668 NOCTUIDiE. 



black, the postmedial area slightlj' suffused with fuscous ; siibbasal 

 line represented by slight double black strise from costa ; ante- 

 medial line double, erect, waved, obsolescent on costal half; orbi- 

 cular very small, defined by black, irregularly rounded ; reniform 

 dirty whitish defined by black, constricted at middle ; a diffused 

 fuscous medial line oblique from costa to below cell, then in- 

 curved; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, 

 then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, whitish 

 grey, defined on inner side by dark suffusion at costa, a dentate brown 

 line at middle and dentate black marks below veins 3 and 2, 

 dentate at veins 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, 1 ; a terminal series of small black 

 lunules ; cilia chequered whitish and fuscous. Hind wing yellow, 

 with terminal fuscous brown band with waved inner edge, wide at 

 apex, narrowing to tornus ; some yellow on termen in submedian 

 interspace ; cilia whitish with series of fuscous spots ; the under- 

 side with the costal and terminal areas whitish irrorated with 

 brown, a difi'used fuscous subterminal band. 

 Hah. Spain ; Sicily, 1 ^S • Ejcp- 50 millim. 



Sect. IT. {Polyphanis). An1enna3of male bipectiiiate with very short branches, 

 the apical part serrate. 



3564. Polyphaenis sericata. 



Noctua sericata, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 108. f. 4(1787); Stand. Cat. Lap 



pal. p. 184. 

 Noctua^ sericina, Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 183 (1790); Mill. Icones, pi. 104. f. 2. 

 Noctua prospicua, Hlibu. Eiu'. Schmett., Noct. f. 108 (1802) ; Dup. Lep. 



Er. vi. p. 398, pi. 97. f. 4 ; Err. ]S^eue Beitr. pi. 213. 

 Poli/pkcenis nebuUfera, Guen. Ann. Soc. Ent, ^v. 1841, p. 245. 

 Folyphanis propinqua, Stand. Iris, viii. p. 298 (1895). 

 Polyphmnis viridata, Eagusa, Nat. Sicil. xvii. p. 18, pi. i. f. 1 (1904). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey and some fuscous ; 

 sides of palpi and frons black ; vertex of head with black patch ; 

 antennae black ; tegulse with black line near tips ; patagia with 



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Fig. 172. — FolyphcBnis sericata, J. \. 



black scales on, edges; tarsi fuscous with pale rings; abdomen 

 grey-brown tinged with yellow, the crests fuscous, the anal tult 

 fulvous. Fore wing greyish suffused and thickly irrorated with 

 red-brown, the terminal area greyer, the basal area browner except 



