. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. i02 :. 2725. Cosmia fulvago. Xocfua full at/0, Linn. Faun. .Succ. p. '•>\'2 (17(>1 ); Borkli. Scriba, Beitr. 2, p. 144, pi.'10. f. 3 ; Steph. 111. lirit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. G4 ; Staud. Cat. Lop. pal. p. 1'08. I>'oiiiin vcrf/(/(i. SchifT. Wien. Verz. ]->. 87 (177<)); Fabr. ilant. Ins. ii. p. 150 (1787); ilubn. Eur. , Xoet. if. I'JO, ;.; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 459, pi. 129. if. 1, 2; Fit. Aeue Beitr. vii. pi. ruli. iY. ], 2. NocfuaJlacesccjis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 122. f. 2 (1788). Head
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. i02 :. 2725. Cosmia fulvago. Xocfua full at/0, Linn. Faun. .Succ. p. '•>\'2 (17(>1 ); Borkli. Scriba, Beitr. 2, p. 144, pi.'10. f. 3 ; Steph. 111. lirit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. G4 ; Staud. Cat. Lop. pal. p. 1'08. I>'oiiiin vcrf/(/(i. SchifT. Wien. Verz. ]->. 87 (177<)); Fabr. ilant. Ins. ii. p. 150 (1787); ilubn. Eur. , Xoet. if. I'JO, ;.; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 459, pi. 129. if. 1, 2; Fit. Aeue Beitr. vii. pi. ruli. iY. ], 2. NocfuaJlacesccjis, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 122. f. 2 (1788). Head and thorax pale yellow ; sides of palpi and frons and spots at base of patagia and on metathorax rufous ; tibiteand tarsi tinged with rufous; abdomen pale ochrcous yellow. Fore wing ]jale yellow ; subbasal line indistinctly double, rufous, excurved, from. Fig. 170.— Cosmia fidvago, (^ costa to submedian fold, a quadrate rufous patch beyond it from costa to median nervure; antcmedial line double, oblique, waved, interrupted ; orbicular and reniforra defined by rufous, tlie former round, the latter with small black aunulus at its lower extremity ; medial line rather diffused, oblique from costa to lower angle of cell, then dentate; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 4, a triangular rufous patch beyond it from costa to vein 5 with pale points on costa; subterminal line represented by a curved series of small black-brown spots; cilia yellow slightly tinged with rufous at base, deep rufous at tips. Hind wing yellowish white, the inner area slightly tinged with ochreous. Ab. 1. flavescens. Fore wing with the markings almost com- pletely obsolete except the annulate spot at lower angle of cell. Ab. 2. asiatica, Bang-Haas, iued. Fore wing more orange- yellow, the markings dark brown, the ante- and postmedial costal patches absent; cilia dark brown at tips.—Sir Daria. Jfdh. Britaix, Scotland, Leech England, Leech C
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