. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XESIIA. RICHIA. 595 abdomen pale brownish ochreous, the ventral surface with a pink tinge. Fore wing pale ochreous brown tinged with pink: an oblique whitish antemedial line, slightly excurved below costa and angled outwards above inner margin : orbicular and reniform slightly defined by whitish, the former obliriue, elliptical, the latter with its centre more or less tinged with fuscous ; a whitish postmedial line. Fig. 100.—A'estia miniago, (S • \- excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and with a series of black point
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. XESIIA. RICHIA. 595 abdomen pale brownish ochreous, the ventral surface with a pink tinge. Fore wing pale ochreous brown tinged with pink: an oblique whitish antemedial line, slightly excurved below costa and angled outwards above inner margin : orbicular and reniform slightly defined by whitish, the former obliriue, elliptical, the latter with its centre more or less tinged with fuscous ; a whitish postmedial line. Fig. 100.—A'estia miniago, (S • \- excurved from costa to vein 4, then incurved, and with a series of black points on the veins beyond it: an indistinct pale subterminal line slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and excurved at middle, sometimes with slight fuscous points on its inner side. Hind wing white. Ab. 1. Antennae pale brown; fore wing with diffused black medial shade. Ab. 2. variago. Head, thorax, and fore wing darker and irrorated with fuscous. Hah. S. Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll.; Asia ^IInor, Pontus; W. Siberia, Altai; W. Turkestan, Ferghana, Tarbagatai Mts., Issyk-kul; E. Turkestan, Thian-Shiln Mts.; ? E. Siberia. Eccjj. 36-42 millim. Genus RICHIA. Type. Richla, Grote, Can. Ent. xix. p. 44 (18(S7) chortalis. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique, tlie 2iid joint fringed with hair in front, the oid moderate ; Irons smooth ; eyes large, rounded, smooth ; antennaj of male typically minutely serrate and fasciculate; head and thorax clothed with hair and scales, the prothorax with sharp ridge-like crest, the metathorax with slight crest ; tibije strongly spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore wing with reins 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; u obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 shortly stalked or from angle. Sect. I. Antenna; of male minutely sen-ate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing with the ground-colour ochreous. a. Hind wing unifor
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