Orthosia incerta may be complete or broken up into three blotches; upper stigmata large, the reniform generally dark, both edged with pale; a strong thick median shade, sometimes bent at middle and entire, often marked only at costa and inner margin; hindwing pale or dark grey with dark cellspot and pale fringe. The markings are all clearer in the grey unsuffused forms: of these the chief are pallida Lampa from Sweden with the ground colour pale grey, finely striated with dark, and the two dotted cross lines;- "coerulescens" Tutt with the ground colour pale bluish grey; — "subsetaceus" Haw.which is dark slaty
A Whiter Shade of Pale is also referred to humorously in the 1982 play "The Real Thing" by Tom Stoppard and in the 1991 film "The Commitments". Other writers have noted similar “family resemblances” to other works by Bach: the Sinfonia which opens the cantata "Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe", BWV 156, the organ chorale Prelude "O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß" (O Man, Lament Your Sin So Great), BWV 622, from the "Orgelbüchlein" (Little Organ Book) and the Cantata "Sleepers Wake", BWV140. The music also borrows ideas from "When a Man Loves a Woman" by Percy Sledge. Procol Harum recorded "A Whiter