. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. FOTA.— OXrCNKMIS, 215 Sect. II. Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 from cell. 3827. Fota armata. Foia armata, Qrote, Cat. Eiit. xiv. pp. 175, 181 (1882): Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 183. ? . Head whitish mixed with brown ; neck with some ochreous hair ; thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous and brown ; pectus aud legs white; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing purplish grey sufFused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by two faint oblique striae from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely wave
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. FOTA.— OXrCNKMIS, 215 Sect. II. Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 from cell. 3827. Fota armata. Foia armata, Qrote, Cat. Eiit. xiv. pp. 175, 181 (1882): Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 183. ? . Head whitish mixed with brown ; neck with some ochreous hair ; thorax purplish grey mixed with fuscous and brown ; pectus aud legs white; abdomen ochreous white. Fore wing purplish grey sufFused and irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal line represented by two faint oblique striae from costa; antemedial line indistinct, double, minutely waved to submedian fold, then bent inwards, a diffused black streak in submedian fold from it to post- medial line ; orbicular and reniform whitish defined by black and. F\g. A4l.—Fota armata, ^. }-. their centres slightly by fuscous, the former round, the latter elliptical, a diffused black fascia before and between them ; post- medial line indistinct, strongly bent outwards below costa, minutel}'- dentate to vein 2, then bent inwards, an indistinct whitish sub- terminal line, somewhat excurved below vein 7 and at middle, and crossed by slight black streaks below veins 8, 7, 6;. a terminal series of slight blackish points. Hind wing white, the veins and terminal area suffused with ochreous ; the underside white, the costal area slightly irrorated with brown towards apex. Hab, , Arizona, Nogales, 1 $ . Exp. '62 millim. Genus OXYCNEMIS. Type. Oa'ycwcjMzs, Grote, Can. Ent. xiv. p. 182 (18S2) aduena. Proboscis aborted, small; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, hardly reaching the middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair in front; frons smooth ; eyes largo, round; antennae of male serrate and fasciculate; thorax clothed with rough hair and scales mixed, the prothorax without crest, the nietathorax with large crest formed of large curled scales; tibia} moderately fringed with hair, the fore tibia very short, broadening into a large curved claw on inner side at extrem
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