. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TEIGOKOPHOEA. 487 about to middle of frons and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male witli fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with hair only ; the tegulte produced to a dorsal ridge, the prothorax with triangular crest, the metathorax with large paired spreading crests ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair at base, with dorsal crests on basal segments and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing w
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TEIGOKOPHOEA. 487 about to middle of frons and broadly fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short; frons smooth with large tuft of hair ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male witli fasciculate cilia; thorax clothed with hair only ; the tegulte produced to a dorsal ridge, the prothorax with triangular crest, the metathorax with large paired spreading crests ; tibise moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with rough hair at base, with dorsal crests on basal segments and lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing with the apex obliquely truncate, the termen and cilia typically strongly dentate, the termen excised from vein 4 to tornus veins o and o from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent froui below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Fore wing with the termen and cilia strongly dentate and the termen strongly excised below vein 4. A, Fore wing with the V-shaped mark between orbicular and reniform filled in with dark brown mctmdosa. B. Fore wing witli the V-shaped mark between orbicular and reniform not filled in with dark brown iris. 3347. Trigonopliora meticnlosa. Nociua meticidosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. x. p. 513 (1758); Esp. Schmett. iv. p. 112, IF. 5-7: Hilbn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 67; Dap. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 340, pl. 94. f. 3; Donovan, Brit. Ins. iv. pl. 139; Steph. III. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 83; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Head and thorax ochreous white tinged with rufous; palpi pale red except ai tips ; sides of frons brownish red ; tegulae with fine brown lines at middle and tips ; patagia with fine brown line near base and slight streak on upper edge ; metathoracic crests bright rufous; pectus pule red; legs pale brown, the spurs, extremity of tibite and tarsi ringed with white
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