. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 592 NOCTTTIDiE. below veius 4 and 3, terminating at vein 2; a terminal series of black strise slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia Hind wing uniform black-brown; the underside with the termen greyish with terminal series of black striee. Huh, , Morida {Douhleday), '6 S type. Exp. 26- 28 millim. Genus FAGITANA. Type. • Fagitana, Wlk. xxxii. 645 (1865) littera. Fseicdolimacodes, Grote, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1874, p. 212 littera. Virgo, Staud. Eoin. Mem. vi. p. 467 (1892) datanidia. Proboscis fu
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 592 NOCTTTIDiE. below veius 4 and 3, terminating at vein 2; a terminal series of black strise slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia Hind wing uniform black-brown; the underside with the termen greyish with terminal series of black striee. Huh, , Morida {Douhleday), '6 S type. Exp. 26- 28 millim. Genus FAGITANA. Type. • Fagitana, Wlk. xxxii. 645 (1865) littera. Fseicdolimacodes, Grote, Pr. Ac. Philad. 1874, p. 212 littera. Virgo, Staud. Eoin. Mem. vi. p. 467 (1892) datanidia. Proboscis fully developed; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint; reacliing vertex of head and moderately fringed vvitli scales in front, the 3rd rather long; frons smooth; eyes large, round; antennse of male serrate; thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without crests ; tibia moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen witli dorsal crests on basal segments. Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. A. Fore wing with the reniform represented by a white bar bent inwards on median nervure littera. B. Fore wing with the renifurm represented by a rufous bar defined on each side by pink datanidia. 3461. Fagitana littera. Leiicania littera, Guen. Noct. i. p. 71 (1852); Grote, 111. Essay, p. 41; Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 356. Fatigana liwidata, Wlk. xxxii. 645 (1865). Pseudolimacodes niveicostams, Grote, Proc. Ac. K"at. Sci. Philad. 1874, p. 212. Head bright nifous; antennse, thorax, and abdomen whitish tinged with rufous. Fore wing whitish tinged with rufous, the costal half to beyond the cell, a diffused medial band, and the terminal area bright rufous leaving
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