. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 535 male ciliated ; thorax typically clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax wiih s[)rfading crests; tibiit moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal cresl at base only. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen creniilate, oblique towards tornus ; 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 obsolescenr, from just below middle of discocelUilars ; 6, 7 shortly stal
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 535 male ciliated ; thorax typically clothed with hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax wiih s[)rfading crests; tibiit moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal cresl at base only. Fore wing rather narrow, the termen creniilate, oblique towards tornus ; 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 obsolescenr, from just below middle of discocelUilars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Thorax clothed chiefly with scales. A. Fore wing dark cupreous brown /tetrina. B. Fore wing pale grey-brown didonea. 42G5. Xylomcea Isetrina. Ajxniiea Ueirina, Druce, Biol. C', llet. ii. j). -177, \>\. 'Si. f. -1 (1898). Head and thorax Lrowa mixed with greyish ; pro- and meta-' thorax with paired black spots ; patagia Avith black spots at middle and tips ; pectus grej-; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen grey dorsally suffused with brown. 'Fore wing brown with a cupreous gloss; subbasal line black, oblique, from costa to vein 1, above which it is produced into a slight streak ; antemedial. Fig. 146.—Xyloma'ci l<etrina, J. }. line indistinct, slightly defined by greyish on inner side, angled outwards below costa, then oblique, waved and angled inwards to whitish points on the veins ; claviform narrow, pale brown slight!}' defined by black; orbicular pale red-brown with faint whitish annulus defined by blackish, very oblique elliptical; reniform defined by blackish and with pale red-brown centre defined by blackish, some whitish points on its anntihis at upper and lower edges ; postmedial line very indistinct, double, with some whitish on it at costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, then strongly dentate and produced to whitish points on the veins, very oblique below vein 4; a d
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