. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 360 NOCTDIDJi: 2533. Antitype polymita. Isoci'Ua iwlyriuta, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. f. 4; Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. pi. 261 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 417, pi. 99: f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. Noctua Helens, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 20 (1827). S. Head and thorax olive-green mixed with whitish ; tegulte- with slight dark medial line ; patagia edged with white in front and ahove ; crests on pro- and metathorax tipped with white ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with white ; abdom
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 360 NOCTDIDJi: 2533. Antitype polymita. Isoci'Ua iwlyriuta, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 321 (1761); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. f. 4; Frr. Neue Beitr. iii. pi. 261 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 417, pi. 99: f. 1; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 179. Noctua Helens, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 20 (1827). S. Head and thorax olive-green mixed with whitish ; tegulte- with slight dark medial line ; patagia edged with white in front and ahove ; crests on pro- and metathorax tipped with white ; tibiae and tarsi ringed with white ; abdomen grey snffused with olive-green. Pore wing olive-green irrorated with white ; a small white-tipped tuft of scales at base ; subbasal line double filled in with white,, angled inwards in cell and ending at submedian fold ; antemedial line defined by white on inner side, oblique, waved, angled outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform defined by black below and at extremity ; orbicular and reniform with incomplete-. Eig. 119.âAniitype 'polymita, S â white annuli defined by black, the former round, the latter with some white in centre and irregular outline; a dentate medial line- angled outward on median nervure, then oblique; postmedial line defined by white on outer side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate and produced to black points on the veins, incurved below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa; subterminal line- dentate, white defined by small dentate black marks on inner side, slightly angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and incurved in submedian interspace; a terminal series of small black lunules ;. cilia chequered yellowish white and blackish. Hind wing white; the veins tinged with fuscous ; a diffused brownish subterminal band, somewhat dentate at middle; a waved black terminal line ; cilia tinged with brown from apex to vein 2 ; the underside with the costal area irrorated with brown, a small discoidal lunule, a slight postmed
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