. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 582 :. 8432. Palaeoplusia vennsta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 24.) Thma venusta, Wlk. xxxiii. 83G (1805); Ottolengiii, J. iS\Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. Tii. f. 11 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248. Flusia slriaieUa, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1873). Head and thorax ochreous tinged with ; antennae rufous ; j)atagia with oblique rufous bars at base edged behind b_v whitish ; abdomen oehreous. Fore wing bright rufous; the costal area ochreous, broadly be3'ond the cell where it extends to vein 5; the inner are
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 582 :. 8432. Palaeoplusia vennsta. (Plate CCXXXIX. fig. 24.) Thma venusta, Wlk. xxxiii. 83G (1805); Ottolengiii, J. iS\Y. Ent. Soc. x. pi. Tii. f. 11 ; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 248. Flusia slriaieUa, Grote, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 194 (1873). Head and thorax ochreous tinged with ; antennae rufous ; j)atagia with oblique rufous bars at base edged behind b_v whitish ; abdomen oehreous. Fore wing bright rufous; the costal area ochreous, broadly be3'ond the cell where it extends to vein 5; the inner area oclu'eoiis, extending to just above vein 1, which is. Fig. 127.—I'al(eoj)f'Usia venaata, J. y. streaked with rufous, except at base; a silvery-white streak from below middle of cell to near termen above vein 2 ; a black point at upper angle of cell; a fine bx-own terminal line defined on inner side by an ochreous line except towards tornus, the rufous curving upwards on its inner side to below apex ; cilia oclu'eous, the tips pale rufovis. Hind wing ochreovis suffused with glossy brown; a slight ochreous line before the fine terminal brown line; cilia ochi-eous ; the underside ochreous, the terminal half faintly tinged with rufous except towards tornus, a slight brown discoidal lunide. Hah. Canada, Ontario, Orillia {Bush), 1 5 type, Alberta, Calgary {WoUe,j-Dod), 2 S ; , Maine, New York, 2 6, ])istr. of Columbia. Exp. 34—38 millim. Genus ABROSTOLA. Ahrostola, Oc\\s. Schmctt. Eur. iv. p. 88 (181G), iion descr.; Type. Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 9() (1829) iriplada. Inguridia, Butl. A. M. IN. II. (5) iv. p. 354 (1879) ahrostolina. Proboscis fully cleTeloped ; jmlpi Ujiturncd, the 2nd joint reju'hing to about vertex of and moderately scaled, the 3rd rather long; tVons smooth with large tul't of hair, a flaltened tuft of hair between antenn;v ; eyes large, riiund, overhung by long cilia; antcnnro of male minutely ciliated; thorax flnthed almost entirely
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