. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 6IDERIDI3, 439 line ; abdomen ocbreous more or less tinged with brown, the ventral tufts of hair of male black. Fore wing purplish rufous with slightly darker irroratiom; the costal edge whitish ; an indis- tinct oblique waved antemedial line ; a small white spot at lower angle of cell; postmedial line indistinct, somewhat dentate and produced to black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, arising from termen below apex, angled inwards in discal and sub
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 6IDERIDI3, 439 line ; abdomen ocbreous more or less tinged with brown, the ventral tufts of hair of male black. Fore wing purplish rufous with slightly darker irroratiom; the costal edge whitish ; an indis- tinct oblique waved antemedial line ; a small white spot at lower angle of cell; postmedial line indistinct, somewhat dentate and produced to black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4; subterminal line indistinct, arising from termen below apex, angled inwards in discal and submedian folds m ¥ig. 12[.—Sidcriilis alhij)uncta, (^ . i. and excurved between those points, the area beyond it somewhat darker. Hind wing ocbreous, more or less strongly suffused with fuscous brown. Underside of male whitish, suffused with silvery scales except costal area of fore wing; of female pale, tinged with purplish red especially towards costa and termen and irrorated with brown. Ab. 1. italo-gallica. Darker dull brown. Ab. 2. flecci. Fore wing dull grey-brown ; hind wing fuscous. Hah. Britain, S. ; France, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Spain ; Italt ; Eumelia ; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia, Pontus ; Exp. 36 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 68 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 173, pi. 205. f. 2. Pale greyish ocbreous freckled with brownish ; dorsal line pale, brown-edged; subdorsal line pale, edged above with blackish, below with brown ; lateral line pale ; spiracular line whitish ; head ocbreous reticulated with brown. Food-plants, Grasses, 11-8. B. (Sideridis). Abdomen of male without paired ventral tufts of long Iiai from base. a. Fore wing yellow sufTused slightly with rufous viteilinc. h. Fore wing greyish suffused with rufous. a}. Fore wing not striated with rufous. a?. Thorax deep rufous rosea. h-. Thorax pale rufous . evidens. J\ Fore wing slriated with rufous norniani. c.^Fore wing deep rufous conffermana. d. Fore wing deep pu
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