. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 120 XOCTUID^. scales; pectus rufous; legs blackish, the tarsi with wliite rings; abflomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing dark reddish brown, suffused in parts with sap- green ; the base green ; subbasal line double filled in with green, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double filled in with green, incurved in cell and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform short and broad, dark brown defined by black ; orbicular and reuiform with brown centres and gre
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 120 XOCTUID^. scales; pectus rufous; legs blackish, the tarsi with wliite rings; abflomen fuscous brown, the anal tuft ochreous, the ventral surface rufous. Fore wing dark reddish brown, suffused in parts with sap- green ; the base green ; subbasal line double filled in with green, waved, from costa to submedian fold; antemedial line double filled in with green, incurved in cell and angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform short and broad, dark brown defined by black ; orbicular and reuiform with brown centres and green annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter constricted at middle and expanding below; postmedial line indistinct, dentate, slightly bent .y. Fig. 2-f.âTolia 'pcnmiarsis, <^. \. outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, some o-reen points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line green, defined by dark brown suffusion on inner side and narrowly edged by black on outer, minutely and irregularly waved, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of black points ; cilia green and brown. Hind wing with the basal half brownish white, the terminal half dark reddish brown ; cilia ochreous white, with a fuscous line through them; the underside with the basal area pale irrorated with red-brown, the terminal area red-brown, a dark discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. Hah. Brazil, Rio Janeiro, 1 J . Exp. 36 millim. Type t J in Mus. Oxon. i\ Legs of male uormal. ci'^. Fore wing with the subterminal line dentate on â veins 4, '6 and forming a distinct ^-mark. a^. Fore wing with pale dentate mark on base of vein 2. (7*. Fore wing with black streak below base of cell. (fi. Fore wing with the antemedial line not angled outwards above inner margin 'praclita. If. Fore wing with the antemedial line strongly angled outwards above inner margin Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images
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