. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TEACHEA. 151 iuner edge ; an indistinct curved waved medial line ; postmedial line black strongly defined by violaceous grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line greenish white, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, excurved at middle and strongly incurved in submedian interspace; a terminal series of black lunules; cilia fuscous and whitish intersected with white and with blackish lines at middle and tips. Hind wing
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. TEACHEA. 151 iuner edge ; an indistinct curved waved medial line ; postmedial line black strongly defined by violaceous grey on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, very oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line greenish white, angled outwards at veins 7, 6, excurved at middle and strongly incurved in submedian interspace; a terminal series of black lunules; cilia fuscous and whitish intersected with white and with blackish lines at middle and tips. Hind wing ochreous whitish. suffused with brown, the terminal area fuscous brown ; cilia ochreous white with a dark line near base ; the underside whitish, the costal area irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal spot and curved postmedial line with diffused brown band beyond it. Ab. 1. similis. Fore wing irrorated with olive-green and spotted with ochreous-yellow. Ab. 2. "Without any green markings. Hah. Beitain, Leech Coll. ; Feancb, Sand Coll.; Germany, Zeller and Leech Colls.; Austria ; Hungary ; Switzerland, Trey Coll.; Spain, Bilboa; Italy ; Balkan States ; Scandinavia ; Russia, Livonia, Zeller Coll.; Armenia ; Asia Minor, Bithynia ; ? W. Turk- estan, Turcomania; E. Siberia, Ussuri; Japan, Oiwake (Pryer), 1 2 , Gifu (Pryer), 1 $ , Nikko (/to), 1 $ , Yokohama {Jonas, Maries, Pryer), 2 cT , 3 2 , type gnoma. Exp. 42-56 millim. Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 128 ; Barrett, Lep. Brit. v. p. 43, pi. 189. f. 3. Green or reddish brown ; dorsal and subdorsal lines darker, inter- rupted, dotted with white ; spiracular line pinkish, sometimes dark- edged above, the margins sometimes whiter ; head pale ochreous. Food-plants : Atriplex, Rumecc, Polygonum, &c. 8-9. 2901. Trachea auriplena. Trachea atriflicis, Koll. Hiigel's Kaschmir. iv. p, 479 (ncc Linn.). Eurois aioriplena, Wlk. xi. 557 (1867); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 37, pi. 148. f. 2; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 214. Hadenalucia, Butl.
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