. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 148 AKCTIAD^. terminal series of spots, the former with the spots above veins 4 and {i smaller and displaced outwards ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing white, with some ochreous and brown spots on terminal two- thirds of costal area on underside. 5 . Abdomen brown and white ; fore wing with hardly any ochreous irroration. Bab. Colombia, 1 c? , i ? , type t in Coll. Schaus. Exj>., 6 46, 5 52 millim. 1476. Halisidota argentata. Halisidota arqentata, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 129 (1864); Stretch, Zyg. & B


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 148 AKCTIAD^. terminal series of spots, the former with the spots above veins 4 and {i smaller and displaced outwards ; a terminal series of points. Hind wing white, with some ochreous and brown spots on terminal two- thirds of costal area on underside. 5 . Abdomen brown and white ; fore wing with hardly any ochreous irroration. Bab. Colombia, 1 c? , i ? , type t in Coll. Schaus. Exj>., 6 46, 5 52 millim. 1476. Halisidota argentata. Halisidota arqentata, Pack. Proc. Ent. Soc. Philad. iii. p. 129 (1864); Stretch, Zyg. & Bomb. N. Am. p. 13o. pi. 6. f. 12; Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 208. Head and thorax yellowish white, palpi brown except at tips ; antennae reddish brown, tegulae with brown spots; patagia edged with brown, mesothorax with brown spots; legs banded with. Fig. 90.—Halisidota argentata, S • \- brown ; abdomen yellowish white, more orange on dorsum, some sublateral and ventral brown marks. Fore wing dark red-brown, slightly irrorated with white ; some obliquely placed white points at base and a short fascia on inner margin ; five yellowish spots on costa : two antcmedial white spots in submedian interspace, with a point beyond them in cell and a medial spot below the cell; a triangular spot in end of cell, and small spots above and below base of vein 2 and slight marks on discocellulars ; oblique postmedial and subterminal series of spots, the former having the spots above veins 4,3, and inner margin smaller ; a terminal series of small triangular yellowish-white spots. Hind wing yellowish white, with small brown discoidal spot and a spot often bifid at apex; the underside with medial and postmedial spots on costa ; vein 8 represented by two spurs not reaching costa. Hah. Beitish Columbia : , Mountains of California, 1 6 , Crrote Coll. , S 38, $ 60 millim. Subsp. 1. subaljnna, French, Can. Ent. xxii. p. 47(1890); Eirby, Cat. Het, p. 209. Thorax marked with redder brown ; fore


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