. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. MEGANEPHRIA. 309 to termen below veins 4, 3, 2 ; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia grey and dark brown. Hind wing fuscous brown ; a alight pale mark ou vein 2 near termen ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia whitish at base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. cinerea. Darker; fore wing with the whole inner area suffused with dark brown. Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Pn/er), 8 $ type and type cinerea. Exp. 50-GO millim. 2476. Meganephria bimaculosa. Noctua himaculos
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. MEGANEPHRIA. 309 to termen below veins 4, 3, 2 ; a fine waved black terminal line; cilia grey and dark brown. Hind wing fuscous brown ; a alight pale mark ou vein 2 near termen ; a fine dark terminal line; cilia whitish at base ; the underside whitish irrorated with brown, a small discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. Ab. 1. cinerea. Darker; fore wing with the whole inner area suffused with dark brown. Hah. Japan, Yokohama (Pn/er), 8 $ type and type cinerea. Exp. 50-GO millim. 2476. Meganephria bimaculosa. Noctua himaculosa, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. p. 856 (1766); Esp. Schniett. iv. pi. 157. f. 5 ; Hiibn. Eur. Scliinett., Noct. f. 32; Dup. L(5p. Fr. vi. p. 378, pi. 96. f. 2 ; Curt. Brit. Ent. pi. 177 ; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 24; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. Head and thorax grey-white irrorated with dark brown; palpi blackish at sides ; frons with black bar; tegulsa with slight black medial line and black tips : patagia edged with black ; tarsi with dark rings ; abdomen grey tinged with red-brown. Fore wing gre3--white tinged in parts with rufous and irrorated with dark brown ; the veins with dark streaks ; a slight dark streak below base of cell; subbasal line double, angled outwards below costa and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line indistinctly double, angled outwards below costa, then somewhat dentate, oblique, angled outwards above inner margin ; claviform large, defined by brown ; orbicular and reniform large, whitish defined by brown,. ^y. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original British Museum (Natural History). Dept. of Zoology; Hampson, George Francis, Sir, 1860-1936. London Printed by order of the Trustees
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