. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 318 jioctvixtM. 24S.'). Agriopis aprilina. yortua npriliiia, Linn. Svnt. Nat. x. p. .""(H (17M); E«p. Solimctt. iv. pi. lis. ir. ;J; IJrit. Knt., llnust. iii. p. •^'i; Slaud. Cat. ), pi»l. p. ISJ. Nortun , Scliiff. Wipn. Vn!. p. 70 (177C); Uiibn. Eur. Scbmctt., Noct. f. 71 ; Diip. I/'p. Vr. vi. p. ;i(i.'», pi. 95. f. 5. Head and thorax whiti'^h suffused with palo bluo-grccn or olivc- preon ; sides of and 2nd joints of ])alpi and frons black ; antenna? black annulate with white ; tcpu
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 318 jioctvixtM. 24S.'). Agriopis aprilina. yortua npriliiia, Linn. Svnt. Nat. x. p. .""(H (17M); E«p. Solimctt. iv. pi. lis. ir. ;J; IJrit. Knt., llnust. iii. p. •^'i; Slaud. Cat. ), pi»l. p. ISJ. Nortun , Scliiff. Wipn. Vn!. p. 70 (177C); Uiibn. Eur. Scbmctt., Noct. f. 71 ; Diip. I/'p. Vr. vi. p. ;i(i.'», pi. 95. f. 5. Head and thorax whiti'^h suffused with palo bluo-grccn or olivc- preon ; sides of and 2nd joints of ])alpi and frons black ; antenna? black annulate with white ; tcpula) with black spots at bttso of centre and sides and strong black terminal band ; j)ata;ria with black outer edpes ; raeso- and inetathorax with paired black marks; pectus clothed with white and brown hair; leps white with black ; abdomen whitish irrorated and suffused with black, the dorsal crests blackish. Fore winp white suffused with pule bluc-grcen or olive-preen, rarely largely .suffused with black, es()ecially on inner basal and median areas; a waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold, .slight in cell and followed by a striga from and coll, a patch below cell and short fascia above inner margin; a waved black aiitemedial line defined by white on inner side, double at costa, interrupted below costa and angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform defined by black except above. Fig. 104.—AgriopU aprilina, ^J. and with black streak from its lower extremity to postmedial line ; orbicular and reniform large, white with slight greenish centres and defined by black, the former ellii)tical, usually open above and bolow, the latter usually open al>ove, produced above and below and extending well bi-low cell; a strong waved black medial line ; post- nu'dial line black defined by white on outer side, double at costa or tliroughout. bent outwards ami usually interrupted lielow costa, then di-ntate and jiroduced to black and white ])oints on the veins,
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