. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TJL0CHLJ5NA. 139 Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 217; Hffm. Eaup. p. 92, pi. 26. f. 4. Pale grey with yellow stigmatal line. Eood-plants : Grasses, feeding at night and hiding during the day in a silken case under- ground. 4. Sect. II. Antenufe of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; wiugs of female partly aborted, the ccsta arched and fringed with hair, the apex rounded ; cilia of both wings very long. *2246. UlocWaena scillse. Heliophobus scUIcb, Chret. Le Nat. ISSS, p. 92; id. Le Nat. 1892,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TJL0CHLJ5NA. 139 Larva. Kirby, Eur. Butt. & Moths, p. 217; Hffm. Eaup. p. 92, pi. 26. f. 4. Pale grey with yellow stigmatal line. Eood-plants : Grasses, feeding at night and hiding during the day in a silken case under- ground. 4. Sect. II. Antenufe of male bipectinate with long branches to apex ; wiugs of female partly aborted, the ccsta arched and fringed with hair, the apex rounded ; cilia of both wings very long. *2246. UlocWaena scillse. Heliophobus scUIcb, Chret. Le Nat. ISSS, p. 92; id. Le Nat. 1892, p. 7; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 177. (S. Head and thorax black with a few grey hairs ; palpi at tips and antennae ochreous ; metathorax with a pair of white points ; pectus with ochreous-white hair; tibiae with some purplish hair ; tarsi fuscous with ochreous rings; abdomen ochreous tinged with fuscous at extremity. Fore wing purplish fuscous, the costal area and inner margin ochreous white on medial area with black streak above latter, the postmedial area purplish red ; the median nervure and veins rising from it and vein 1 streaked with ochreous white on medial area; subbasal line black, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line double, blackish, strongly curved ; clavilbrm fuscous defined by black, large ; orbicular purplish defined by black, round ; reniform ochreous defined by black and with whitish line on discocellulars, angled inwards on median nervure and almost touching the orbicitlar, the cell before and between the stigmata and the area before postmedial line fuscous brown ; postmedial line double, slightly bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and minutely waved, slightly bent outwards to inner margin; subterminal line dark, angled outwards at vein 7, then curved and with dark streaks in the interspaces from it to the terminal series of black lunules : cilia brownish with a darker line through them. Hind wing ochreous suffused wit
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