. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 164 NOCTUIDJE. red-brown. Hind wing pale golden yellow ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas broadly irrorated with red- brown. Hah. Mexico, Cuernavaca {JL H. Smith), 1 6 type, Durango (Becker), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Eicp. cS 34, $ 36 millim. 0. Palpi of male normal. a. {Lcucocosmia). Vertex of bead of male with a cleft corneous ridge clothed with scales; abdomen clothed with woolly pile ; fore and bind wings witli the basal half clothed \vith woolly hair above. 4512. Elydna reclusa. Progenia recl
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 164 NOCTUIDJE. red-brown. Hind wing pale golden yellow ; the underside yellowish white, the costal and terminal areas broadly irrorated with red- brown. Hah. Mexico, Cuernavaca {JL H. Smith), 1 6 type, Durango (Becker), 1 $ , Godman-Salvin Coll. Eicp. cS 34, $ 36 millim. 0. Palpi of male normal. a. {Lcucocosmia). Vertex of bead of male with a cleft corneous ridge clothed with scales; abdomen clothed with woolly pile ; fore and bind wings witli the basal half clothed \vith woolly hair above. 4512. Elydna reclusa. Progenia reclusa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. p. 185 (18G2); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 264. AmphipwO' agrotoides, Snell. Tijd. v. Ent. 1880, p. 77, pi. 6. f, fi.^ Eadinacra thovacica, Moore, Lep. Oeyl. iii. p. 31, pi. 148. f. 4(1884). Leucocosmia ceres, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 188(), p. o04, pi. 9. f. 10. Caradrina euthusa, Hmpsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 79. pi. 14o. f. 1 (1891). Camdrina heliarcha, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1897, p. 370. Caradrina ^mipunctata, , Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (190(i). Caradrina insignifica, , Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 201 (1906). S. Head and thorax brownish ochreons irrorated with some black scales ; palpi black at sides, whitish in front and at tips ; antennae with black spot on basal joint behind, the shaft blackish ; teguliB black-brown, ochreons white at base and sides; abdomen. "Pl^. 5b.—Elydna reclusa, ^. \. black-brown, the extremity and anal tuft whitish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen whitish. Pore wii:g ochreons tinned with rufous and slightly irrorated with fuscous except on basal area which is thickly clothed with olive-yellow scales ; subbasal line blackish, minutely waved, from costa to submedian fold: antemedial line indistinct, double, slightly bent inwards to costa and obsolete towards inner margin; traces of a minute round orbicular with two black points on its outer edge ; reniform absent- an indistinct diffus
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