. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 494 NOCTUID.'E. rafons, the voniral surface deep red-brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown and slightly tinged with purple; subbasal line double, minutely waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, erect, sinuous; medial area deep red-brown except towards costa; claviform represented by a black point at extremity; orbi- cular and reniform pale purplish defined at sides hj black-brown, oblique bar-shaped, conjoined by a fascia below and forming a broad V-shaped mark; postmedial line double,
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 494 NOCTUID.'E. rafons, the voniral surface deep red-brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with red-brown and slightly tinged with purple; subbasal line double, minutely waved, from costa to vein 1; antemedial line double, erect, sinuous; medial area deep red-brown except towards costa; claviform represented by a black point at extremity; orbi- cular and reniform pale purplish defined at sides hj black-brown, oblique bar-shaped, conjoined by a fascia below and forming a broad V-shaped mark; postmedial line double, strongly bent outwards below costa, slightly incurved to above vein 4, then oblique sinuous, the inner line bent inwards to lower angle of cell; the outer indistinct, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line indistinct, pale, slightly defined by brown on inner side and strongly by black- brown between veins 7 and 3, slightly angled outwards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3; a fine sinuous brown terminal line; cilia red-brown with a fine white line at base. Hind wing ochreous white suffused with red-brown, the veins brownish with a darker streak on vein 2; indistinct sinuous postmedial and subterminal lines ; a fine brown terminal line ; cilia red-brown with a fine white line at base; the underside ochreous white, the costal area sutFused with rufous, a curved red-brown postmedial line. Ilab. SiicHiM {Pilcher), 1 J type. Exji. 36 millim. Sect. II. Antennte of male serrate and fasciculate. A. Fore wing without pale spot below orbicular heatrix. B. Fore wing with pale spot below orbicular costalis. 3354. Clmtaplia beatrix. miogopJiora heatriv, Eutl. A. M. N. H. (.5) i. p. 193 (1878); id. 111. Het. B.' M. iii. p. 16, pi. 44. f. 12; Staud. Gat. Lep. pal. p. 185. Fhlogcyphora fallens, Oberth. Diag. Lep. Askold. p. 14 (187U); id. Et. Ent. V. p. 78, pi. 3. f. 3. Head and thorax ochreous tinged with reddish brown ; palpi pale crimson-red; tegulse with whitish line a
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