. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DERTHISA. 233 2382. DertMsa scoriacea. Bomhyx scoriacea, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 83. iF. 4, 5 (1786); Frr. Beitr. pi. 141. f. 3; Boisd. , pi. 71. f. 1; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 157, pi. 15. f. 3; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. NoctuacaprecB, HiJbn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 19 (1827). Head and thofax ochreous white mixed with brown ; tegulae with slight dark medial line ; tarsi brown with pale rings : abdomen whitish suffused with ochreous brown. Pore wing grey-white suffused in parts with pale rufous a
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. DERTHISA. 233 2382. DertMsa scoriacea. Bomhyx scoriacea, Esp. Scbmett. iii. pi. 83. iF. 4, 5 (1786); Frr. Beitr. pi. 141. f. 3; Boisd. , pi. 71. f. 1; Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iii. p. 157, pi. 15. f. 3; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. NoctuacaprecB, HiJbn. Eur. Scbmett., Noct. f. 19 (1827). Head and thofax ochreous white mixed with brown ; tegulae with slight dark medial line ; tarsi brown with pale rings : abdomen whitish suffused with ochreous brown. Pore wing grey-white suffused in parts with pale rufous and irrorated slightly with brown, the medial area suffused with reddish brown, the veins with slight dark streaks ; subbasal line waved, from costa to subraedian fold ; antemedial line double, obliquely exeurved, incurved at vein 1; claviform small, rufous defined by black; orbicular and reniform with whitish annuli defined by black, the former round, its centre. Fig. 73.—Berthisa scoriacea, S. \. suffused by brown, the latter rather produced above with brown lunule in centre followed by a rufous patch ; a sinuous medial shade ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, exeurved to vein 4, then incurved, exeurved below submedian fold ; subterminal line defined bj^ an oblique fuscous patch on inner side at costa, then slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7, exeurved at middle and incurved at submedian fold ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia brownish ochreous with a dark brown line through them. Hind wing white with a fine dark terminal line; the female sometimes with traces of diffused sub- terminal band ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a slight black discoidal point. Hob. , Sand Coll,; Attsteia, Zeller and Frey Colls. ;, Htingaet, Leech Coll.; jS". and Centr. Italy ; Dalmatia, Leech Coll.; Asia Minor, Lydia, Pontus. Exp. 34-38 millim. Larva. Xlrby, Butt. & Moths, Eur. p. 215 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 92.
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