. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. â 6 AECTIABJE. angled on vein 1 ; a wedge-shaped brown mark on costa towards apex; the termiual area with brownish suffusion and fine black. Fig. lO.âZia tactcdis, $. i. streaks on the veins ; a terminal brown line ; cilia grey, with a darker line through them. Hind wing suffused with brown. Hah. N. S. Walbs, Moreton Bay (D/ggles), 1 d" type, Sydney (Darnel), 1 c?, 3 $ , type horridella, Eiy., J 30, § 34 millim, Sect. II. Palpi projecting about the length of head; fore wing short and broad. A. Fore wing w
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. â 6 AECTIABJE. angled on vein 1 ; a wedge-shaped brown mark on costa towards apex; the termiual area with brownish suffusion and fine black. Fig. lO.âZia tactcdis, $. i. streaks on the veins ; a terminal brown line ; cilia grey, with a darker line through them. Hind wing suffused with brown. Hah. N. S. Walbs, Moreton Bay (D/ggles), 1 d" type, Sydney (Darnel), 1 c?, 3 $ , type horridella, Eiy., J 30, § 34 millim, Sect. II. Palpi projecting about the length of head; fore wing short and broad. A. Fore wing with dark triangular patch on costa from base to end of cell acontioides. B. Fore wing with dark triangular patch from medial part of costa to below angle of cell laminafa. C. Fore wing without dark patches ; grey, with a lunulate black spot at upper angle of cell lunisigna. 157. Zia acontioides. Pisara acontioides. Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 118 (18fi2); Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 132, pi. iv. f. 19 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 381. J. Silvery white ; palpi fuscous at sides ; abdomen tinged with fuscous. Fore wing with triangular brown patch on costa, irrorated with leaden silvery scales from base to middle of wing, and with tufts of brown and leaden scales on it near base, at middle and upper angle of cell ; a tuft of white scales at lower angle of W'/^i ^^^^^s %k /^ ^^^^ ' ^ ^^^ brown scales forming '*â " ft\^^^^^:;x> M faint traces of a medial line; tbe â ^ postmedial line angled at vein 6, Fig. 21.â2m acontioides, S â \- formed by bosses of leaden scales, (From Moths Ind. vol. ii.) the area beyond it fuscous except towards costa ; traces of a sub- terminal line with leaden scales on it. Hind wing white, tinged with fuscous towards termen. Hah. Ceylon, Nawalaj)itya (Green), 2 S ; Borneo, Sarawak (Wallace), type t in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 20 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for
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