. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. TIIETOLOPHOIA. 471 1818. Tmetolopliota propria. Leucania propria, Wlk. ix. Ill (1856); Bull. Voy. 'Erebus' & 'Terror,' pi. ix. f. 4 ; Hudson, New Zealand Muths & Butterflies, p. 11, pi. iv. f. 13. Head and thorax ochreous brown with a reddish or olive tinge; tegulae with black and white medial line ; fore and mid tibiae striped â whitish and black; abdomen ochreous brown, tinged with rufous towards extremity or more ochreous. Fore wing pale grey-brown, usually more or less tinged with rufous or sometimes wit
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Supplement. Moths. TIIETOLOPHOIA. 471 1818. Tmetolopliota propria. Leucania propria, Wlk. ix. Ill (1856); Bull. Voy. 'Erebus' & 'Terror,' pi. ix. f. 4 ; Hudson, New Zealand Muths & Butterflies, p. 11, pi. iv. f. 13. Head and thorax ochreous brown with a reddish or olive tinge; tegulae with black and white medial line ; fore and mid tibiae striped â whitish and black; abdomen ochreous brown, tinged with rufous towards extremity or more ochreous. Fore wing pale grey-brown, usually more or less tinged with rufous or sometimes with ochreous ; a prominent black fascia below base of cell to below origin of vein 2; the extremity of median nervure with diffused fuscous on it, with more or less prominent black streak above it and base of vein 4 ;. Fig. 140.â Tmdolophota propria, cJ. \. orbicular and roniform small, greyish, obscurely defined by black, the former round, reduced to a slight black streak representing its lower edge or obsolete ; a postmedial series of black points, bent outwards below costa and oblique below vein 4, met at vein 4 by a more or less prominent triangular dark shade from termeu below apex; a prominent terminal series of black points. Hind wing fuscous brown, or ochreous tinged with fuscous brown, the cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal area slightly tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous; a terminal series of small black lunules. Hah. New Zeal^xd (Earl), 1 c? type, (Eni/s) 1 (S, (Mathew) 1 6, I 2, {J-J'- Walker) 2 J, Marlborough (iSkeUon), 2 J , 1 ? , Blenheim, Mt. Arthur, Alt. Hutt. Exjy. 32-38 millim. *1819. Tmetolophota polygona. (Plate XCIV. fig. 10.) Tmeiolopkota polijgona, Druce, ined. 2 . Head and thorax purplish grey; palpi and sides of frons, a bar above it, and two patches on vertex of head black ; tegulae yellow-brown, with black medial line and purple-grey tips ; pro- thorax and patagia with black patches, thorax with dorsal black stripe ; pectus
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