. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACOSMETIA. 41^ median nervures, then oblique; orbicular and reniform absent; postraedial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, slightly bent out-wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal Jinc indistinct, grey defined on inner side by dark suffusion, slightly Gxcurved below 7 and oblique below vein 3 ; a terminal series of dark stiiaj. Hind wing purplish grey tinged with brown ; tho underside irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot. Ilah. FoEMosA, 1 (S type. Exp. 20 millim. 4093. Acosmetia
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. ACOSMETIA. 41^ median nervures, then oblique; orbicular and reniform absent; postraedial line indistinctly double filled in with grey, slightly bent out-wards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then oblique ; subterminal Jinc indistinct, grey defined on inner side by dark suffusion, slightly Gxcurved below 7 and oblique below vein 3 ; a terminal series of dark stiiaj. Hind wing purplish grey tinged with brown ; tho underside irrorated with brown, a slight discoidal spot. Ilah. FoEMosA, 1 (S type. Exp. 20 millim. 4093. Acosmetia caliginosa. Nociua caliginosa, Hiibn. Eur. Sehmett, Noct. f. 474 (1818); Dup. Lep. Fr., Siippl iii. p. 341, pi. 31. t. 4; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 122 ; , Eur. Sehmett., Noct. f. 435; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 199. AntJwphila litorea, Frr. Neue Beitr. v. p. 1(J3, pi. 479. ff. 1, 2 (1845). Caradrina utagnicolor, Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. Ill, pi. 107, f. 6 (nee Ochs.). Acosmetia aquatilis, Guen. Noct. i. p. 240, pi. 5. f. 2 (1862). Acosmetia tristis, Teich, Stett. ent. Zeit. 1898, p. 29. Head and thorax purplish brown tinged with greyish ; the palpi, frons, and fore legs tinged with fuscous ; abdomen grey irrorated with brown. Fore ^ silky purplish brown thickly irrorated with grey ; antemedial lino indistinct, brown, strongly waved and angled inwards on vein 1 ; stigmata absent ; postmedial line indistinct, brown, interrupted, bent outwards below costa, then with short dark streaks beyond it on the veins, slightly incurved at. Fig. 10S.—Acos7?iciia caliginosa, .(^ }. discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; traces of a pale subterminal line slightly defined by brown on inner side, angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle; a terminal series of slight dark striae ; cilia with a fine dark line near base. Hind wing silky grey suffused with pale red-broAvn ; cilia rather paler with a slight brown line near base ; the underside whitish thickly ir
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