. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ANNAPHILA. 481 fore wing orange, the costal edge black, a broad very irregular oblique black medial band, a discoidal stigma and patch beyond lower angle of cell, the terminal area black, very broad at costa, with subterminal series of slight yellow streaks on it and white spot on costa ; hind, wing with the antemedial line obsolete at costa, the terminal band with slight white spots ou it below costa and between veins G and 2. Hah. , California, Plumas Co., 1 $ cotype. Exp. 24 millim. 4968. Annaphila diva. AnnapJdla di
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ANNAPHILA. 481 fore wing orange, the costal edge black, a broad very irregular oblique black medial band, a discoidal stigma and patch beyond lower angle of cell, the terminal area black, very broad at costa, with subterminal series of slight yellow streaks on it and white spot on costa ; hind, wing with the antemedial line obsolete at costa, the terminal band with slight white spots ou it below costa and between veins G and 2. Hah. , California, Plumas Co., 1 $ cotype. Exp. 24 millim. 4968. Annaphila diva. AnnapJdla dim. Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 150, vA. 4. f. 14 (1873); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 2%. Head and thorax black-brown mixed with white scales; antennse ringed with white ; pectus and legs mostly white, the tarsi blackish ringed with white; abdomen black mixed with white towards ex- tremity and with white segmental I'ings. Fore wing dark brown mixed Avith some grey; subbasal line represented by double black striiB from costa; antemedial line sinuous and somewhat oblique ; orbicular small, round, incompletely defined by black ; reniform. Fig. 229.—Annaphila dim, S- \- white with grey lunule in centre, connected with costa and inner margin by an oblique white band, its inner edge indented at sub- median fold ; a somewhat diffused sinuous dark oblique medial line ; postmedial line white with some dark scales on its outer edge, slightly bent outwards below costa and incurved at discal fold, in- curved below vein 4 and confluent with the medial band, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line represented by a blackish spot below vein 7 and a white spot in submedian interspace ; a ter- minal series of faint dark lunules ; cilia vpith a slight dark line through them. Hind wing yellowish white, the base brown followed by an oblique brown subbasal line ; a narrow black-brown terminal band, expanding somewhat on apical area and below vein 2 and ending in a poin
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