. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HYSSIA. 285 Fore wing not tinged with violaceous. a^. Fore wing witli the orbicular not connected with the reniform. a^. Fore with the reniform rufous fasciata. b^. Fore wing with the reniform grey with two white points on its lower extremity niveiguttata. b^. Fore wing with the orbicular connected with the reni form orhiculata. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-white mascidina. 1537. Hyssia cavernosa. Mamestm cavernosa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 547, pi. 5. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. Mamestra oniaia, Her
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. HYSSIA. 285 Fore wing not tinged with violaceous. a^. Fore wing witli the orbicular not connected with the reniform. a^. Fore with the reniform rufous fasciata. b^. Fore wing with the reniform grey with two white points on its lower extremity niveiguttata. b^. Fore wing with the orbicular connected with the reni form orhiculata. Fore wing with the ground-colour grey-white mascidina. 1537. Hyssia cavernosa. Mamestm cavernosa, Ev. Bull. Mosc. 1842, iii. p. 547, pi. 5. f. 3; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 159. Mamestra oniaia, Eur. Schmett., Noct. ff. 46, 47 (1845). Head and thorax red-brown slightly mixed with grey-white; tegulse with dark medial line and whitish tips; tarsi with white rings ; abdomen ochreous. Fore wing violaceous grey, almost entirely suffused with purple-brown except just before antemedial line and on medial and postmedial areas ; an ochreous-white stripe on inner area narrowing to points near base and termen, and with. Fig. 61.—Hyssia cavernosa, (^. a short black streak above its basal part; subbasal line grey, nearly straight, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double, filled in with grey, nearly straight, from costa to vein 1 ; claviform large, black-browu defined by black ; orbicular and reniform black- brown defined by black, the former small, round, the latter large, with black lunule at centre and its lower part dilated ; an indis- tinct medial shade, oblique from costa to vein 2 ; postmedial line slightly bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some white points beyond on costa; subterminal line white, angled outwards at vein 7 and very slightly excurved at middle, a black bar on its inner side below costa and dentate marks at middle; terminal area brown, with indistinct series of lunules on termen. Hind wing ochreous brown, the cilia pale at tips ; the underside whitish tinged with brown, the costal area suffused with redd
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