. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 137 b*. Fore wing without costal lobe. 266. Ilema inducta. Lithosia inducta, Wlk. xxxi. 232 (18(i4); Hinpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 4, pi. 143. f. 1 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 87 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 332. cJ . Head and thorax fuscous ; frons whitish ; abdomen black, the basal segments greyish. Fore wing with white fascia on costal area to just beyond middle, with a broad black streak on its basal half; the fringe of scales grey; a diffused blackish medial band, and a similar narrower sub- terminal band. Hind wing pale yellow, with sl
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 137 b*. Fore wing without costal lobe. 266. Ilema inducta. Lithosia inducta, Wlk. xxxi. 232 (18(i4); Hinpsn. 111. Het. viii. p. 4, pi. 143. f. 1 ; id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 87 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 332. cJ . Head and thorax fuscous ; frons whitish ; abdomen black, the basal segments greyish. Fore wing with white fascia on costal area to just beyond middle, with a broad black streak on its basal half; the fringe of scales grey; a diffused blackish medial band, and a similar narrower sub- terminal band. Hind wing pale yellow, with slight fuscous subterminal mark on vein 2. Fore wing with the costal edge black, but A black point at lower angle of cell, the. Fig. 84.—llema inducta, c? 5 . Anal tuft orange no basal broad streak, medial band absent. Fore wing with veins 6, 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10 fi^ee ; 11 anasto- mosing with 12. Hah. NiLGiEis {^\ 1 $ type, (llampson) 1 (5 , 3 5 . J5^^3. 30-36 millim. b-. Hind wing of male witli some rough scaling on basal inner area; fore wing with large tuft and very sliort fringe at base of fold in cell. 267. Ilema signata. Lithosia signata, Wlk. ii. 495 (1854) ; Kirby, Cut. Het. p. 317. Lithosia hreviviacula, Alph. Rom. Mem. ix. p. l.'SO, pi. xiii. f. 5 (1897). Thyscmoptyx directa, Leech, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1899, p. 180. $ . Head, tegulse, and base of patagia pale yellow ; antenuse, tips of patagia, and thorax black; tibia3 and tarsi blackish ; abdomen grey, yellowish towards extremity. Fore wing yellowish grey; the costal area whiter to beyond middle; a prominent round postraedial black spot on costa, and a large round patch rather nearer the base extending from the cell to near inner margin. Hind wing yellow. Underside of fore wing suffused with fuscous, the costal and terminal areas yellow. S with the ground-colour of fore wing much more grey. Ab. 1. hrevimacula. Fore wing with the lower black patch reduced ; the thorax sometimes Please note that these im
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