indistinct, oblique, dentate and angled inwards to double black 

 points on the veins, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform 

 slightly defined by rufous, acute at extremity ; o/bicular and 

 reniform with slight rufous centres and slightly defined by rufous, 

 the former very oblique wedge-shaped, the latter with slight white 

 streaks on upper and lower edges and somewhat angled inwards on 

 median nervure, the cell between them tinged with rufous ; traces 

 of a medial line oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then 

 dentate ; postmedial line double at costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, then dentate and produced to a double series of black points 

 on the veins, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, some whitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line only defined by the area 

 beyond it being deep rufous except at apex and the veins of terminal 

 area streaked with blackish and white, angled outwards at vein 7, 

 excurved at middle almost to termen and angled inwards at discal 



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