. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 254 NocTcriD^. 4636. Nocloa aliaga. (Plate CXLTI. fig. 22.) Stiria aliaga, Barnes, Cau. Ent. xxxvii. p. 213 (1905). Head and thorax pale yellow; palpi with slight brown streak above; pectus and legs tinged with rufous ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale yellow, a small orange ante- medial spot in cell and another in upper extremity ; traces of a very oblique sinuous postmedial orange line from vein 7 to inner margin; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia rufous mixed with yellow. Hind wing yellowish white with sl
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 254 NocTcriD^. 4636. Nocloa aliaga. (Plate CXLTI. fig. 22.) Stiria aliaga, Barnes, Cau. Ent. xxxvii. p. 213 (1905). Head and thorax pale yellow; palpi with slight brown streak above; pectus and legs tinged with rufous ; abdomen yellow tinged with rufous. Fore wing pale yellow, a small orange ante- medial spot in cell and another in upper extremity ; traces of a very oblique sinuous postmedial orange line from vein 7 to inner margin; a fine rufous terminal line; cilia rufous mixed with yellow. Hind wing yellowish white with slight brown terminal line. Underside of fore wing with the costal half tinged with rufous. Hah. , New Mexico, Sapello Caiion (Oslar), 1 c5', 1 $, Arizona. ). 30 millim. 4637. Nocloa alcandra. Xanthia alcandra, Druce, P. Z. S. 1890, p. 515; id. Eiol. , Het. ii. p. 485, pi. 94. f. 12. S . Head and thorax ochreous yellow mixed with rufous ; pectus and legs entirely suffused with rufous; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing golden yellow irrorated with orange-red, the costal area ro. Fig. 103.—Nocloa alcandra, (^. {. near apex, the cell and medial area to submedian fold suffused with purplish rufous, the veins slightly streaked with rufous ; ante- medial line brown, excurved below costa, angled inwards in cell and on vein 1 and outwards in submedian fold, orange-red towards inner margin ; orbicular and reniform very large, irrorated with orange-red and defined by red-brown, the former round ; post- medial line brown, slightly bent outwards below costa, obliquely incurved and slightly sinuous below vein 6 ; a red-brown terminal line. Hind wing yellowish white. Hab. Mexico, Guerrero, Tierra Colorada (//. H. SmitJi), 1 S type, Godman-Salvin Coll. Exj). 30 millim. *4638. Nocloa cordova. (Plate CXLII. fig. 23.) Xanthia cordova, Barnes, Can. Ent. xxxix. p. G5 (1907). Head and thorax yellow mixed with red-brown ; abdomen paler. Fore wing yellow tinged in parts with purplish
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