. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 44 iSrOCTUID^. excurved to veiu 2, theu erect, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, gi-eyish defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion, slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia with a fine ochreous line at base. Hind wing greyish brown with a faint reddish tinge ; a faint postmedial line from vein 4 to inner margin near toruus, slightly defined by greyish on outer side ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia with a slight ochreous line at bas
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 44 iSrOCTUID^. excurved to veiu 2, theu erect, some pale points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, gi-eyish defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion, slightly excurved at vein 7 and middle ; a fine waved black terminal line ; cilia with a fine ochreous line at base. Hind wing greyish brown with a faint reddish tinge ; a faint postmedial line from vein 4 to inner margin near toruus, slightly defined by greyish on outer side ; a slight dark terminal line ; cilia with a slight ochreous line at base; the underside with slight dark irrora- tion and traces of postmedial line between veins 7 and 3. Hab. Spain, Granada; Ckntr. Italy ; Sicily; (Meade- Waldo), 1 J, 1 $ . Exj)., 6 36, 2 40 millim. Genus STYGIOSTOLA, nov. Type, S. umbratica. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, tlie 2nd joint reaching vertex of head and broadly fringed with hair, the 3rd moderate, porrect; f'rons smooth ; eyes , round ; anteniiiE of male bipectinate with long branches to apex, of female with tufts of scales on the joints; thorax clothed with long hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests; tibia moder- ately fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with rougii hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved, not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen excised at discal fold ; veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 2780. Stygiostola umbratica. Noctua umhratica, Goeze, Beitr. iii. 3. p. 67 (1781); Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 199. mctiM tenehrosa, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. if. 158, 503 (1802); Frr. Neue Schmett. i. pi. 40; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 11, pi. 72. Eusina ferruginea, Steph. 111.
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