. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 20Q :. of points on each somite brownish ; a brown stij^matal line emittinj^ lateral bands on 10th and 11th somites. Food-plants : Glycine and Walnut. The larva reposes with its back hunched, the 1st pair of prolegs smaller than the others. Genus ANDREUSIA. Andrewsia, Grote, New Check-List, p. 41 (1882) .. Type. messalina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to Tertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd joint short; frons smooth, with slight ridge of hair; eyes large, round; an
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 20Q :. of points on each somite brownish ; a brown stij^matal line emittinj^ lateral bands on 10th and 11th somites. Food-plants : Glycine and Walnut. The larva reposes with its back hunched, the 1st pair of prolegs smaller than the others. Genus ANDREUSIA. Andrewsia, Grote, New Check-List, p. 41 (1882) .. Type. messalina. Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to Tertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd joint short; frons smooth, with slight ridge of hair; eyes large, round; antennte of male ciliated; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibite moderately fringed with hair, the raid tibiae spined, the hind tibiae spined between the medial and terminal pairs of spurs, the mid tibiae of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and hardly crenu- late ; 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 cell nearly half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 5 fully developed from just above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 7326. Andreusia messalina. Catocala messalma, G-uen. Noct. iii. p. 107 (1852); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 330. Catocala helfragiana, Harvey, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. ii. p. 281 (1875). \ Catocala jocasta, Streck. Lep. Rhop. & Het. p. 107 (1875).. Fig. 9.—Andreusia messalina, c?. \. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint blackish towards extremity ; sides of frons blackish; tarsi blackish with pale rings ; abdomen grey, dorsally tinged with. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations
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