. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 22 NorruiDJE. Seit. II. Antenna? of innlp bi|ieclii)!ile willi gliort, brandies ending in a bristle; fore wing with tlie ternien sliglitlv angled al vein iJ, then obliqne to tortuis. A. luirc wing with I he postmcdial and terminal areas pnrplish fuseous, the veins of former streaked with white rctis. B. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas rufous caduca. 4315. Gortyna retis. Eusfrotia re/is, Grote, Can. Ent. si. p. 198 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. yil. Head and thorax violaceous jjrey mixed with blackish and


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 22 NorruiDJE. Seit. II. Antenna? of innlp bi|ieclii)!ile willi gliort, brandies ending in a bristle; fore wing with tlie ternien sliglitlv angled al vein iJ, then obliqne to tortuis. A. luirc wing with I he postmcdial and terminal areas pnrplish fuseous, the veins of former streaked with white rctis. B. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas rufous caduca. 4315. Gortyna retis. Eusfrotia re/is, Grote, Can. Ent. si. p. 198 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. yil. Head and thorax violaceous jjrey mixed with blackish and pale purplisli pink : palpi and fi'ons blackish ; tarsi black-brown ringed with white; abdomen black-brown mixed with greyish and with snblateral series of black points. Fore wing black-browu suffused vith violaceous grey, the veins with slight pale streaks, veins 4, '6 and veins 2 and 1 beyond postmcdial line streaked wiih white ;. Fig. 4.—Goriijna retis, (^. ]. pubbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; diffused oblique black bars across submedian interspaces and above inner margin before the antemcdial line, which is indistinctly double, waved, somewhat oblique : claviforra faintly defined by black scales ; orbicular and reniform small, with brownish centres defined by black and white annuli defined by black, the former oblique elliptical, the latter oblique and angled inwards on median nervure, the area beyond it and the submedian interspace before postmcdial line suffused with black ; postmcdial line black defined by white on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then formed of small black lunuks and with slight brown line beyond it, obli(pie, slightly incurved at discal fold and below vein 3, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterrainal line, white excurved below vein 7 and at middle, then incurved; a terminal series of small black lunules slightly defined by white on inner side; cilia chequered bhickish and white at tips. Hind wing whit


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