. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 472 n-octuim:. folds : a terminal series of slight dark striae; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing dark olive-brown suffused with grey espe- ciall)'on terminal half; rather diffused dark medial and postmedial lines ; cilia dark brown at base, grey at tips ; the underside greyer, the medial line oblique and diffused, traces of two postmedial Fig. 228.—Axenus arvalis, cJ. }. Ab. 1. ochracea. Head and thorax cljothed chiefly with fulvous hair; fore wing with a cupreous tinge. Ab. 2. ampla. Wings with the grey mark


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 472 n-octuim:. folds : a terminal series of slight dark striae; cilia with a dark line near base. Hind wing dark olive-brown suffused with grey espe- ciall)'on terminal half; rather diffused dark medial and postmedial lines ; cilia dark brown at base, grey at tips ; the underside greyer, the medial line oblique and diffused, traces of two postmedial Fig. 228.—Axenus arvalis, cJ. }. Ab. 1. ochracea. Head and thorax cljothed chiefly with fulvous hair; fore wing with a cupreous tinge. Ab. 2. ampla. Wings with the grey markings more or less completely obsolete except the subterminal line. Bah. , Oregon, 2 $ , llouge E. ( Wahi>ifj7tam), 12 c? , 2 $ , Grant Co. (Wahinglmm), 2 $ , Colorado, California, 3 d, 9 ? . Eajj. 20-24 millim. Genus ANNAPHILA. Tvpe. Annaphila, Gi'ute, Bull. Buff. Soc. Nat. Sci. i. p. 149 (1873) diva. Proboscis fully developed ; porrect to just beyond frons and clotbed •aith long hair; frons with rounded prominence with corneous jalate below it ; eyes small, elliptical; antenna of male ciliated; thorax clothed with rough scales and hair and without crests; tibiae fringed with long liair ; abdomen .."itliout crests and with lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing sbort and broad, "^he apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not creuuiate ; veins '3 and ij ^i-om near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole: 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 auastomofimg with the cell near base only. A. Hind wing orange. a. Hind wing with the basal and inner areas dark, without subbasal line. «i. Hind wing without discoidal black spot arvalis. b^. Hind wing with discoidal black spot. a-. Hind wing with more or less developed postmedial line da/i isiica, b-. Hind wing without postmedial line. Fore wing without diiiused white


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