. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 449 the area before it pale rufous except towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black. Fig. l'2o.—Britki/!i criiii, (^. {. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) lunules. Hind wing pure white, the costal area tinged with fuscous and in female the terminal area also. Hab. Punjab, Allahabad; Ceylon {Temphton), 2 cJ, 1 $, Trincomalee {Yerhury), 1 S ; Burma, Moulmein {Cleric), 1 $ ; SiNGAPoiiE {Ridley), 1 $ ; Java {Hursfield), 5 c?, 3 $ . 32-46 millim. Larva. Head, first a
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. 449 the area before it pale rufous except towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of small black. Fig. l'2o.—Britki/!i criiii, (^. {. (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) lunules. Hind wing pure white, the costal area tinged with fuscous and in female the terminal area also. Hab. Punjab, Allahabad; Ceylon {Temphton), 2 cJ, 1 $, Trincomalee {Yerhury), 1 S ; Burma, Moulmein {Cleric), 1 $ ; SiNGAPoiiE {Ridley), 1 $ ; Java {Hursfield), 5 c?, 3 $ . 32-46 millim. Larva. Head, first and last somite, and legs yellow ; the rest brown, with dorsal and subdorsal series of j-ellowish-white spots, those on posterior edge of somites rather smaller ; somite 4 without anterior spots and 5 with the dorsal spot only; subdorsal white points on somites 4 to 8 ; lateral and ventral bands each on part of two somites ; wart vi. on somites 4-8 on white spots. Food-plants, Liiiacece. 1792. Erithys encausta. Noctua enoaicsta, Hiibu. Samml. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 392 (1827); Dup. L6p. Fr. vi. p. 78, pi. 86. f. 3 ; Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 291 ; Staud. Cat. Lap. pal. p. 154. Head and thorax flesh-white ; tegulas with black medial line ; prothorax with black patch ; abdomen white, flesh-coloured below. Pore wing white tinged with flesh-colour, leaving the costal area from before middle whiter; antemedial line indistinct, waved, often nearly obsolete, oblique from costa to below cell; claviform some- times slightly defined by black ; orbicular represented by a black streak, or obsolete ; reniform narrow, defined b}^ black ; postmedial line dentate and produced to black points on the veins, bent out- wards below costa and inciirved below vein 4; subterrainal line fuscous, obsolete towards costa, the area before it yellowish except towards costa, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hind wing pure white; female
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