. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 22 NOC'TUID^. Sect. II. Anteniije of male hipectinate with short, branches ending in a bristle ; fore wing with the ternien slightly angled at vein iJ, then oblique to tornus. A. Fore wing witli the postmedial and terminal areas purplish fusoous, the veins of former streaked with white retis. B. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas rufous caduca. 4315. Gortyna retis. retis, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 198 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 311. Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with blackislj^and pale
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 22 NOC'TUID^. Sect. II. Anteniije of male hipectinate with short, branches ending in a bristle ; fore wing with the ternien slightly angled at vein iJ, then oblique to tornus. A. Fore wing witli the postmedial and terminal areas purplish fusoous, the veins of former streaked with white retis. B. Fore wing with the postmedial and terminal areas rufous caduca. 4315. Gortyna retis. retis, Grote, Can. Ent. xi. p. 198 (1879); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 311. Head and thorax violaceous grey mixed with blackislj^and pale purplish piuk ; palpi and frons blackish ; tarsi black-brown ringed with white; abdomen black-brown mixed with greyish and with sublateral series ot black points. Fore wing black-brown suffused with violaceous grey, the veins with slight pale streaks, veins 4, '6 and veins 2 and 1 beyond postmedial line streaked with v/hile ;. Fig. 4.— Gortijna retis, c?. \. Bubbasal line black, waved, from costa to submedian fold ; diffused oblique black bars across submedian interspaces and above inner margin before the antemedial line, which is indistinctly double, waved, somewhat oblique : claviform faintly defined by black scales ; orbicular and reniform small, with brownish centres defined by black and white annvili 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 postmedial line suffnsed with black ; postmedial line black defined by white on outer side, strongly bent outwards below costa, then formed of small black lunnlts and with slight brown line beyond it, oblique, slijihtly 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 sHghtly defined by white on inner side; cilia chequered blackish and white at tips. Hind wing whitish
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